Marc Antoine de Beaumont
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Marc-Antoine de Beaumont a French nobleman, became a page to the king and joined the army of the Old Regime. He stayed in the army during the French Revolution and narrowly escaped being executed. During the French Revolutionary Wars he fought in the 1796 Italian campaign under Napoleon Bonaparte, leading the cavalry at Lodi and Castiglione. In 1799 he was wounded in Italy but fought there again in late 1800.
General of Division Marc Antoine de Beaumont
Battle of Lodi by Lejeune. Beaumont led the cavalry across the river upstream from the bridge.
Battle of Castiglione or Monte Medolano
Marshal Murat leading dragoons at Jena.
Battle of Lodi
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The Battle of Lodi was fought on 10 May 1796 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian rear guard led by Karl Philipp Sebottendorf at Lodi, Lombardy. The rear guard was defeated, but the main body of Johann Peter Beaulieu's Austrian Army had time to retreat.
General Bonaparte gives his orders, in The Battle of Lodi, by Louis-François, Baron Lejeune
The French passing the bridge, (Musée de la Révolution française).
After seizing the bridge over the Adda, the French defeated the Austrians and proceeded to occupy Milan