Pierre-Joseph Bourcet
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Pierre-Joseph Bourcet was a French tactician, general, chief of staff, mapmaker and military educator. He was the son of Daniel-André Bourcet and of Marie-Magdeleine Legier.
Bourcet maignien portrait
The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740 to 1748, was a conflict between the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related conflicts include King
Pierre-Joseph Bourcet
…correspondence with smaller Italian states, he was in 1744 an aide-marechal des logis, which is an assistant to a French chief of staff during the War of the Austrian Succession. An expert in mountain warfare, military engineering and fortifications, he devised the French invasion of Piedmont that led up to the Battle of Madonna…
Left to right: Capture of the Nuestra Señora de Covadonga (20 April 1743) Fontenoy (11 May 1745) Hohenfriedberg (4 June 1745) Siege of Bergen op Zoom (14 July – 18 September 1747)
Maria Theresa, whose succession was the proximate cause of the war
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, who entered the war by the September Treaty of Worms
Louis XV by Maurice Quentin de La Tour