Jacques Desjardin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French general
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Place of Birth: Angers, Pays de la Loire, France
About Jacques Desjardin
- Jacques Desjardin or Jacques Jardin or Jacques Desjardins; (9 February 1759 – 11 February 1807) enlisted in the French royal army as a young man and eventually became a sergeant.
- During the first years of the French Revolutionary Wars he enjoyed very rapid promotion to the rank of general officer in the army of the French First Republic.
- In May and June 1794 he emerged as co-commander of an army that tried three times to cross the Sambre at Grandreng, Erquelinnes and Gosselies and each time was thrown back by the Coalition.
- After that, he reverted to a division commander and saw more service in the north of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
- In the campaign of 1805, he led an infantry division under Marshal Pierre Augereau in Emperor Napoleon's Grande Armée and saw limited fighting.
- In 1806 he fought at Jena, Czarnowo and Golymin.
- He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Eylau on 8 February 1807 and died three days later.
- His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 16.
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