Johann von Beaulieu
See also: Beaulieu
Johann Pierre de Beaulieu , (October 26th 1725, with Lathuy in the the Brabant - December 22nd 1819 with Lintz), general Belgian of the Austrian armies.
Its name belongs to a family of gentlemen Brabançon S. Voué being studied mathematical, Beaulieu kissed very-young person the military career, and was useful with distinction in the Seven Year old Guerre, like Assistance-of-camp of the Austrian marshal Daun.
It begins its military career in the Guerre Seven Year old (1756 - 1763). It is distinguished with the battles from Kolin, Breslau, Leuthen and Hochkirch.
The Cross of Marie-Therese and a title of baron was his reward. Since 1763 until in 1789 Beaulieu, though covered title of colonel of staff, was devoted almost exclusively to arts, sciences, and the education of his/her son.
It reduces in 1789 the the Brabant risen, with the example of the French revolution. At this last time, it accepted the rank of major general, and the command of some troops intended to choke the revolution brabançonne. It is in a combat delivered to the insurrectionists, that, seeing his/her son falling mortally wounded to his sides, and addressing themselves to its soldiers: “ My friends, says to them it, it is not the moment to cry, but to overcome! ”
Become lieutenant-general and placed, in 1792, on the border of the Netherlands, Beaulieu was defended bravely against the attacks of the general Biron, and drove back the French until under the Valencian walls of . This feat of arms, the first of the wars of the French revolution, was followed various successes in Flanders and in the province of the Luxembourg, where it supported one day the efforts of the Armée with the Moselle, guided by Jourdan. It beat Jourdan with Arlon, by taking again on May 29th, 1794 this place that Jourdan had taken the previous month to him.
In 1796, the military fame of Beaulieu was worth to him the command as a chief of the Armée with Italy. The general was constantly beaten by the young winner of Montenotte. Continued excess on the Po, the Adda, with the bridge of Lodi, on the Mincio, the experiment and the audacity of Beaulieu could not resist nowhere the impetuosity of Napoleon Bonaparte, and it had to yield the command to Wurmser. Then Beaulieu left the service, to live in loneliness. Withdrawn, close to Lintz, in a castle which it had bought of the product of its economies and generosities of Léopold delivered to it to its favorite taste for the agricultural study and care.
His/her son killed under his eyes, his/her son-in-law mortally struck with the Battle of Osterach, his/her three so dead brothers weapons with the hand; its fortune, its library, its cabinet of medals and antiquities, destroyed by the disasters of the war.
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