Frédéric Henri Walther
| Frederic-Louis-Henri Walther | |
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A fair-haired man in an ornate military uniform, rests on a stone. He hands a message to a grenadier, whose brown horse rears behind him.
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| Born |
20 June 1761 Obenheim, Alsace, Bas Rhin |
| Died |
24 November 1813 (aged 52) Kusel, Sarre, Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Allegiance |
 France
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| Service/branch | French Army |
| Years of service | 1781–1813 |
| Rank | Général de division |
| Battles/wars |
War of the First Coalition |
| Awards | Grand Eagle, Legion of Honor; Order of the Iron Crown; Count of the Empire. Eastern Pillar, Column 16, Arc de Triomphe. |
War of the First Coalition
War of the Second Coalition
Frédéric-Louis-Henri Walther (20 June 1761 – 24 November 1813), was an Alsatian-born general of division and a supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte. He fought for France in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
He enlisted in 1781 and, in his 30-year career, he saw action at the major French defeats and victories in Europe. He fought in André Masséna's Army of Switzerland, where he participated in the Winterthur and First and Second Battles of Zürich, the campaigns of 1806 against Prussia, and Napoleon's invasion of Russia. After the Russian and Saxon campaign, while suffering from exhaustion, he contracted typhus and died in Kusel, in the Saarland. He was buried at the Panthéon, and his name is listed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Walther was the son of Georges Henri Walther, a Lutheran pastor, and Marie Elisabeth Chatel of Montbéliard. He was born in Obenheim, in the Alsace region of the Bas-Rhin. His cousins, Frédéric Cuvier and Georges Cuvier, were naturalists and zoologists. He married 20-year-old Salome-Louise Coulman on 12 April 1802. They had two daughters, born 1803 and 1807; in 1810, a third child was still-born.
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