Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French general
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Place of Birth: Croix-Chapeau, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet
- Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet (14 November 1765 – 19 December 1854) joined the French army in 1781 as an officer cadet and fought in the American Revolutionary War.
- During the French Revolutionary Wars he fought in the Army of the Rhine and was wounded at First and Second Wissembourg.
- After being dismissed from the army for a year and a half for having noble blood, he resumed his military career and was wounded at Biberach and Kehl.
- Promoted to lead the 108th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade, he was in the thick of the fighting at Hohenlinden in 1800, where he was wounded and captured. At the start of the Napoleonic Wars, Marcognet was a general officer commanding a brigade in Marshal of France Michel Ney's corps.
- He led his troops at Günzburg, Elchingen, and Scharnitz in 1805.
- In the 1806-1807 campaign, he led his brigade at Jena, Magdeburg, Eylau, Guttstadt-Deppen, and Friedland.
- After Ney's corps transferred to Spain, he fought at Tamames, Alba de Tormes, Ciudad Rodrigo, Almeida, Bussaco, Torres Vedras, Casal Novo, and Fuentes de Onoro. Marcognet commanded a division in the Italian campaign of 1813-1814, fighting at Caldiero, Boara Pisani, the Mincio, and other actions.
- In 1815, he led a division at Waterloo where it was broken by cavalry after an initial success.
- Marcognet is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 7.
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