Jean-Jacques Ambert

The baron Jean-Jacques Ambert (born on October 1st 1766 with Saint-Céré, dead the November 20th 1851 with Low-Ground), General of Empire.

Military career

It embarks in 1780 like volunteer on the '' Pluton '', and attends the catch of the islands of Tobago and St Lucia. Of return in France, in 1783, it fights the Prussians as chief of the 2nd battalion of the Batch. Named Lieutenant-colonel the July 7th 1792, Brigadier general the September 22nd 1793, then Major general the November 28th 1793 with the armies of the Rhine-and-Moselle, it orders the left wing with the Bataille of Kaiserslautern, and takes part in the Blocus of Mainz. It joined then the Armée with Italy.

Friend of the generals Notch, Kléber, Marceau, Desaix, Moreau, Pichegru, it shares the disgrace of the two last and is sent to the Guadeloupe in the capacity as governor.

He finds under the tropic all fires of the climate and the civil war. Relieved in 1808, because one believes it guilty to be remained voluntary spectator of the disorder, it escapes from the colony and returns to France where it asks to be judged. The military commission, chaired by a marshal of the Empire, discharges it unanimously, in 1812. It is charged, in 1813, of the 17th military division in Holland. In 1815 it receives the command of the 9th military division.

Consulted at the time of the unloading of Napoleon i on the means of stopping its walk, it gives advice which is not taken. It makes act of tender to the new imperial government and is charged with the line of defense, along the Canal of Ourcq. After the second abdication of Napoleon, it follows the army on the Loire, and after the dismissal of this army it returns in the civil life. Admitted definitively with the retirement the June 11th 1832, it dies in Low-Ground the November 20th 1851.

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