Jean-Baptiste Salme or Salm was a French general.
31 Facts About Jean-Baptiste Salme
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Jean-Baptiste Salme led French troops in several actions during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme served alongside Jacques MacDonald when they were both generals of brigade in the Flanders Campaign in 1794.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme emerged as the commanding officer of the 3rd Infantry Demi-brigade in the Army of the Rhine in 1793.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme led his unit at Haguenau and Second Wissembourg.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme served in Italy in 1798 and led the army advance guard at the Trebbia in 1799 where he was wounded and captured by the Austrians.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme was killed in action during the Siege of Tarragona in 1811.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme's surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 38.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme's father was a laborer and later became a timber merchant in 1784.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme pere was accused of misappropriating civic funds in 1789.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme was round-faced and had a smallpox scar on his nose.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme remained a simple private during his early military career, serving in garrison at Toulouse and Carcassonne in 1788 and Montauban in 1790.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme was married the next day to Jeanne Henriette Masse.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme had become friends with Pichegru who employed him with the Army of the North.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme received credit for the seizure of the town.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme helped clear the British forces out of Friesland and Groningen provinces, winning the approval of Souham.
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However, Jean-Baptiste Salme missed the sailing at Ancona and instead joined the Army of Rome under Jean Etienne Championnet.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme's troops were only Frenchmen that remained east of the Trebbia River.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme was ordered to retreat as soon as the enemy applied pressure but instead he stood his ground.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme was wounded and so was his successor Jean Sarrazin.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme was held a prisoner by the Austrians until the Treaty of Luneville in March 1801.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme went on the Saint-Domingue expedition arriving in Hispaniola on 5 February 1802.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme was assigned to command the 13th Brigade in Jean Hardy's division.
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On 16 October 1802 Jean-Baptiste Salme was placed in inactive status and given an annual pension of 5,000 francs.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme took up residence in Drusenheim on a property co-owned by his father-in-law.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme moved to the market square of Neufchateau and went into business with another man as manufacturers of starch.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme sent many letters to the War Ministry asking to be employed but he was ignored even though he had the sympathy of Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville.
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Souham was home from the Peninsular War with a wound and Jean-Baptiste Salme asked that general to get him a combat posting.
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On 21 October 1810, an Italian brigade under Francesco Orsatelli Eugenio supported by a French brigade under Jean-Baptiste Salme attacked the Spanish position at Cardona.
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Jean-Baptiste Salme was buried under a nearby aqueduct, the Pont de les Ferreres, and his embalmed heart was placed in the Tower of the Scipios along the road to Barcelona.
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Since Jean-Baptiste Salme had no children and was in the process of divorcing his wife, his financial assets were distributed among his brothers and sisters.