Jean-Charles Pichegru

Jean-Charles Pichegru
Jean-Charles Pichegru
	Engraving of Pichegru after a 1795 portrait by Charles Howard Hodges
Born	16 February 1761; Arbois or Les Planches-près-Arbois, France
Died	5 April 1804 (aged 43); Paris, France
Allegiance	Kingdom of France ; French First Republic
Branch	French Royal Army ; French Revolutionary Army
Service years	1783–1797
Rank	Divisional general
Conflicts	French Revolutionary Wars Flanders campaign Battle of Haguenau; Battle of Froeschwiller (1793); Battle of Courtrai (1794); Siege of Ypres (1794); Battle of Boxtel; Battle of Puiflijk; ; ;

Divisional-General Jean-Charles Pichegru (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʃaʁlə piʃˈɡʁy]; 16 February 1761 – 5 April 1804) was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Under his command, French troops overran the Austrian Netherlands and Dutch Republic in the Flanders campaign before fighting on the Rhine front. Pichegru's Royalist views subsequently led to his fall from grace and imprisonment in Cayenne following the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After escaping into exile in London and joining the staff of Alexander Korsakov, he returned to France and planned the Pichegru Conspiracy to remove Napoleon from power, which led to his arrest and suicide. Despite Pichegru's defection, his surname is one of the names inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe.