Marie François Rouyer was a French general during the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

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. In 1783 he joined the army of a German state and became a lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 of dragoons within three years. In 1791 he joined the French army as an infantry captain. He fought in the French Revolutionary Wars

French Revolutionary Wars

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, becoming an Adjutant General

Adjutant general

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 Chef de brigade

Chef de brigade

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 (colonel) on 12 April 1794. He won promotion to general of brigade on 30 July 1799. Napoleon Bonaparte named him a commander of the Légion d'Honneur

Légion d'honneur

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 on 14 June 1804.

Assigned to lead a brigade in the VI Corps

VI Corps (Grande Armée)

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, he fought at Haslach-Jungingen

Battle of Haslach-Jungingen

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 and Dürrenstein in the War of the Third Coalition. He earned advancement to general of division on 24 December 1805 but continued to lead a brigade. The following year he fought at Halle

Battle of Halle

In the Battle of Halle on 17 October 1806 a French corps led by Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte fought the Prussian Reserve under Eugene Frederick Henry, Duke of Württemberg. The French defeated their opponents, forcing the Prussians to retreat northeast toward Dessau after suffering heavy losses. The...

, Waren-Nossentin

Battle of Waren-Nossentin

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, and Lübeck

Battle of Lübeck

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. In the last action he captured Carl Carlsson Mörner

Carl Carlsson Mörner

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 and 600 Swedes. In 1807, he led his troops at Mohrungen

Battle of Mohrungen

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 and Braunsberg

Braniewo

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 before being given command of a Hessian

Grand Duchy of Hesse

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 division.

He became a Baron of the Empire on 18 March 1809. In the War of the Fifth Coalition

War of the Fifth Coalition

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 his division of French-allied Germans guarded Napoleon's line of communications. His forces were mauled at Franzensfeste

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 on 4 August 1809 while attempting to suppress the Tyrolean Rebellion. In early 1810 he led a division in Catalonia

Catalonia

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. In 1813 and 1814, he commanded the 2nd Division in Italy at Caldiero

Battle of Caldiero (1813)

The Battle of Caldiero on 15 November 1813 saw an army of the First French Empire under Eugène de Beauharnais opposed to an Austrian Empire army led by Johann von Hiller. Eugène, who was the Viceroy of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy inflicted a defeat on Hiller's troops, driving them from Caldiero...

 and the Mincio. King Louis XVIII of France

Louis XVIII of France

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 appointed him a chevalier of the Order of Saint Louis

Order of Saint Louis

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. He was buried at Barville, Vosges

Barville, Vosges

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 on 10 August 1824. ROUYER is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe

Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe

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, on Column 1.