Guilin Laurent Bizanet
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Guilin Laurent Bizanet ({{IPA|fr|ɡilɛ̃ lɔʁɑ̃ bizanɛ}}; 10 August 1755{{snd}}18 April 1836) was a Republican French Revolutionary General who served during the American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Life
Born in Grenoble, capital of the French department of Isère, Bizanet began his career as a sailor-gunner on 4{{nbsp}}November 1780 and was aboard the Majestueux during the American Revolutionary War from 11{{nbsp}}June 1781 to 24{{nbsp}}January 1783.{{Cite book|editor-first=Jean|editor-last=Tulard|author-link=Jean Tulard|title=Dictionnaire Napoléon|volume=A-H|publisher=Fayard|isbn=2-213-60485-1|page=229}} {{in lang|fr}}
After volunteering for the army, he became a brigadier-general on 22{{nbsp}}August 1793 and a divisional general on 10{{nbsp}}April 1794. He was a defender at Monaco in 1793 and at the end of the French Consulate in 1804 became the commander of the armies in Marseille.{{Cite web|title=LEONORE|publisher=Archives nationales (France)|url=http://www.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH019/PG/FRDAFAN83_OL0246015v006.htm}} {{in lang|fr}}
He was named commandant at the fortress of Bergen op Zoom in 1810 and successfully repelled a night attack on 8{{nbsp}}March 1814 led by General Sir Thomas Graham.{{cite book|first=Digby George|last=Smith|title=The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PfUrAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Greenhill Books|isbn=978-1-85367-276-7|page=508}} After the attack, Graham wrote in a despatch to London:
"Sir ... I am anxious too to do justice to the conduct of General Bizanet, which, truly characteristic of a brave man, has beenmarked from the first with the most kind and humane attentions to the prisoners."{{cite book|title=The Military Panorama, Or, Officer's Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=py45AQAAMAAJ|year=1814|page=382}}
Bizanet was commander of Marseille during the Hundred Days under Marshal Guillaume Brune.
Awards
He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour on 12{{nbsp}}December 1803 then an Officer of the same order on 14{{nbsp}}June 1804. On 19{{nbsp}}July 1814 he was made a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis by Louis XVIII of France.
His name is engraved on the 40th Column of the Arc de Triomph
References
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- {{cite wikisource |last1=Mullié |first1=Charles |title=Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 |trans-title=Biography of the military celebrities of the land and sea forces from 1789 to 1850 |wslink=Biographie_des_célébrités_militaires_des_armées_de_terre_et_de_mer_de_1789_à_1850/B#BIZANNET_.28N..29 |volume=1 |year=1851 |publisher=Poignavant et compie |location=Paris, France |wslanguage=fr |oclc=6510227 |page=80 |wspage=80 |chapter=BIZANNET (N.)}}
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Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars
Category:Order of Saint Louis recipients
Category:French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
Category:French military personnel of the American Revolutionary War