Jean-François Henriod

Jean-François Henriod , born the October 21st 1763 with Larivière (old Department of Léman), is a French soldier.

Biography

He entered like soldier the October 12th 1782 the regiment of Berwick.

Corporal the September 9th 1783, quartermaster sergeant the January 21st 1784, quartermaster-sergeant the July 24th 1791, second lieutenant the September 7th according to, lieutenant the November 15th 1792, and captain executive officer the July 5th 1793, it made all the campaigns of freedom, 1792 at year IX. with the armies of the the Rhine and England.

In year II, it passed with the 1st battalion of 8th of infantry in the 159e half-brigade of battle, become 10th of line to the organization of year IV, and was named major the 19 messidor year III.

During the Retirement of Mainz, in year IV, its battalion charged to protect the retirement from division with the general Renaud in the throats under Tripstadt, was wrapped by three battalions of Austrian pomegranates and a body of emigrants.

At once, it forms it in tight column and lance on the enemy a mass of riflemen charged to attack it on all the points ; making volte-face and rejoining its riflemen, it melts on the center of the Austrian battalions, collapses and reverses all that is opposed to its passage, removes 156 prisoners, and joined with one mile from there, with the Kaiskop, the division of which it covered the derrières.

It assisted the same year with the Siège of Kehl, and was wounded there of a shot.

In the year V, during the great retirement of the Armed with the Rhine, Henriod, with a body of 3.000 men whom the generals Moreau and Desaix had entrusted to him, swept the Val of Saint-Pierre, in the Black Forest, and held in failure, in that of Kentzig, the enemy general Neuendorf, who, with the head of a body of 25 000 combatants, awaited the French Army, while this one slipped by Donescheim and emerged in the Brisgau by the Val of Hell.

Thus, during six days, without testing significant losses, it intercepted any communication with the inhabitants, misled the enemy by spies, and badgered it night and day in the wooded and rocky positions which it occupied on Triberg and Horneberg.

Passed with its rank in the 65e half-brigade of line the 19 nivôse year XI, it was used for the Armée with Hanover until the end with year XIII.

Major of the 100e regiment of infantry of line, the 30 frimaire year XII, and member of the Legion of honor the 4 germinal following, it made the campaigns of Austria, Prussia and Poland, of year XIV with 1807, with the Large army.

20 brumaire year XIV, with Diernestein, division Gazan, strong of 4 000 men, and with whom the marshal Mortier walked, was suddenly wrapped by the 1st Russian army corps, ordered by Kutuzow and composed of approximately 35 000 men; after an obstinate combat, in which the French collapsed everywhere the enemy, the general marshal and officers turned over to the general headquarter of Spitz, when a strong enemy column, who intercepted the communications, obliged them to turn back.

During this time, another column of approximately 10 000 Russians had come to tackle the positions occupied by Gazan division on the plate of Impach.

Without awaiting the orders, major Henriod joins together the 100e line, to which join the 4th light one, 103e of line and 4th of dragons; he addresses to these troops an energetic short speech in the name of the French honor, of the hello of his flags and that of his chiefs, then putting himself at their head, the time when the marshal arrived on the plate, he goes to the meeting of the enemy, collapses it, reverses it and forces it to escape; division Gazan, thus released, could join that of the general Dupont with one mile of Diernestein.

Following this business, in which it had had two horses killed under him, major Henriod accepted in front of all division testimonys of the satisfaction of the Mortier marshal, who presented it the following day to assistance-of-carnp Emperor come on the spot to know the results of the day.

Appointed Officer of the Legion of Honor following this feat of arms, it accepted the patent of colonel of the regiment of line, the December 30th 1806, and was announced again to the Bataille of Eylau, where its regiment was only 7th body which broke and crossed the first Russian line.

But constant, and not having been reached of a serious wound, he did not want to leave his regiment formed in square, and strewed the ground with Russian corpses; 28 killed officers, 590 warrant officers or soldiers and 700 wounded, indicated the site which it had occupied. Wounded to there thigh the next on June 1st, to Heilsberg, it was sent in Spain in 1808, and made the war in Aragon and Catalogne until in 1814, and accepted, the July 21st 1808, the cross of commander of the Légion of honor.

The November 23rd according to, with Tudela, it inserted the left of the enemy; later, it will coopéra with the Siège of Saragossa, was wounded of a shot, and took share with the various actions which followed the catch of this place.

About August 1809, it beat and continued, for two months, of village in village, the sergeant-general Villa-Camped, which took refuge finally in the large chain of the mounts of Castille this one had made convent of the Trumendad its principal place of weapons and the deposit of its ammunition.

This monastery, built on the top of a mountain, and surrounded by natural obstacles, was considered inaccessible; and Villa-Camped had joined together there an army corps of 5 000 troops of line, and a great number of peasants. Colonel Henriod left the November 13rd Daroca, distant of fifteen miles Tremendad, with the tète of 14th of line, of 13th of cuirassiers, four companies of elite, and a battalion of the 2nd regiment of the the Vistula, with two parts of gun and an howitzer. Arrived the 25 at the foot of the Tremendad mount, it made its provisions of attack, and after eight hours of an obstinate combat, it seized the convent and delivered it to the flames.

It had been necessary to remove each nipple with the bayonet, and to climb a mountain of highest rise, by ways in zigzag, narrow and escarpés, which provided to the Spaniards the means of stopping with each step their adversaries.

Created Baron of the Empire the November 18th according to, and promoted with the Brigadier general rank of the July 3rd, it deserved the praises of the Emperor by the services which it rendered to the Combat of Tenega, the January 13rd 1811, and during the defense of Lérida in 1812.

On leave of convalescence since the June 28th 1813, it was put in non-activity on September 1st 1814, and named Chevalier of Saint-Louis the January 17th 1815.

To the return of the isle of Elba, the Emperor recalled it to the activity, and indicated it, the June 12th, to take the supreme command of the Quesnoy; but the unhappy events of this time did not enable him to obey the order which had been dispatched to him.

Admitted with the retirement the October 6th according to, it died the June 20th 1825.

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