Jean-Jacques Ambert
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Jean-Jacques Ambert commanded a French division in several engagements during the French Revolutionary Wars. He embarked on a French ship of the line during the American Revolutionary War and saw seve
Jean Jacques Ambert
Ambert's division was on the wrong side of the Neckar River when Dufour's division was crushed at the Battle of Handschuhsheim.
The tomb of Ambert is at Fort Delgrès in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
Battle of Handschuhsheim
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The Battle of Handschuhsheim or Battle of Heidelberg saw an 8,000-man force from Habsburg Austria under Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich face 12,000 men from the Republican French army led by Georges Jose
Jean-Jacques Ambert
…commanded a battalion and thereafter enjoyed a fast promotion. He led a division in action at Kaiserslautern in 1793, Kaiserslautern in 1794, Luxembourg, Handschusheim, and Mannheim in 1795, and Kehl in 1796. His career later suffered an eclipse because of his association with two French army commanders suspected of…
Peter Quosdanovich
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