Louis Furrier

Louis Furrier , born with Saint-Lubin (Eure-et-Loir), the May 20th 1754, general French.

It entered, to the Régiment of the Lyoneses the January 7th 1771, and passed the June 15th 1775 to the Régiment of Maine, unfolding of the Lyoneses. Sergeant the November 25th 1779, quartermaster-sergeant of pomegranates the 1786, adjudant-under-officer the July 14th 1791, lieutenant the May 26th 1792, executive officer the June 6th and pomegranate captain the November 6th according to, Pelletier made the campaigns of 1792 and 1793 with the Armée with Italy, and was wounded the June 12th of this last year to the Affaire of the camp of Raous, of a shot to the right cheek which carried the knob of this cheek to him.

He attended the Siège of Toulon and made the remainder of the countryside to the Armée with the Eastern Pyrenees. Named Brigadier general 3 nivôse year II; it was put in non-activity. Recalled to the service, it passed to the Armée with the Alps and Italy on Thermidor 7 year III. The 17 of the same month it ordered with the Camp of Term; the enemy had just taken a position which removed any species of retirement to the French troops if they had been pushed back. The Pelletier general realized danger and advanced against this column two parts of gun only supported by one body of 200 men, of which it ignited courage by calling it his intrepid reserve. This small troop went to the enemy, attacked it by beginning the combat with the discharge of its two pieces of artillery, managed to push back the 2.000 Piedmont board and forced them to pass by again with haste the throat of Lïnferno.

The general Furrier, in this circumstance, was proof of greatest talent the. Turned on all sides by a higher enemy, it faced of all shares. Soon, attacked in its camp by the Piedmontese one, he arrived, in spite of the numerical superiority of the enemy, to preserve this important point.

With the Battle of Castiglione, Thermidor 16 year IV, Pelletier ordered the 45e and 69e half-brigades, part of the reserve and a squadron of the 22e hunters, and rendered the greatest services in this bloody day. In the year V, this general remained with the Blocus of Mantoue for all his length of time and passed then to the division Joubert, which was in the the Tyrol.

Year VII at year XIII, it was useful in the 8th military division, and was named member of the Légion of honor the 19 frimaire year XII, and ordering of a Nature the 25 meadow. The October 20th 1811, called with the command of the Department of Gard, it took later that of the department of the Herault. The Pelletier general obtained his retirement on October 1st 1814.

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