Jean Baptiste Eblé [SEP] conflict
Jean Baptiste Eblé
Jean Baptiste Eblé (December 21, 1758 – December 31, 1812) was a French General, Engineer and Artilleryman during the Napoleonic Wars. He is credited with saving Napoleon's Grand Army from complete destruction in 1812.
Biography.
Eblé was born in Saint-Jean-Rohrbach, Moselle.
He, like his father, started out in the artillery when he joined the army in 1793. He was commissioned as an officer two years later. Rising rapidly through the ranks, he served
the vaults of Les Invalides while the rest of their bodies are interred elsewhere:
- Jean Beryrand, lord of Senneric 1691
- General Jean-Baptiste Kléber
- General Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul 1807
- Major general de Bisson 1811
- Major general Jean Baptiste Eblé (1813)
- Lieutenant general Baraguey d'Hilliers (1813)
- Marie Maurille de Sombreuil, countess of Villelume (1823)
- Lieutenant-general Deconchy (1823)
- Major general Négrier 1848
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