Elzéard Auguste Cousin de Dommartin

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Elzéard Auguste Cousin de Dommartin
1768 – 1799

Place of birth Dommartin-le-Franc
Place of death Rosetta
Allegiance Kingdom of France,
French Republic / Directory
Service/branch Artillery
Years of service 1785-1799
Rank acting général de division
Battles/wars Toulon, Rhine, Egypt

Elzéard Auguste Cousin de Dommartin (26 May 1768, Dommartin-le-Franc –9 August 1799, Rosetta) was a French general, who commanded the artillery division of the Armée d'Orient during the French invasion of Egypt in 1798.

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He received his first commission in 1785, serving at as captain of the artillery until seriously wounded during the siege of Avignon on the way to besiege Toulon (his replacement being his second-in-command Bonaparte, whose subsequent siege was his first success). He then served in Italy, before being appointed commander of the artillery of the Rhine in 1797. Bonaparte then chose him in 1798 to command the artillery in his taskforce for the invasion of Egypt (as acting général de division). During that campaign, Dommartin organised the sieges of El Arish and Acre, but was wounded in a skirmish and died of blood poisoning. His name is engraved on the south side of the Arc de Triomphe.

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