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Jean-François Joseph Debelle (22 May 1767, in Voreppe, Isère – 15 June 1802, in Saint-Raphaël) was a French general and soldier.
He fought at the Battle of Fleurus (as a brevet général de brigade).[citation needed] In 1796 he held command of the artillery of the Army of Sambre and Meuse and was granted command of the artillery attached to the expedition to Ireland.[1] He headed the Armée d'Italie's artillery in its retreat to France after the Battle of Novi,[citation needed] and participated in the Saint-Domingue expedition, on which he died aged 34 of yellow fever.[2] On 10 March his father was granted a pension of 1,500 francs, which passed to Debelle's widow on his death. Debelle is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 6 of the north pillar. He was a friend and brother-in-law to general Lazare Hoche and the brother to general César Alexandre Debelle.[citation needed]
References
edit- ↑ Tone, Theobald Wolfe (1998). The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763-98: America, France, and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796. Clarendon Press. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-19-820879-2.
- ↑ Rainsford, Marcus (21 January 2013). An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti. Duke University Press. p. 313. ISBN 978-0-8223-5288-4.
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