Jean-Baptiste Solignac

Jean-Baptiste Solignac

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Jean-Baptiste Solignac (15 March 1773 in Millau – 11 November 1850 in Montpellier) was a French general, and the brother-in-law of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. He took part in the French Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Portuguese Civil Wars.

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On 28 September 1791, he was a soldier in the Vermandois regiment (which later became the 61st infantry regiment). He became a lieutenant then a captain in August and November 1792, in the 2nd Pyrénées-Orientales battalion, formed at Montpellier. He fought in the early campaigns of the French Revolutionary War in the armée des Pyrénées orientales and the Peninsular War where he was wounded fighting at the Battle of Vimeiro.^[1]

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• Mullié, Charles (1852). "Solignac (Jean-Baptiste), baron" . Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850  (in French). Paris: Poignavant et Compagnie.
• https://www.dukeofwellington.org/post/the-battle-of-vimeiro-21-august-1808