Dominique-René Vandamme, count of Unebourg

Dominique-René Vandamme, count of Unebourg (born November 5, 1770, Cassel, near Dunkirk, France—died July 1, 1830, Cassel) was a French general in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Vandamme, of petit bourgeois origins, enlisted in the French army as a private in a regiment serving in Martinique (1788). Two years later he deserted and returned to civilian life in France. A supporter of the French Revolution, he enlisted in the French army as a private...