Nicolas Broussier

Nicolas Broussier , born in 1774, with City-on-Saulx, military French.

It left as voluntary in one these many battalions that the department of the Meuse sent on the border, at the beginning of the revolutionary wars, and accepted the baptism of blood on the field of Bataille of Arlon. During the countryside of 1801 to the Passage of Mincio, it was reached of a new wound, by flushing out the enemy of the village of Pazzolo, with the head of some riflemen of the 43e. Legionary as of 1803, when he was captain assistance-of-camp of the general Jean-Baptiste Broussier, his/her cousin, and major, during the countryside of 1809, he led itself, the June 29th, two battalions with the help of the 24e regiment blocked since three days in the Faubourg Saint-Léonard, with Gratz, by 10 000 Croatian S, and brought back the regiment on the flag of which the Emperor made enter the currency: against ten .

In 1813, Napoleon i entrusted to Broussier the command of 9th of line, regiment made up children of Paris, with the head of which, the March 2nd 1814, it climbed the ramparts of Parma, where it accepted a blow of bayonet: it seized the Porte Saint-Michel by which the enemy was to operate his retirement, and made low put the weapons at the Hungarian regiment Francesco Carl.

The Restauration, which had initially relegated Broussier in the non-activity, gave him, in 1819, the 5th regiment of line which it led in Spain, where its control deserved to him, the October 3rd 1823, the rank of Brigadier in the division of the Haut-Èbre. Broussier ordered the department of the Coast-with Or, of 1831 with 1836.

He withdrew himself then with Bar-le-Duc, where he died of an attack of Apoplexie striking down the January 10th 1850.

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