Jean-Pierre Firmin Malher
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Jean-Pierre Firmin Malher
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| Born |
29 June 1761 Paris, France |
| Died |
13 March 1808 (aged 46) Valladolid, Spain |
| Allegiance |
 France
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| Rank | General of Division |
| Battles/wars |
French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars |
Jean-Pierre Firmin Malher (29 June 1761 – 13 March 1808) joined the army of the First French Republic and fought in the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Napoleonic Wars he rose in rank to command a division. He was accidentally killed in 1808 while on campaign in Spain. His surname is one of the Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.
Born in Paris, Malher enlisted in the French army. During the War of the First Coalition, he became a colonel in 1794. He received promotion to general of brigade in 1799 and to general of division in August 1803. At the latter date, he commanded the 2nd subdivision of the 13th Military Division, headquartered in Rennes.
When Emperor Napoleon I of France's Grande Armée moved against Habsburg Austria during the War of the Third Coalition, Malher commanded the 3rd Division in Marshal Michel Ney's VI Corps. His 8,000-man division included six battalions of the 27th, 50th, and 59th Line Infantry Regiments and three battalions of the 27th Light Infantry Regiment, plus six cannons. His subordinates were Generals of Brigade Mathieu Delabassé and Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet.
On 8 October, the VI Corps marched to Giengen, northwest of Ulm. The following day, Ney ordered Malher to move south and seize the bridges over the Danube near Günzburg. To accomplish this task, Malher formed three columns. The western column under Etienne Nicolas Lefol aimed for the bridge at Leipheim. This force gave up after following a road that ended in a marsh. The 59th Regiment formed the eastern column, which was directed toward a bridge on the east side of Günzburg. The central column, which contained most of three regiments, marched straight at Günzburg. These troops collided with a force of Tyrolean jagers under Konstantin Ghilian Karl d'Aspré to start the Battle of Günzburg.
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