Jean-Baptiste Solignac

Jean-Baptiste Solignac (15 March 1773 in Millau 11 November 1850 in Montpellier) was a French general, and the brother-in-law of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. He took part in the French Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Portuguese Civil Wars.

Career

On 28 September 1791, he was a soldier in the Vermandois regiment (which later became the 61st infantry regiment). He became a lieutenant then a captain in August and November 1792, in the 2nd Pyrénées-Orientales battalion, formed at Montpellier. He fought in the early campaigns of the French Revolutionary War in the armée des Pyrénées orientales and the Peninsular War where he was wounded fighting at the Battle of Vimeiro.[1]

References

  1. "The Battle of Vimeiro 21 August 1808 - Seeing them off in the 'same old style' for the first time". 19 August 2020.

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