Jean-Louis Dubreton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French general
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Place of Birth: Ploërmel, Brittany, France
About Jean-Louis Dubreton
- Jean-Louis Dubreton (18 January 1773 – 27 May 1855) enlisted in the French army in 1790 and served during the French Revolutionary Wars where he gained advancement.
- During the War of the First Coalition he fought against the allies in the north and against the War in the Vendée.
- By 1801 he commanded a battalion in Italy.
- The year 1803 found him leading a regiment during the failed French occupation of Santo Domingo. During the Napoleonic Wars, Dubreton served in Holland and Germany, becoming a general officer in 1811.
- Later he transferred to Spain where he won fame by leading the defenders during the Siege of Burgos, one of Wellington's rare setbacks.
- Promoted, he commanded a division at Dresden, Leipzig, and Hanau in the autumn of 1813.
- King Louis XVIII of France appointed him to several military posts and, in 1819, to the Chamber of Peers, a lawmaking body.
- Dubreton is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe on Column 35.
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