François Goullus [SEP] conflict
François Goullus
François Goullus, was a brigadier general and "baron" of the First French Empire during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Biography.
Goullus was born 4 November 1758 in Lyon (Rhone), entered service as a soldier 28 October 1776 in the regiment of the Crown (45th Infantry), and was successively promoted to corporal on 1 December 1778, sergeant on 28 November 1779, Staff Sergeant on 22 June 1787, and Warrant officer on 24 December 1789.
He received a
Siege of Le Quesnoy (1793)
The Siege of Le Quesnoy (28 August – 13 September 1793) saw a force made up of Habsburg Austrians and French Royalists led by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt lay siege to a Republican French garrison commanded by François Goullus. After two and a half week siege, the French capitulated after suffering heavy losses. The War of the First Coalition operation was fought at Le Quesnoy, located near the border with Belgium about west of Maubeuge.
After the successful