Jacques-Gervais Subervie

Jacques-Gervais Subervie was a Général French which was useful under the Révolution and the Empire. It was born with Lectoure on September 1st 1776 and died the March 10th 1856, of natural causes.

States of service

It was initially, like many officers of the Empire, a volunteer of 1792 and was used in the armies of the Pyrenees and Italy.

It entered to the service of the army the July 23rd 1793, and made with distinction all the campaigns which brought treated Campo-Formio, of Lunéville and Tilsitt.

In 1797, it became aide-de-camp of Lannes and made with him the Campagne of Egypt.

Major in 1803, it was promoted colonel of hunters after his brilliant led to Ulm and Austerlitz.

The May 27th 1807, it was named officer of the Légion of honor.

After having made the countryside of Prussia, it was transferred in Spain in 1808. Colonel of the 10th regiment of hunters with horse, it made with the head of this regiment the campaigns of 1808, 1809, 1810 and 1811 in Spain.

The March 21st 1809, it continued the rear-guard of the general Cuesta, not ceasing charging it and sabring it during more than one mile on the main road of Truxillo. Its impetuosity failed to become to him disastrous, because, wrapped of all shares in the wooded hills where the enemy had placed himself in ambush, it had its safety and that of its regiment only with coolness and the intrepidity with which it resisted forces seven times more, from which it manages to be released.

In 1810 and 1811, it contributed to the dispersion of the English army corps of the general Blacke, in the kingdom of Murcie, and was quoted among the senior officers who were distinguished particularly during this countryside, in particular with the seats of various places and the battle of Sagonie. Its actions were worth to him the title of Baron d' Empire and the Brigadier general rank of .

Named brigadier general, it made the countryside of 1812 in Russia. The July 4th, it charged division with the general Korf and rejected it on the Desna, after him to have made undergo a loss of 200 prisoners. It was wounded with the Moskova. One finds it with the combat of Wethan, during the program of Saxony.

In 1814, it fought with Montereau, Champaubert, Brienne, and was wounded during the defense of Paris. It became Major general.

The king named it knight of the royal and military Ordre of Saint-Louis, and the July 23rd, lieutenant-general of the armies.

In 1815, during the Hundred Days, it ordered with the army of North a division of light cavalry, and fought with Ligny and Waterloo the June 16th and June 18th.

It was put of availability as of the return of the Bourbons and was put at the retirement in 1825.

The revolution of 1830 reinstated it in the army: it ordered the first military division, then was general inspector of the cavalry .

Elected official appointed in 1834, it was constantly re-elected until in 1848, except between 1839 and 1842, and belonged to the liberal opposition.

After the revolution of February 1848, he became Minister for the war of the provisional government, but resigned on March 19th, dates to which he was appointed large chancellor of the Legion of honor. With the elections with Constituent, it was selected like republican deputy by the department of Eure-et-Loir and was re-elected with the Legislative one.

As of its election with the presidency of the Republic, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte drew aside it from the large chancellery of the Legion of honor.

Also, after the coup d'etat of December 2nd, Subervie withdrew public life and died in 1856.

External bonds

Dictionaries of the generals of the empire.
Site Napoléonempiregloire.free
Napoleonic-officers.net Site (in English).

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