Louis the Duportail Stammerer

Louis Antoine Jean the Stammerer of Presle Duportail was born with Pithiviers, the May 14th 1743, died in 1802.

Before the Revolution

Raise genius of Mézières, Louis Duportail precedes Fayette in America, is named colonel of the American engineers on July 8th, 1777, adviser tactical of Washington. Gate becomes general major, and is the founder of the body of the American genius. He returns sergeant of the armies of the king and is named brigadier in 1788. Responsible for the instruction of the Neapolitan troops, it is of return in France to the beginning of the Revolution.

Under the Revolution

The protection of Fayette is worth to him to be named Minister for the War, the October 10th 1790. It is attacked on all sides. The royalists make him objection tolerate indiscipline in the army, to have left the patriotic clubs and companies to settle in the barracks, to have produced circulars against the emigration. The revolutionists reproach him for having left the borders without garrisons and sufficient defenses. It is violently attacked in November 1791 by Georges Couthon and Charles François Delacroix and must give its resignation the December 3rd 1791.

Sent with a command in Lorraine, it is taken with part after the August 10th 1792 by the abbot Claude Fauchet who obtains his committal for trial. Louis Duportail manages to hide with Paris and to emigrate in 1794 towards the the United States. He becomes there the chief of the genious of Continental Army. Mathieu Dumas request in vain in June 1797 its radiation of the list of the emigrants. It is only after the 18 brumaire year VIII (November 9th 1799) that it is authorized to return to France. He dies on the boat which brings back it.

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