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Guillaume Philibert Duhesme

(1766-1815)
Name
Duhesme
Nation
France
Rating
4" G(6)+1
Drop
-2
Validated forIV

Command Ratings

Division
4"G(6)+1
Points: 14
Cavalry or Temp Corps
6"G(4)+1
Points: 20
Corps
9"G(4)+1
Points: 26
Small Army
10"G(4)+1
Points: 38
Wing
11"G(4)+1
Points: 41
Medium Army
13"G(4)+1
Points: 47
Large Army
19"G(4)+1
Points: 65
Supreme HQ
27"G(4)+1
Points: 89

Commands

  • Commands the First Division of Army of the North at Fleurus (1794, age 28)
  • Commands the Fourth Division of French Army of Italy at Caldiero (1805, age 39)
  • Commands the Third Guard Division of Imperial Guard at Waterloo (1815, age 49) †
No biography is available for this general.
Wrote a tactical study of light infantry tactics. He was in disgrace for "monetary reasons" (many of the French generals were thorough and enthusiastic looters) and for extreme cruelty in the Peninsula War and retired 1810 – 1813. Returned to the emperor's favor, he was killed in action at Waterloo. Commissioned in 1789; X rank in 1794; X 94 Fleurus; XX rank 11/8/94; XX 00 Marengo camp.; XX 05-06 Italy – Caldiero; XXX 08 – 10 Spain - WLL; XX (YGD) 14 Brienne, Montereau, 2nd Bar-sur-Aub; XX (YGD) Ligny, Waterloo (MW – captured & died 6/20/15). (1766-1815)

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