Jacques Anne Joseph Le Prestre de Vauban (10 March 1754, in Dijon – 20 April 1816) was a French general of the Ancien Regime and the French Revolutionary…
Louis-Philippe was born into a family with a rich political and military tradition. His grandfather, Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, and his uncle Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil…
Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe (20 February 1728 – 28 February 1792) was Governor General of Réunion, Haiti and Pondichéry. According to most accounts he was born in 1728…
Louis Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince de Wagram, 1st Duc de Valangin, 1st Sovereign Prince of Neuchâtel (20 February 1753 – 1 June 1815), was a Marshal of France,…
Count Armand Blanquet du Chayla (9 May 1759 – 29 April 1826) was an officer in the French Navy, most famous as second in command of the French…
Charles Joseph Patissier, Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau (1718 – 7 January 1785) was the Governor General of the French colony of Pondicherry from 1783 to 1785. He servied with…
Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue is a group of French settlers and 800 native riflemen “Gens de couleur”, from Saint-Domingue, who participated in the war of American independence. It was…
Thomas Conway (February 27, 1735 – c. 1800) was an Irish soldier from France who served as a major general in the American Continental Army during the American…
Claude Dallemagne (8 November 1754, Peyrieu, Ain – 12 June 1813) started his career in the French army under the Bourbons, fought in the American Revolutionary War, rose…