Jean-Baptiste Serrated roller

Jean-Baptiste Serrated roller , baron of Morangiès, born with the Farmhouse, district of Brioude (Haute-Loire), in November 1758, military French.

It entered like junior to the Régiment by Languedoc the June 15th 1775, and became second lieutenant to the same body the August 27th 1778.

Lieutenant the December 29th 1785, it was named captain in the regiment of the the Saar, become 51e the January 12th 1792.

He made the campaigns of 1792, years II, III and IV, with the Armée with Italy, and ordered as captain and provisional major the 1st battalion forming the avant-garde of division Masséna. Serrated roller accepted a shot to the Siège of Milan.

It was distinguished on several occasions by its bravery, and was made major on the battle field by the general-in-chief Napoleon Bonaparte, to the Bataille of Caldiero in the year V. With the Affaire of Brescia, after wonders of value, it fell to the capacity from the Austrians. Exchanged, it passed in Suisse, always ordering a pomegranate battalion of the avant-garde, under the orders of the general Pigeon.

Appointed chief of the 18th half-brigade of line, it embarked with Bonaparte for the Egypt, and made all the campaigns of Orient, until the re-entry of the army in France. Serrated roller showed a great intrepidity in the combat which the French had to support.

With the seat of Saint-Jean-in Acre, it accepted a shot; with the Battle of Aboukir, a ball crashed to pieces the right-hand man to him; with the Bataille of Alexandria a new shot reached it with the left arm.

The general-in-chief of the armed with the East raised it with the Brigadier general rank of the 7 floréal according to. Having been confirmed by decree of the 9 frimaire year X, it took the command of the department of the the Low-Alps (the 8th military division), and was registered on the table of the general officers by decree of the 3 germinal year XL

Named member and ordering Legion of honor the 19 frimaire and 23 meadow year XII, the Molette general passed to the command of Genoa the 29 messidor year XIII.

In 1808, it ordered the Département of Genoa and the Golfe of Spezzia. In 1812, the government called it with the head of the national troops stationed with Paris.

Created Baron of the Empire in 1813, it took the command of the Département of Oise, and again that of Genoa the November 25th; it left this station in consequence of the convention concluded by Lord Benting and the major general Frésia, the April 21st 1814. The 26, it was called with the command as a chief of the troops of the 28e military division at the time of their re-entry in France.

Louis XVIII created it Chevalier of Saint-Louis, and employed it in the 8th military division, in, placing at the disposal of the marshal Masséna; this marshal named Molette, the November 7th, ordering Arrondissement of Draguignan (Var); he continued to fulfill the same functions until June 1st 1815, time to which the lieutenant-general Verdier called it with Marseilles to be charged with the organization of the national guards of the 8th military division to replace the general Sheep-Duvernet.

In 1815, the general baron de Morangiès was named, by the marshal Brune, commander-in-chief of the three battalions of elite of the VAr and the the Low-Alps, of the reprocessed battalions of the Isere and the Rhone delta, and the national guard of Toulon: these various bodies having been laid off the July 31st, itself obtained its retirement the September 4th according to. He died the May 21st 1827.

He is registered under the name of Morangiès on the Triumphal arch of the Star.

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