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He entered service in 1759 in the defense of Guadeloupe against the English and fought in Martinique in the Seven Years' War . He took the name ''Dugommier'' in 1785 . He joined the Revolutionaries . COMMANDER IN THE ITALIAN ARMY Deputy of the Convention , he was victorious at Cartaux heading the Italian army, which took Toulon from the English. He undertook the strategy of Captain Bonaparte to retake the city ( 1793 ). In September, he drove the troops of Nice - Piedmont from the city of Gilette from the Austrian s of Von Win in several combats. CAMPAIGN IN THE PYRENEES Dugommier was then named head of the army in the Eastern Pyrenees . He was ordered to retake the territory from the Spanish headed by Ricardos . He reorganized the army, weakened as it was by the hard combat of the preceding year spent incessantly and fruitlessly storming the Spanish positions. Through a combination of good strategy and good fortune (the Spanish became paralyzed by a leadership crisis following the successive deaths of two Commanders-in-Chief to disease), Dugommier succeeded in driving the enemy from French soil. On April 28, he took Tech , a success vindicated by the victory of Albere on April 30, together with Moreau against the Spanish and Dutch . The decisive victory at Boulou and Montesquieu against the Spanish of the Alliance on May 1 gave him back Roussillon . Port-Vendres , defended by the general against the Alliance (who had under his command 400 French noblemen of the ''Légion Panetier'') fell on the month of May; Collioure was retaken on the 26th. On June 24, he is at Commissari , later at Saint-Sébastien on August 4 and at Trèves on August 8. He retook the fort of Bellegarde on September 17 , 1794 (the siege had lasted since May 7). On September 22, an audacious attack gave him the redoubt and camp of Costouge , putting the enemy to flight and capturing the most of his material. Dugommier fell on November 18 in the Battle Of The Black Mountains (or of San-Lorenzo de la Muga or Figueras) in Catalonia , in couse of which the physician Larrey distinguished himself with 700 amputations in four day battle. After this battle, Figueras was retaken by Pérignon on November 28. MEMORY He is buried at the fort of Bellegarde, and his name is inscribed in the Panthéon . Napoleon kept his souvenir, bestowing 100,000 Francs to his son for the memory of the battle of Toulon. He now rests at Perpignan in a pyramidal monument. |
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