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| | Jean Baptiste, Count Jourdan - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | JEAN BAPTISTE JOURDAN, Count (1762-1833), marshal of France, was born at Limoges on the 29th of April 1762, and in his boyhood was apprenticed to a silk merchant of Lyons. |
 | | But the archduke, slipping away from Moreau, threw his whole weight on Jourdan, who was defeated at Amberg and Wiirzburg, and forced over the Rhine after a severe rearguard action, which cost the life of Marceau. |
 | | When the war was renewed in 1799 Jourdan was placed at the head of the army on the Rhine, but again underwent defeat at the hands of the archduke Charles at Stockach (March 25), and, disappointed and broken in health, handed over the command to Massena. |
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