Pierre Alexandre Jean Mollière (Orleans 1800 - Paris 1850) is a Général French of the XIXe century.

Biography

Voluntary private at twenty-four years, in the regular infantry Greek, then officer in the crowned company of the Philhellènes, he had become aide-de-camp of the general Fabvier, assistance-of-camp of the general Trézel, and finally major in the staff of the Greek army. After the Countryside of Roumélie against Reschid-Pasha, he managed to penetrate of sharp force in the Acropolis with Philhellènes.

One day, to Athens, two pomegranates will raise in the plain, near the Turkish lines, the commander Robert, who had the two carried legs. This act of devotion obtains every success, and the two soldiers bring back their alive chief in the citadel. Of these two men, one was Mollière, which was made officer little days afterwards. Another day, the Fabvier general learns that the Greeks miss ammunition in the advanced positions. It forms a battalion of 750 men, makes give to each soldier 25 pounds of powder and directs them on the trench in the middle of the fire of the enemy, extremely of 8.000 men. Mollière is still with there head of this perilous company.

In 1827, Mollière made the Campagne of Thèbes, it took part in that of Scio, where it unloaded the first with the foot of fear Turkish, having water to the belt. The following year, it belonged to the forwarding of Tschesmé in Asia.

In 1830, Mollière did not hesitate to leave its brilliant position of senior officer in the Greek army, to accept the modest rank of lieutenant in the French Army. In 1832 it put the foot on the ground of Africa with the 1st battalion of light infantry lately created.

The general Trézel took it for his aide-de-camp during the Expédition of Candle. Though wounded as of the first moments of the unloading (September 29th 1833), Mollière wanted to remain with the head of the first column of attack which it directed on the fort of Abd-el-Kader, until the moment when it missed the forces completely. In the Countryside of Maskara, in December 1835, when at the exit of the Camp of Sig the army was attacked in the ravine of the Habra, Mollière, with the head of a company of Zouave S, approached the enemy body with body and released several casualties of the 1st brigade, in particular the general Oudinot.

One still finds it quoted following forwardings of Médéah, Maskara and Constantine in 1836. In October 1838 remained only French officer with the camp of El-Arouch with the Turkish militia, it pushed back firmly the attacks of the Kabyles, and with the head of these same troops, organized in indigenous battalions of riflemen, it supported, in the Province of Constantine, several brilliances engagements in front of fears 62e of line, in the days of the 9,11 and May 15th 1840.

Of return in Africa in 1845, as Colonel of the 13 {{E}} Leger, after a three years absence, Mollière took share in the autumn campaign, with the forwarding directed in the Western by the general Bugeaud against the Ouled-Krelif and the Blessed-Meïda, with the columns of the general Jusuf.

It had returned to France with its regiment, little time after the events of February 1848, and was employed with the Armée with the Alps during its nomination to the Brigadier general rank of the August 17th 1848.

Commander of the Legion of honor and ordering 4th brigade of infantry of the Armed with Paris, the Mollière general died in this city the July 6th 1850.

The Mollière general was not only one officer of the first merit, he was also a distinguished military writer. He had published a extremely remarkable memory on the organization of the auxiliary bodies in Algérie , question of which he had studied all the faces during his command of the Turks of Constantine, and he put the last hand at the Dictionnaire of the Army , to which the general scientist Bardin, his uncle, had worked during thirty years.

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