Jean Joseph Magdeleine Pijon
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Jean Joseph Magdeleine Pijon or Jean Pigeon was a French general who was killed in combat during the French Revolutionary Wars. He led an attack column at Loano in late 1795. He commanded a brigade in
Pijon was in André Masséna's division during most of the 1796 campaign.
Pijon was in Claude Victor's division at Magnano.
Pijon's name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe (near bottom left).
In the Montenotte campaign between 10 and 28 April 1796, General Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army of Italy broke the link between Feldzeugmeister Johann Peter Beaulieu's Austrian army and Feldmarschal
Jean Joseph Magdeleine Pijon
…inflicting 3,000 killed and wounded on their Austro-Sardinian opponents. In addition, the French captured 4,000 soldiers, 48 guns, and five colors. An order of battle for 4 April 1796 listed Pijon as a brigadier in Amédée Emmanuel François Laharpe's division in the Montenotte Campaign. Laharpe's division consisted…
1812 painting of the Battle of Montenotte by René Théodore Berthon