Frédéric Henri Walther Military person

Frédéric-Louis-Henri Walther (20 June 1761 – 24 November 1813), was an Alsatian-born general of division and a supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte. He fought for France in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.He enlisted in 1781 and, in his 30-year career, he saw action at the major French defeats and victories in Europe. He fought in André Masséna's Army of Switzerland, where he participated in the Winterthur and First and Second Battles of Zürich, the campaigns of 1806 against Prussia, and Napoleon's invasion of Russia. After the Russian and Saxon campaign, while suffering from exhaustion, he contracted typhus and died in Kusel, in the Saarland. He was buried at the Panthéon, and his name is listed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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Frédéric Henri Walther
Birth dateJune 20, 1761
Birth place
Alsace , Bas-Rhin , Obenheim
Date of deathNovember 24, 1813
Place of death
Rhineland-Palatinate , Kusel (district) , Sarre (department)

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allegiance22px France
award
Arc de Triomphe
Order of the Iron Crown
Legion of Honour
Nobility of the First French Empire
military operations
War of the Second Coalition
Napoleonic Wars
War of the First Coalition
military branch
French Army
service start1781
service end1813

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External resources

  1. http://www.napoleon-series.org
  2. http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/frenchguard/c_guardcav1.html
  3. http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/commanders/c_walther.html