Jean-Marie Forest

Jean-Marie Forest, 4 February 1752 Lyon ( Rhone ) – 12 June 1794 Modena was a general of the French Revolution.

Service record

Forest entered service on 31 August 1768[1] in the dragoons Custine's dragoon regiment (the future 2nd cavalry); he became brigadier 17 September 1777, quartermaster 15 April 1783, and Warrant Officer 1 October 1784. On May 1, 1788, he was a sous-lieutenant, lieutenant on 15 September 1791 , and captain on 15 September 1792 . He served in that capacity in the campaigns of 1792–1793 at the Army of the Rhine , and was appointed squadron leader on 12 October 1793.

He was promoted to brigadier general (provisionally) 11 June 1794 , it was confirmed in grade 29 November 1794.[1] He campaigned from 1794 to 1796, the armies of the Rhine and the Army of the Rhine and Moselle, where he commanded the Reserves, two brigades of cavalry and a brigade of mixed infantry, under overall command of François_Antoine_Louis_Bourcier.[2] He retired at the conclusion of that campaign in 1797 but on 4 May 1798, he was recalled to service and sent to northern Italy, where he commanded a cavalry brigade under the orders of Championnet. He was distinguished by his bravery at the head of the 7th and 25th regiments of curaissiers in battle on December 15, 1798 , and the next night he repulsed an attempted surprise attack by the enemy on the door St. John Lateran in Rome.[3]

25 February 1799 , he led a saber charge at the San Severo, and died 12 June 1799, at the battle of Modena.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Tony Broughton, Generals who served in the French Army during the period 1789-1814. 1995-2010, The Napoleon Series. Accessed 17 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Smith, Digby (1978). Napoleonic Wars Data Book. Greenhill. p. 111.
  3. ↑ Smith, Data Book, p.
  4. ↑ Smith, p. 158.
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