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CHAMPIONNET, JEAN ETIENNE (1762-1800)

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CHAMPIONNET, See also:JEAN See also:ETIENNE (1762-1800) , See also:French See also:general, enlisted in the See also:army at an See also:early See also:age and served in the See also:great See also:siege of See also:Gibraltar. When the Revolution See also:broke out he took a prominent See also:part in the See also:movement, and was elected by the men of a See also:battalion to command them. In May 1793 he was charged with the suppression of the disturbances in the See also:Jura, which he quelled without bloodshed. Under See also:Pichegru he took part in the See also:Rhine See also:campaign of that See also:year as a See also:brigade See also:commander, and at See also:Weissenburg and in the See also:Palatinate won the warm See also:commendation of Lazare See also:Roche. At See also:Fleurus his stubborn fighting in the centre of the See also:field contributed greatly to See also:Jourdan's victory. In the subsequent See also:campaigns he commanded the See also:left wing of the French armies on the Rhine between Neuwied and See also:Dusseldorf, and took a great part in all the successful and unsuccessful expeditions to the See also:Lahn and the See also:Main. In 1798 Championnet was named commander-in-See also:chief of the " army of See also:Rome " which was protecting the See also:infant See also:Roman See also:republic against the Neapolitan See also:court and the See also:British See also:fleet. Nominally 32,000 strong, the army scarcely numbered 8000 effectives, with a See also:bare fifteen cartridges per See also:man. The See also:Austrian general Mack had a tenfold superiority in See also:numbers, but Championnet so well held his own that he ended by capturing See also:Naples itself and there setting up the Parthenopean Republic. But his intense earnestness and intolerance of opposition soon embroiled him with the civilians, and the general was recalled in disgrace. The following year, however, saw him again in the field as commander-in-chief of the " army of the See also:Alps." This, too, was at first a See also:mere See also:paper force, but after three months' hard See also:work it was able to take the field. The campaign which followed was uniformly unsuccessful, and, worn out by the unequal struggle, Championnet died at See also:Antibes on the 9th of See also:January 1800.

In 1848 a statue was erected in his See also:

honour at See also:Valence. See A. R. C. de St Albin, Championnet, ou See also:les Campagges de Hollande, de Rome et de Naples (See also:Paris, i86o).

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