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词条 Florent Joseph Duquesnoy
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{{Infobox Military Person
| name =Florent Joseph Duquesnoy
| image =
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| birth_date ={{birth-date|27 February 1761}}
| death_date ={{death-date and age|1 July 1801|27 February 1761}}
| birth_place =Bouvigny-Boyeffles, France
| death_place =Aix-Noulette, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
| allegiance ={{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} Kingdom of France
{{flagicon|France}} France
| branch =Cavalry, Infantry
| serviceyears ={{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} 1782–1790
{{flagicon|France}} 1792–1796
| rank =General of Division
| battles ={{tree list}}
  • War of the First Coalition
    • Battle of Hondschoote (1793)
    • Battle of Wattignies (1793)
  • {{tree list/final branch}} War in the Vendée (1793–95)
{{tree list/end}}
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| laterwork =
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Florent Joseph Duquesnoy (27 February 1761 – 1 July 1801) became a French general officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and led a division at the Battle of Wattignies.

Career

Duquesnoy was born to a farmer in Bouvigny-Boyeffles, France on 27 February 1761. He was the brother of Ernest Dominique Francois Joseph Duquesnoy who later became a representative of the First French Republic. He enlisted in the Carabiniers-à-Cheval in 1782 but was discharged in 1790. He became captain in the 4th Pas-de-Calais National Guard Battalion on 28 January 1792. He transferred to the 4th Chasseurs Battalion on 16 November that year. He was promoted to general of brigade on 30 July 1793 and put in charge of the camp of Cassel in August. He assumed the rank of general of division on 3 September 1793, despite the pleas of his brother not to promote him. After the Battle of Wattignies on 15–16 October 1793, he was transferred to the Army of the West on 27 November to fight in the War in the Vendée. He was suspended on 14 May 1795 and placed on inactive status on 1 January 1796.{{sfn|Dupuis|1909|p=93-94}} He died on 1 July 1801.{{sfn|Broughton|2001}}

Notes

References

  • {{cite web|last=Broughton |first=Tony |title=Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period: 1789-1814, Dubois to Duvignot |accessdate=4 June 2015 |publisher=The Napoleon Series |url=http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/frenchgenerals/c_frenchgenerals11.html |ref=harv }}
  • {{cite book|last=Phipps |first=Ramsay Weston |year=2011 |title=The Armies of the First French Republic: Volume I The Armée du Nord |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |location=USA |volume=1 |isbn=978-1-908692-24-5 |ref=harv }}
  • {{cite book|last=Phipps |first=Ramsay Weston |year=2011 |title=The Armies of the First French Republic: Volume III The Armies in the West 1793 to 1797 And, The Armies In The South 1793 to March 1796 |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |location=USA |isbn=978-1-908692-26-9 |ref=harv }}
  • {{cite book|last=Smith |first=Digby |year=1998 |title=The Napoleonic Wars Data Book |location=London |publisher=Greenhill |isbn=1-85367-276-9 |ref=harv }}
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7 : French generals|Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars|French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars|Republican military leaders of the War in the Vendée|People from Pas-de-Calais|1761 births|1801 deaths

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