Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisne de Bourmont
| Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont | |
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Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont
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| Born |
2 September 1773 France |
| Died |
27 October 1846 (aged 73) Freigné, Maine-et-Loire, France |
| Allegiance |
 Royalists 1789–1800 France 1807–1815 France 1815–1830 Portugal 1832–1834 |
| Service/branch | Staff |
| Years of service | 1789–1800, 1807–1830, 1832–1834 |
| Rank | Marshal of France |
| Battles/wars |
French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars Spanish expedition (1823) Invasion of Algiers in 1830 Liberal Wars |
| Other work | Minister of War |
Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont (2 September 1773 – 27 October 1846) emigrated from France soon after the outbreak of the French Revolution. A lifelong royalist, he fought with the counter-revolutionary Army of Condé for two years, then joined the insurrection in France from three more years before going into exile. He was arrested after assisting the Georges Cadoudal conspiracy, but escaped to Portugal.
In 1807 he took advantage of an amnesty to rejoin the French army and served in several campaigns until 1814. He rose in rank to become a general of division. During this period, he was suspected of being an agent of the Comte d'Artois and passing information to France's enemies. Though he was notoriously anti-Napoleon and many officers did not trust him, he was employed again during the Hundred Days. Immediately after the campaign began, he deserted to the Prussian army with Napoleon's plans. King Louis XVIII of France gave him a command in the Spanish expedition of 1823.
Promoted to Marshal of France, he was put in command of the Invasion of Algiers in 1830. However, after the July Revolution, he refused to recognize King Louis-Philippe of France and was sacked. After being involved in a plot against the new government, he fled to Portugal in 1832. He led the army of Dom Miguel in the Liberal Wars, and when the liberals won, he fled to Rome. He accepted another amnesty, this time in 1840, and died in France six years later.
On the eve of the French Revolution, Bourmont entered the Gardes Françaises of the French royal army but he emigrated in 1789. Bourmont served in Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé royalist army in the campaigns of 1792 and 1793. Then he served as chief of staff in the civil war in lower Anjou from 1794 to 1796. After fleeing to Switzerland in 1796, he took part in another insurrection from 1798-1800. He was arrested in 1801 because of involvement with Georges Cadoudal, but three years later he managed to escape to Portugal.
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