Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French officer
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Place of Birth: Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan
- Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan (1748 in Bourg-en-Bresse – 27 September 1796) was a French officer for the Continental Army and a French General during the French Revolution. When he was young, he had to leave France to serve as a cavalry officer and then military engineer in the Russian army.
- When he returned to France, he was sent to support the newly born United States as a Lt.
- Colonel Engineer in the Continental Army.
- During the French Revolution era, he was appointed Colonel of the Infantry, then Colonel of the Cavalry, and then promoted to Brigade General in command of the cavalry. Jean-Bernard Gauthier was born in a family of jurists in Bourg-en-Bresse (now Ain département) of France.
- He was baptized on 28 November 1748.
- He became an officer in the French Royal Army.
- He had to leave France for a bad duel affair, and take refuge in Russia.
- He was hired as a lieutenant in the Regiment of Dragoons of Smolensk, Belarus.
- He was under the command of Prince Golitsyn until 1776, when he became Captain-Engineer, after studying at the Moscow University.
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