Henri François Delaborde

Henri François Delaborde , wire of a Baker, born with Dijon (Coast-with Or), the December 21st 1764, and died in Paris on February 3rd, 1833, is a general of the French revolution.

Revolution

He made his studies with the college of Dijon. He had hardly finished them, when he engaged in the army: he made a career slowed down by his state; not being noble, he had become warrant officer in 1789. In 1792, it entered the 1st battalion of the volunteers of the Coast-with Or, was elected lieutenant of its company, and went with its body to the army which ordered Fayette. The first time that it was distinguished, it was the June 3rd, with the combat of Glisuelle, close to Maubeuge, where, during the action, it replaced its commander who had just been killed.

The August 23rd of the same year, it refused to sign the capitulation of Longwy, that its inhabitants refused to defend, and its protest against this act of pusillanimity was inserted the September 7th in the 2nd bulletin of the national Convention.

The following year, it was with the combat of Ruzabern (May 17th 1793), after which its battalion got under way to join the Armée with the Eastern Pyrenees. Carteaux, that Convention had charged with subjecting the Marseillais revolted in consequence of the events of the May 31st, retained it and sent it against the rebels. Delaborde reached them and put them in full rout at the village of Lépin, close to Aix-en-Provence.

Named some time after, Brigadier general and governor of the Corsica , it did not go to this destination; Dugommier having entrusted the command of Ve to him division of the army in front of Toulon, it contributed to the taken this city by removing the fortified camp from the English.

Arrived in the Year II at the Armed with the Pyrenees, it seized, the 7 Thermidor, of the fears S of Biviata and of Vera, located on the mountains which surround the Bidassoa, and, the 14 of the same month, in.liaison.with Moncey, it were made main of Biva, Beriat and Aya; then, both, by a bold walk, turned the Spanish camp of Saint-Martial.

The 26 Vendémiaire Year III, it beat the Filanghieri general completely, and seized the valley of Roncevaux, where the lieutenants of Charlemagne were demolished. From this business, the Delaborde general ordered famous the infernal column, made up of troops come from the the Vendée. After the combat of Bergara, delivered the 8 Frimaire year III, it passed to the Armée with the Rhine-and-Moselle, and, in Thermidor year IV, it crossed the the Rhine to Neuf-Brisach, where the inhabitants testified to him their recognition for the order and the discipline which it had known to maintain in its troops; then it occupied the Brisgau and took possession of the frontier towns given up by the Imperial ones.

Consulate and Empire

In year VIII, promoted Major general, it occupied the line ranging between Oggersheim and Germersheim.

With the business of the 25 brumaire, it attacked the enemy in front of Philisbourg, removed 5 guns to him and made him 1.000 prisoners. In the same year, after the Peace of Lunéville, it was named governor of the 3rd military division and there restores the order and the discipline.

The 19 frimaire year XII, the Delaborde general, who ordered the 13th military division then, was included/understood in the appointment of the members of the Légion of honor, and, the 25 meadow following, it accepted the major's brevet of the order, then still, in year XIII, the 4 vendémiaire, it was named large officer, after, to have made, with Rennes, the distribution of the eagles of honor granted to the officers and soldiers of his division.

Towards the end of 1807, the Delaborde general returned in the active service, and took share with the the Second forwarding of Portugal in 1809.

In April 1809, the general Freyre, ordering the Portuguese troops, having been massacred, like its staff, to be itself withdrawn in front of the army of the marshal Soult, as its instructions prescribed to him, an officer hanovrien, the baron d' Ében, was impromptu general and was prepared to fight battle to obey the requirements of its own soldiers; but the Soult marshal did not leave him time of them, and the March 20th in the morning attacked it; the center of the army was formed of the division of the Delaborde general. To the signal given by a battery placed on the face of the line, Delaborde division went the weapon to the arm on the Portuguese, without counteracting their fire. Intimidated by this confidence, the Portuguese dispersed and escaped, the Delaborde general continued them, as well as the division of dragons of the general Lorge, and made a horrible butchery of it. This continuation continued up to two miles with Braga. The French seized this place, of artillery of the enemy, his luggage; of its ammunition, and several flags. The 29 of the same month, Delaborde division removed several fears S and seized 50 parts of gun.

Junot entrusted to the Delaborde general the command of the 1st division which occupied Lisbon the December 2nd, and appointed it then governor of this capital. The Portuguese stimulated by the English and of the bands of Spanish insurrectionists, raised in 1808, and the August 3rd an English army corps unloaded with Figuières, was put moving and advanced on Lisbon. As soon as Junot was informed by it, it gave the command of the city to the general Travot, and made leave the general Delaborde with 2 battalions the 70e regiment, 150 hunters of the 26 {{E}} and 5 parts of gun. The purpose of these troops, reinforced with Obidds and Barge, were to slow down progress of the enemy and to recognize the ground suitable for a general engagement; Delaborde having learned that the English orders by sir Arthur Welesley, since Lord Wellington, occupied Lecrias, gave an opinion the August 14th in front of the village of Rblica. The following day the English began the attack and were pushed back. Incomes two days afterwards, Delaborde, wounded as of the beginning of Taction and that it had to oppose to nearly 4.000 attackers only 1.900 men, fought during five hours with advantage; but not receiving from the general Loison the help that it expected some, it operated its retirement, in good order. This feat of arms gave a new glare to the reputation already so brilliant of the Delaborde general who, this same year was high with the dignity of count.

Passed then under the orders of the duke of Dalmatie, it was distinguished again with the Bataille from Carvalno-da Este, like with the catch of Oporto. After the retirement of Portugal, during which the provisions which it took with the combat of Vimeiro were judged a masterpiece of tactic, it returned in France where it remained until in 1812. Then it passed to the army of Russia and took the command of a division of the body of the duke of Trévise. On its return, it was named governor of the Château of Compiegne, and in 1813 Grand Cross of the Ordre of the Meeting.

In 1814, it ordered the two subdivisions of Toulouse.

First Restoration and Hundred Days

The Delaborde general adhered to the changes which followed the Abdication of Fontainebleau, lost his place of governor of Compiegne, of compensation whose the king granted 10.000 francs of pension to him, named it, the October 24th, Chevalier of Saint-Louis, and preserved it in its divisional command. He was there with the March 20th 1815 more; but it sent its adhesion to the re-establishment of the Empire only the April 4th.

In a report/ratio which he addressed to the Minister for the war, he explained this late tender by the obstacles which the presence of the baron de Vitrolles erected to him, police chief of the king, announcing that he had just put it in a state of arrest. The Emperor, who did not doubt with reason of the honesty of the count Delaborde, attached it to his person in the capacity as Chambellan, and named it, the June 2nd 1815, Pair of France and governor of divisions of the West.

Restoration

Included/understood in the list of proscription of the July 24th 1815, it was put in judgment at September of the same year. Mrs Delaborde published a justifying report, and its lawyer, among his means of defense, emphasized an ambiguity which the members of the council hastened to adopt. The ordinance of the July 24th carried Laborde, while the general named Delaborde. They declared it not culprit.

Since this time, the count Delaborde did not take part of anything in the public affairs.

He died the February 3rd 1833. Its name is registered on the Triumphal arch of the Star, where it was placed at the west coast.

Family

Cousin of Junot, brother-in-law of Achilles Guillaume, father of Jules Delaborde and Henri Delaborde, his last daughter married the son of Sophie Gail and his little girl the doctor Etienne Lancereaux

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