biography
| name: |
Moreau, (Jean) Victor (Marie)
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pronunciation:
[moroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1763–1813)
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| biography:
| French general in the Napoleonic Wars, born in Morlaix, NW France. He studied law, but in 1789 commanded the volunteers from Rennes, and in 1794 was made a general of division. He drove the Austrians back to the Danube, but was forced to retreat, and later deprived of his command (1797). He declined the dictatorship of Sieyès, but lent his assistance to Napoleon in the coup of 18th Brumaire. He gained victories over the Austrians in 1800, winning the Battle of Hohenlinden. Napoleon accused him of sharing in the royalist plot against him, and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment (1804), but the sentence was commuted to banishment, and he settled in New Jersey. In 1813 he accompanied the Russian attack on Dresden, but died following wounds received in the battle. |
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