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Moreau, Jean Victor

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Moreau, Jean Victor (zhäN vēktôr` môrō`), 1763–1813, French general in the French Revolutionary Wars French Revolutionary Wars, wars occurring in the era of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic era, the decade of 1792–1802. The wars began as an effort to defend the Revolution and developed into wars of conquest under the empire.
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. Despite his successes on the Rhine and in Germany (1796–97), he was dismissed for withholding compromising information about General Pichegru Pichegru, Charles (shärl pēshgrü`), 1761–1804, French general in the French Revolutionary Wars .
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 after the coup of 18 Fructidor Fructidor (frŭk`tĭdôr, Fr. früktēdôr`), 12th month of the French Revolutionary calendar .
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 (1797); he was later reinstated (Apr., 1799) at the head of the French army in Italy. After helping Napoleon Bonaparte in the coup of 18 Brumaire he was given command (1800) in Germany and routed the Austrians at Hohenlinden. At the conclusion of the war Moreau began to oppose Bonaparte. Informed of the royalist Cadoudal Cadoudal, Georges (zhôrzh käd
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 plot, he neither joined nor revealed it; after its discovery he was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment for two years. The sentence was commuted to exile, which he spent in Spain and America. Returning to Europe in 1813, he assisted the allies as an adviser in their war against Napoleon, but was killed in battle.


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