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210 - *Ministry of War, 2nd Division.
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*Ministry of War, 2nd Division. Handwritten certificate bearing a vignette of the ‘Coat of Arms of France’, in the name of ‘Major General Antoine Alexandre ROUSSEAU, born in Paris on 17 July 1756’, the following details are recorded in the records as follows: Corporal in the 46th Regiment on 1 October 1735, sergeant in 1779, second lieutenant in 1790, lieutenant in 1791, captain in 1792, Adjutant-General in Year 2, commander of the 74½th Brigade in Year 3, commander of the 50½th Brigade in Year 11, Brigadier-General in Year 11, Major-General in 1811”. This is followed by a list of his campaigns from 1792 to 1814, his wounds sustained in 1781, Year 3 and Year 5, and finally his award of a sabre of honour for his actions during the skirmish of 21 Vendémiaire, Year 5. Signed “Sergeant Major, Baron d’Hanovre Legendre”. Biography: ROUSSEAUX Antoine Alexandre, Baron (Paris, 17 September 1756 – Metz, 15 April 1827), French general of the Revolution and the Empire. A soldier in the Régiment de Bretagne, he took part in the siege of Port-Mahon in 1781, as well as at Mainz, Biberach and Fürstenberg in 1796, where he was awarded a sabre of honour. Appointed brigade commander of the 74th Line Infantry Regiment in 1796. Promoted to brigadier-general in 1803. Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1803, and Commander in 1804. Prevented British troops from landing on the island of Cadzand in 1809. A Baron of the Empire and Major-General in 1811, he rallied to Napoleon I during the Hundred Days. He retired in 1815, four months after Waterloo. Napoleon called him ‘the honest Rousseaux’ because of his fourteen wounds.
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