Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville [SEP] conflict
Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville
Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville (29 August 1773 - 17 June 1815) was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a baron de l'Empire on 9 September 1810, général de brigade on 30 January 1813, and acted as aide de camp to Napoleon himself. He fought with distinction in the first French Revolutionary Wars and became, under the First French Empire, a major in the dragoons of the Imperial Guard.
Life.
Volunteering in 1791, he fought
On 19 March Napoleon personally accompanied two French cavalry divisions from Plancy-l'Abbaye to Méry-sur-Seine. Evidently, these were the divisions of Berckheim and Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville because the next day Letort was recalled to Arcis-sur-Aube with a pontoon bridge that had been captured. In a skirmish with Allied cavalry the following afternoon, Letort's division was driven back to Méry despite the assistance of Curely's brigade. That night, Letort set out again, leaving the pontoons with Berckheim. On 21