Siege Of Fort-Louis (1793)
Siege
General of Brigade Michel Durand's 4,500-strong garrison consisted of the 1st Battalions of the 4th Light, 37th Line and 40th Line Infantry Demi Brigades and the Strasbourg Volunteers, 3rd Battalions of the Gard and Saône-et-Loire Volunteers, and the 12th Battalion of the Vosges Volunteers. Dominique-André de Chambarlhac supervised the technical elements of the defense. Altogether, Fort-Louis mounted 111 artillery pieces. General-major Franz von Lauer commanded the 4,700-man besieging force which included a siege train of 55 guns. Lauer commanded three battalions of the Combined Bavarian Regiment, one battalion from the Hessian Leib Regiment, the Hessian Leib Grenadier Battalion, one Austrian battalion from an unknown regiment and two squadrons of the Szekler Hussar Regiment.
Notes
- ^ (in French) Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Courcelles,Dictionnaire universel de la noblesse de France, Au Bureau général de la noblesse de France,1822, pp. 73–74.
- ^ Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. p. 61. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
References
- Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
- "The Fortifications of Vauban: Fort-Louis". Unesco World Heritage. 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2014.