Pierre Louis Binet de Marcognet
PierreLouis Binet de Marcognet joined the French army in 1781 as an officer cadet and fought in the American Revolutionary War. During the French Revolutionary Wars he fought in the Army of the Rhine and was wounded at First and Second Wissembourg. After being dismissed from the army for a year and a half for having noble blood, he resumed his military career and was wounded at Biberach and Kehl. Promoted to lead the 108th Line Infantry DemiBrigade, he was in the thick of the fighting at Hohenlinden in 1800, where he was wounded and captured.
Marcognet was born onNovember 1765 in CroixChapeau in Saintonge province, which is now the CharenteMaritime department. His parents were LouisNicolas, Count of Marcognet and SuzanneEmilie Pintault, the counts first wife SuzanneLouise Guicheneux having died onMarch 1764. His greatgrandfather, the Marquis de Montblin had been governor of La Rochelle, Saintonge, and Aunis. Marcognet entered the Bourbonnais Infantry Regiment as a cadet onMarch 1781 and became a sous lieutenant in July. He served in the American Revolutionary War under JeanBaptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau from 1781 to 1783. Promoted to lieutenant in 1787 and captain in 1792, he was assigned to the Army of the Rhine at the start of the War of the First Coalition. Marcognet was wounded in the right thigh onSeptember 1793 in fighting along the Lauter River. This was one of the skirmishes that preceded the First Battle of Wissembourg. In November he earned a name for himself in action near Saver
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