Philippe Hubert Preudhomme de Borre

Philippe Hubert, Chevalier de Preudhomme de Borre joined the French Army in 1740 and served in the War of the Austrian Succession. During the American Revolutionary War he traveled to America where he was presented as a military expert. Promoted to general officer, his career as a Continental Army officer was brief and undistingished. He resigned under a cloud and returned to France in 1779. His career ended in obscurity.

De Borre was born onSeptember 1717 at Lige. OnMay 1740 he joined the Regiment of Champagne as a volunteer. He was commissioned as a sous lieutenant onJuly 1741 and a lieutenant onApril 1742. He became a captain in the Duc de Bretagne Dragoon Regiment onAugust 1744. After having fought in Bavaria, Bohemia, and Flanders, de Borre was badly wounded during the passage of the Rhine River in 1745. He suffered four sword strokes to his head and one to his wrist. The latter injury crippled one of his hands for life.

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