Simon Canuel
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Simon Canuel (29 October 1767, Les Trois Moutiers, in the Vienne – 11 May 1840) was a French general.
Contents
Life
French Revolutionary Wars
First Empire
Napoleon I decided not to put Canuel on active service, keeping him in command of various quiet strongholds. Bored at the inaction, he went over to the Bourbons in 1814 and so during the Hundred Days the following year had to take refuge among the Royalist insurgents of the Vendée.
Restoration
End of career
References
Sources
- Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis Chassang (ed.s), "Simon Canuel" in Dictionnaire universel d’histoire et de géographie, 1878
- "Simon Canuel", in Charles Mullié, Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, 1852
