Lazare hoche biography of rory leave

Louis Lazare Hoche [lwi la. He won a victory over Royalist forces in Brittany. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe , on Column 3. Richard Holmes describes him as "quick-thinking, stern, and ruthless In , Hoche began working as an aide at the royal stables, but soon left in order to join the Army. He entered the French Guards regiment as a fusilier in October , although he originally intended to serve with the colonial troops in the East Indies.

Hoche first saw action in the defence of Thionville in , as a lieutenant, in the early stages of the Flanders campaign of the Revolutionary Wars, and took part in the Siege of Namur at the end of the year. When Charles Dumouriez defected to the Austrians , Hoche, along with Le Veneur and others, fell under suspicion of treason.

On 22 December he won the Battle of Froeschwiller , [ 2 ] and the representatives on mission with his army at once added the Army of the Rhine to his sphere of command. He then put his troops into winter quarters at Bouzonville. In December , when the three armies previously under his command Armies of the West, of the Coasts of Brest and of the Coasts of Cherbourg merged to form the new Army of the Coasts of the Ocean , Hoche became the supreme commander of all Republican forces in Western France.

Thereafter, by means of mobile columns which he kept under good discipline , he gradually eliminated the Catholic and Royal Armies. On 20 July , Hoche was rewarded by the French Directory for his immense service.

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He survived an assassination attempt in Rennes on 16 October, when a worker at the local arsenal fired at him but missed. With the United Irish leader, Wolfe Tone , who was to have landed with him in Ireland, Hoche reflected critically on the violent course of the Revolution. Tone, "heartily glad" to find Hoche of "a humane temperament", wrote in his memoirs: [ 5 ].