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3 unusual facts about Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz


Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz

As a cavalry man of the French Revolutionary Army during the War of the First Coalition campaigns of 1793 and 1794, Strolz served with the 1st Régiment de Chasseurs à Chéval in the Armée de la Moselle, fought in the expedition into Germany, notably in the taking of Trier and at the Battle of Arlon.

Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Baron de Strolz, born on 6 August 1771 in Belfort, France, died on 27 October 1841 in Paris, was a French General during the Napoleonic wars, Baron of the First French Empire, Member of Parliament and pair de France.

On 1 July 1815, Napoleon's Grande Armée fought its last battle in Rocquencourt and Le Chesnay, when Strolz' 2nd Cavalry Division, three battalions of the 44th Line Infantry Regiment, and a half battalion of the Sèvres National Guard hunted down Oberstleutnant Eston von Sohr's Prussian cavalry brigade, wrecking the 3rd Brandenburg and 5th Pommeranian Hussar Regiments.



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