Paul Ferdinand Stanislas Dermoncourt

Paul Ferdinand Stanislas Dermoncourt is a French soldier born with Crécy-with-Mount (Aisne) the March 3rd 1771 and died in 1847.

Biography

In 1789, it takes part in the Storming of the Bastille , and enters immediately afterwards the company Odiot (Quartier of the hillock Saint-Roch) of pomegranates of the national guard of Paris.

Volunteer in the 3rd battalion of the Aisne the September 4th 1791, pomegranate sergeant and quartermaster-sergeant the April 4th and July 3rd 1792, it makes this year campaign to the Armée with North, is with the Combat of Quiévrain, and embarks with Lorient for the Martinique, with the general Rochambeau. Arrived at Santo Domingo, he manages to bring back for the police chiefs Convention, Polverel and Santhonax, the troops which still held for Esparbès, dispossessed governor.

In November, with the head of its company, all the officers being sick, it seizes Pelle held by the natives, that it puts in rout.

Put at the order of the army, the December 19th, for this act of war, it receives the same day the rank of lieutenant, and that of captain on December 28th.

It leaves, on October 1st 1793, for Philadelphia, in order to restore its health there. Taken by corsairs of the islands Bermuda, rejected at sea by a storm, he arrives finally Philadelphia, where an epidemic of Yellow fever prevails which makes 22.000 dead among the colonists.

He contracts this disease, but survives it. He profits, to return in France, of the departure of a large convoy of the Baie of Chesapeake, which takes place on April 21st, 1794, and it arrives at Brest on June 11th.

Imprisoned during a few days as all those which came from overseas, attached then to the Armée with the coasts of Brest, it fights in Quiberon on July 11th, and goes back to Brest, where it fulfills the functions of adjudant of place. October 4th, 1795, it is with Paris, and the 5, it defends Convention with the Combat of Saint-Roch.

Named 23 germinal year IV assistance-of-camp of the general Alexandre Dumas, it went with him in Italy, then, after the Bataille of Rivoli and the rendering of Mantoue, it followed it in the the Tyrol. With the Passage of the Washing, it saved the life with the assistance-of-camp Lambert, that the torrent involved. Realizing that one fears, defended by 60 Austrians, and placed at the head of the village Faner, located at semi-coast, inconvenienced division, it was put at the head of 50 pomegranates, went above fears, took it with reverse, seized, and brought back the captive Austrians them.

It was distinguished with the removal of the Pont of Newenark and with the taken of Bolgiano. French went on Brixen. The enemy was posted with Clausen, on the Eisach, and the entry of this small town was defended by a 200 meters length covered bridge. The shooting engaged on this bridge did not make it possible the cavalry to pass. The assistance-of-camp Dermoncourt put foot at ground with a score of dragons, and, under the fire of the enemy, releasing the bridge by throwing in the Eisach all that encumbered it, delivered the passage to the Dumas general and to all his column, and Bixen fell soon to the capacity from the French troops. With one mile in front of this city, the Dumas general was only to fight against an enemy squadron; its Dermoncourt assistance-of-camp precipitated at once with its help and accepted a serious wound with the shoulder. The general-in-chief Napoleon Bonaparte, informed by the general Joubert of control of this officer during the countryside, quoted it with praises in his report/ratio with the government.

Become captain in the 3rd regiment of dragons the 6 brumaire year VI, it was useful in Am E, embarked with Toulon the 30 floréal with the expeditionary Armée with the East, and made the campaigns of Egypt and Syria until year IX. The Battle of Aboukir, Thermidor 7 year VII, the colonel Duvivier, who had the cavalry under his orders, having been killed, the Dermoncourt captain succeeded to him in this command until his replacement by the general Roise, and acted with as much intelligence than of courage. During the action, it accepted a ball in the chest which reversed it on the croup of its horse; it avoided the danger only because its coat was rolled in cross in front of him, and was wounded of a shot with ankle left. Though its wound made it much suffer and prevented it from fitting itself, the general-in-chief charged it with leading camels charged with money to Rahmanié, then with Alexandria, with secret dispatches for the general Marmont and the admiral Gantheaume, of which it was to carry to him the answers to the Cairo. He fulfills his mission in spite of the repeated attacks of the Arab S; the answer of the admiral was verbal, it was limited to this little words: the wind is good . The Dermoncourt captain deferred it exactly to the general-in-chief, who soon after shingled towards the France. He announced himself to the Bataille of Héliopolis, close to Coraïm, where he helped Kléber, and with the resumption of Cairo.

