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Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born January 25, 1739 • Cambrai • France
Died March 14, 1823 (aged 84) • Buckinghamshire • England
Political Affiliation Girondin
Role In Battle of Valmy • French Revolution • French Revolutionary wars

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Dumouriez, detail of a portrait by J. Rouillard; in the National Museum of Versailles and Trianons
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Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Wagram
marshal of France
François-Christophe Kellermann, portrait drawing by Jacques-Louis David; in the Musée de Besançon, France
François-Christophe Kellermann, duke de Valmy
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Jacques-Pierre Brissot
French revolutionary leader
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Ney, Michel
Michel Ney
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Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus
French military officer
André Masséna, duc de Rivoli
André Masséna, duc de Rivoli, prince d’Essling
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Dominique-René Vandamme, count of Unebourg
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Victor Moreau
Victor Moreau
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Hoche, etching, after a portrait by J. Duplessi-Bertaux
Lazare Hoche
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Jean-Baptiste-Robert Lindet
French revolutionary leader
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Claude Victor-Perrin, duke de Bellune
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Charles Pichegru, engraving, 1895.
Charles Pichegru
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Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois
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André Jeanbon Saint-André
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Armand-Louis de Gontaut, duke de Biron
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Jourdan, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Hilaire Le Dru
Jean-Baptiste, Count Jourdan
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Barthélemy-Catherine Joubert
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François-Séverin Marceau
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