Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen [SEP] date of birth
Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen
Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen (13 April 1769 – 9 September 1832) was a French general who served during the French Revolutionary Wars, as Governor General of Pondicherry and the Isle de France (now Mauritius) and as commander of the Army of Catalonia during the Napoleonic Wars.
French Revolution.
Decaen, born in Caen, served as a gunner in the French Navy before the French Revolution. In 1792 Decaen enlisted in the "Calvados" battalion. He served under Kléber in the siege of
- 13 April – Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, general (died 1832).
Births July to December.
- 29 July – Louis-Benoît Picard, playwright (died 1828).
- 15 August – Napoleon Bonaparte, military and political leader (died 1821).
- 23 August – Georges Cuvier, naturalist and zoologist (died 1832).
- 28 December – Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry, poet, novelist, historian and politician (died 1859).
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