Jean Jacques Ambert

JeanJacques Ambert commanded a French division in several engagements during the French Revolutionary Wars. He embarked on a French ship of the line during the American Revolutionary War and saw several actions. At the start of the French Revolutionary Wars he commanded a battalion and thereafter enjoyed fast promotion. He led a division in action at Kaiserslautern in 1793, Kaiserslautern in 1794, Luxembourg, Handschusheim, and Mannheim in 1795, and Kehl in 1796. His career later suffered eclipse because of his association with two French army commanders suspected of treason. He spent much of the Napoleonic Wars commanding a Caribbean island, clearing his name, and filling interior posts. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

Ambert was born onSeptember 1765 at SaintCr in what later became the department of Lot. His parents were Jacques Ambert and Marianne Rouchon. In 1780 he shipped as a volunteer aboard the Pluton during the American Revolutionary War. During that conflict he participated in the Battle of Martinique during the attempted recapture of Saint Lucia in 1780 and in the successful Invasion of Tobago in May and June 1781. The Pluton was also engaged at the Battle of the Chesapeake onSeptember 1781. Later, the ship was part of Admiral LouisPhilippe de Vaudreuils squadron which fought at the Battle of the Saintes in April 1782. The Pluton survived that defeat because it called at Portsmouth, New Hampshire onOctober 1782. Ambert returned to France in 1783.

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