Diplome Légion d'Honneur

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Diplome to Capitaine Pierre-Eloi Francois Marie Joseph BOUTON D'AGNIERES
Chevalier de l'empire Français   Légion d’honneur

Pierre-Eloi Francois Marie Joseph BOUTON D'AGNIERES born 29th March 1780, Pas-de-Calais, Béthune, and belonged to an old noble family, most likely enlisted into the 13eme Regiment des Chasseurs a Cheval formed on the 5 March 1793 on the 20th of November 1796 (aged 16) later renamed 14eme Regiment des Chasseurs a Cheval d’Arras.
The regiment had previously taken part in the War in the Vendée (1793) and Army of the North (1794).
In November 1796 when Pierre-Eloi enlisted the regiment was part of the Armée des côtes de Brest, with its role to defend France from invasion (a good enough reason to enlist)
In 1799 the regiment redeployed to Armée d'Italie a field army of the French Army stationed on the Italian border.
Napoleon had taken command in 1796 and had purged the Armée d’Italie of royalists and improved pay and resupply.
The regiment was deployed almost immediately and Pierre-Eloi and his regiment under Chef-de-brigade Jacques Boudet was engaged at the battle of Fossano an engagement between a Habsburg Austrian army commanded by Michael von Melas and a Republican French army under Jean Étienne Championnet.
Pierre-Eloi was wounded by a sabre blow to the head during the battle and was awarded the sabre d’honneur
In 1800 his regiment took part in the Battle of Montebello, in which the French defeated an Austrian army (9 June 1800) during this battle his left leg was shattered by shrapnel, and he was sent to the village of Bormida, in north-western Italy to recuperate.
On the 2 November 1805 Maréchal des Logis Pierre-Eloi Francois Marie Joseph Bouton d’Agniers was awarded the Légion d’honneur by Napoleon (Nomination confirmed, Décret 17 March 1821).
He returned home to Bethune in 1906 and refused a military pension as his family was wealthy
He married Mélanie Aimée Joseph DUPUICH in 1807 (Children Mélanie 1808, Alfred 1820 and Constant Eloi 1815).
In 1807 he enlisted as Adjudant Major de la Garde Nationale d'élite du Pas de Calais, as a Captain-Adjutant-Major he takes part in the Escault campaigns 1809-10, Captain of the urban cohort of Béthune 28-1-1814 (Napoleon abdicates April 1814).
On Napoleons escape from Elba and on his orders, he musters 100 Royal volunteers and leaves for Lille on 25-3-1815 to defend the King but stops at La Bassée because the king has left.
In 1817 appointed by the king member of the municipal council of Bethune. 
Captain of the Grenadier Company of the National Guard of Béthune in 1833 in command of 130 men and 120 gunners de Béthune 
Commander of the detachment of volunteers who went to the aid of Paris from 23 to 26-6-1848, during the French Revolution of 1848 (also known as the February Revolution) that ended the July Monarchy and established the French Second Republic.
He returned home to his business as a merchant brewer, Eloi died at home in 1854
His son Constant Eloi was born in 1815 and became a Medicin Major with the 125e régiment d'infanterie and was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1869 and served in the Crimea, China, and Italy, in Algeria 1840 distinguished himself with a squadron of hussars at the massacre of Sidi Brahim he took part in the Franco-Prussian war and was in charge the ambulance of the Church of St Elisabeth in Paris during the Paris Commune.

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On 15/06/2023 at 08:33, dante said:

Diplome to Capitaine Pierre-Eloi Francois Marie Joseph BOUTON D'AGNIERES
Chevalier de l'empire Français   Légion d’honneur

Pierre-Eloi Francois Marie Joseph BOUTON D'AGNIERES born 29th March 1780, Pas-de-Calais, Béthune, and belonged to an old noble family, most likely enlisted into the 13eme Regiment des Chasseurs a Cheval formed on the 5 March 1793 on the 20th of November 1796 (aged 16) later renamed 14eme Regiment des Chasseurs a Cheval d’Arras.
The regiment had previously taken part in the War in the Vendée (1793) and Army of the North (1794).
In November 1796 when Pierre-Eloi enlisted the regiment was part of the Armée des côtes de Brest, with its role to defend France from invasion (a good enough reason to enlist)
In 1799 the regiment redeployed to Armée d'Italie a field army of the French Army stationed on the Italian border.
Napoleon had taken command in 1796 and had purged the Armée d’Italie of royalists and improved pay and resupply.
The regiment was deployed almost immediately and Pierre-Eloi and his regiment under Chef-de-brigade Jacques Boudet was engaged at the battle of Fossano an engagement between a Habsburg Austrian army commanded by Michael von Melas and a Republican French army under Jean Étienne Championnet.
Pierre-Eloi was wounded by a sabre blow to the head during the battle and was awarded the sabre d’honneur
In 1800 his regiment took part in the Battle of Montebello, in which the French defeated an Austrian army (9 June 1800) during this battle his left leg was shattered by shrapnel, and he was sent to the village of Bormida, in north-western Italy to recuperate.
On the 2 November 1805 Maréchal des Logis Pierre-Eloi Francois Marie Joseph Bouton d’Agniers was awarded the Légion d’honneur by Napoleon (Nomination confirmed, Décret 17 March 1821).
He returned home to Bethune in 1906 and refused a military pension as his family was wealthy
He married Mélanie Aimée Joseph DUPUICH in 1807 (Children Mélanie 1808, Alfred 1820 and Constant Eloi 1815).
In 1807 he enlisted as Adjudant Major de la Garde Nationale d'élite du Pas de Calais, as a Captain-Adjutant-Major he takes part in the Escault campaigns 1809-10, Captain of the urban cohort of Béthune 28-1-1814 (Napoleon abdicates April 1814).
On Napoleons escape from Elba and on his orders, he musters 100 Royal volunteers and leaves for Lille on 25-3-1815 to defend the King but stops at La Bassée because the king has left.
In 1817 appointed by the king member of the municipal council of Bethune. 
Captain of the Grenadier Company of the National Guard of Béthune in 1833 in command of 130 men and 120 gunners de Béthune 
Commander of the detachment of volunteers who went to the aid of Paris from 23 to 26-6-1848, during the French Revolution of 1848 (also known as the February Revolution) that ended the July Monarchy and established the French Second Republic.
He returned home to his business as a merchant brewer, Eloi died at home in 1854
His son Constant Eloi was born in 1815 and became a Medicin Major with the 125e régiment d'infanterie and was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1869 and served in the Crimea, China, and Italy, in Algeria 1840 distinguished himself with a squadron of hussars at the massacre of Sidi Brahim he took part in the Franco-Prussian war and was in charge the ambulance of the Church of St Elisabeth in Paris during the Paris Commune.

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