Jean-Baptiste de Caux de Blacquetot
Jean-Baptiste de Caux de Blacquetot , lieutenant-general of the genious, adviser of State, minister, Commander of Saint-Louis and the Legion of honor, born with Douai the March 23rd 1773, is a French general.
Raise Collège of Juilly, it entered second lieutenant the weapon of the genius on March 1st 1793; joined in several campaigns the glory of the armies of the the Ardennes, the the Rhine and the Rhine-and-Moselle. It was distinguished with the engagements from Derbach, of Dillingen, with the Bataille of Meresheim and the Passage of the Danube, with the businesses of Korich and Bourgrieden.
Major in 1799 by its talents and its bravery, it was charged, by Moreau to regulate, in.liaison.with the Count de Bubna, the conditions of the armistice in the places of Ulm, Ingolstadt and Philisbourg, occupied by the Austrians. It was employed successively with the Armée with the coasts of the Ocean, with the Large army and the reserve army in 1806, where it fulfills the functions of chief of staff of the genious.
In 1807, it directed to the ministry for the war and the material personnel offices of the imperial body of the genius.
It was one of the senior officers whose skill ruined the forwarding of the English Walcheren. Returned with the ministry, it had obtained in 1813 there the title of baron and the rank of colonel.
During the invasion, it was charged by the Duc with Richelieu with regulating with Wellington the distribution of the foreign troops on the territory. To put terminals at vexations and requirements which exceeded the right of the winner, it made establish French senior officers near the various chiefs of the occupying army.
Director of military operations and the gendarmerie, and to advise State in 1817, it was Brigadier since the April 20th 1814. Viscount and commander of Saint-Louis in 1817, lieutenant-general the July 30th 1823, it had always exerted with the ministry for the war the high positions before receiving this wallet; he was minister, of the January 21st 1828 with the August 8th 1829. He created a superior council of the war under the presidency of the Dauphin. He is named Pair France in 1832.
Jean-Baptiste de Caux de Blacquetot died in August 1845 at the 70 years age.
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