The general-in-chief Menou recognized his services by appointing it major with 14th of dragons the 4 messidor year VIII.

With the Second battle of Aboukir, the 30 ventôse year IX, reached of a shot to the throat, it did not leave the command, rejoined its body and supported the retirement with a great energy. Returned to France under the terms of the Convention of Alexandria, confirmed in its last rank by the First Consul, the 15 ventôse year X, it passed in the 22e regiment of cavalry; but this regiment having been built-in the cuirassiers, one sent it in the 21e dragons, the 13 pluviôse year XI. In year XII the first Consul named it, the 23 frimaire, major of 11th of cuirassiers, and the 4 germinal member of the Légion of honor.

He was used for the Large army, of year XIV with 1807. Fact colonel of the 1e of dragons, the April 5th of this last year, it led its regiment to fire for the first time, the June 12th, with the Bataille of Heilsberg, and for the second time, the 14, with Friedland. At the end of this battle, the Emperor made call Sopransi, assistance-of-camp of the Prince of Neufchatel: “ say to the colonel 1e regiment which I am content with him. ”

Baron of the Empire, with equipment, the March 17th 1808, Officer of the Legion of Honor, the October 4th according to, it entered immediately in Spain with division Latour-Maubourg, and remained there until in 1811. Its retirement of Tarragone, in December 1808, is one of the most beautiful feats of arms of the French Army of the campaigns of Spain. The July 29th 1809, with Talavera of Reina, where it ordered its brigade, it had the crossed right thigh of a shot. Forced to stop its service, it took it again in October, and accepted, the December 29th, in the Sierra-Morena, a ball died in the right knee. With Madrilejos, with the Trocadéro, Chiclana, it showed of bravery, activity and military talents. The 1e regiment of dragons having become 1st chevau-light-lancers, colonel Dermoncourt left the Andalusia, the October 9th 1811, and entered to France to proceed to the organization of the new body, organization which it supplemented with Chartres. It left this city the May 12th 1812, and joined the Large army with Moscow, the October 11th. It fought the 21 with Malo-Jaroslawetz.

At the beginning of 1813, it took with Mainz the command of a regiment of walk, and went to the army close to Bautzen. With the Combat of Rechenbach, it made several happy loads and had a horse killed under him. It is during the armistice that the Emperor raised it, the July 22nd, with the Brigadier general rank of , and the command of the cavalry of the 5th body entrusted to him.

It was with the businesses of Goldberg, of Lœwenberg, Leipzig and Hanau, and the Emperor gave him the cross of commander of the Legion of honor, the December 4th; the 25 it was with Neuf-Brisach, charged to supervise work and the provisioning of this place. At the time of the investment, and when it was prepared to be withdrawn with its brigade on Schelestadt, it accepted the following order: By order of the general Grouchy, lieutenant of the right-hand side of the army, it is ordered to the Dermoncourt general to throw its person in the place of Neufbrisach and to defend it to the last drop of its blood. The major general GROUCHY. And the Austrians did not enter there.

After abdication, it made its tender with Louis XVIII, which named it Chevalier of Saint-Louis, the September 17th, employed it at the general headquarter of the 5th military division, the 23 of the same month, and entrusted to him, the October 10th, the higher command of Neuf-Brisach, which it withdrew to him the January 2nd 1815.

With the return of the isle of Elba, the Emperor restores it, the March 25th, in this command. He successfully supported the second blockade of Neuf-Brisach. Replaced one put it at the retirement, the September 26th 1821. Raised of this position to the Revolution of 1830, it accepted, the March 7th 1831, the command of the department of the Haute-Loire, and that of the Loire-Inférieure, the April 24th 1832.

One pronounced his réadmission with the retirement, on April 1st 1833, in accordance with the law. It went to reside at Batignolles, close to Paris.

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