Jacques Casimir Jouan

Jacques Casimir Jouan , (born the March 4th 1767 with Saint-Christophe-of-Jib close to Cherbourg, deceased the March 7th 1847), Brigadier.

Military career

He enlists the October 25th 1791 in the 2nd battalion of the English Channel, where he is made lieutenant pomegranates. He becomes Capitaine the November 7th 1793 and passes in the half-brigade formed with the battalion Allier. He enters then the 27e half-brigade of line.

The April 20th 1807, it becomes Major, employed in the division of pomegranates under the orders of the general Oudinot until February 1809. It enters the imperial guard the August 20th 1810 and becomes ordering 7th regiment of acrobats, the March 28th 1813. The May 26th according to, it and made colonel-major, ordering the 1st regiment of the same weapon, and brigadier general on October 1st.

Since its service entrance, until this Jouan time had made the campaigns of 1792 and 1793 with the armies of the the Rhine, the the Moselle, and the Northern , and those of 1794 and 1795 with the armies of Western and the coasts of the Ocean. It had embarked the December 15th 1796, on board the frigate the Happiness , belonging to the forwarding of Ireland. It had then been used with the armies of the the Danube and the the Rhine as 1799 with 1801; in the interior of France in 1802; in Helvétie in 1803; in the interior in 1803 and part of 1805; and with the army of the Northern the remainder of the same year. It had made the campaigns of Prussia, of Poland in 1806 and 1807; those of the Large army of Germany in 1808 and 1809; those of Spain in 1810 and 1811; and finally those of 1812 and 1813 with the Large army of Germany.

Feat of arms

It had been with many combat and battles, and in particular those of Valmy, Mount-Pellingen, of Hombourg, Double-deckers, of Landshut, Lannoy, Tourcoing, Lens, Templeuve, of Roubaix, etc, etc; with the conquète of Holland; with the blockade of Ulm; with the battles of Hohenlinden, Iéna and of Ostrołęka; with the head office of Dantzig; with the combat of Holsberg; with the battles of Friedland, Eckmühl, Ratisbon, Essling, Wagram, Bautzen, Dresden. It had been also distinguished in several combat delivered in Spain to that from Aranda-of-Duero.

It had been wounded of a glare of obut to the left hip, with the Bataille of Valmy, the September 20th 1792; of a shot to the head, in Bavaria in 1800; of a ball to the left arm, the Battle of Iéna, the October 14th 1806; of a blow of grapeshot to the left thigh, with the Battle of Wagram, where it had 3 horses killed under him, the July 6th 1809; and finally it had the left arm carried by a ball of gun, with the Bataille of Dresden, the August 26th 1813, after having forced and having crossed the passage of the door of Plauen, with the head of division Dumoustier. This last wound having obliged Jouan to leave the regular army, it was named the December 18th, ordering Département of Léman and brigade of Geneva. By arrété of the senator count de Saint-Vallier, extraordinary government commissioner, on January 21st 1814, the Jouan general was in charge of the provisioning and the défence of the fortified towns of the Hautes-Alpes, but this order having arrived him tardily to Nancy, where it was then, it could not arrive at the station that one had assigned to him, before the enemies who had crossed the Suisse to go there. It was called, by order of the May 18th 1814, at commandemant department of the Drome (the 7th military division) and preserved this employment until the July 28th according to, and was put at the half-pay of nonactivity, on September 1st of the same year. Given in activity, by order of the 15 and April 25th 1815, it had the command of the Département of Ardeche of the May 4th to the August 9th, date on which it returned in half-pay. It was definitively allowed with the retirement, like amputee, on July 1st 1818

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