Pierre Cambronne

Brigadier General

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambronne

Viscount Cambronne
Portrait of Cambronne, 1815
Born(1770-12-26)26 December 1770
Nantes, France
Died29 January 1842(1842-01-29) (aged 71)
Nantes, France
AllegianceFrench First Republic
First French Empire
Kingdom of France
BranchFrench Army
Service years1792–1823
RankBrigadier General
ConflictsFrench Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
AwardsOfficer of the Legion of Honour

Pierre Jacques Étienne, 1st Viscount Cambronne (26 December 1770 – 29 January 1842), was a general of the First French Empire. A main strategist of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, he was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo.

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