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François Ignace Schaal, born and baptized on 5 December 1747 in Colmar (Alsace) and died on 30 August 1833 at Sélestat (Bas-Rhin), was a French general and statesman of the French Revolutionary Wars and the First Empire. He was one of six children (four of whom grew to adulthood) of Jean-Baptiste Schaal, a lawyer in Colmar and Anne Barbe Kubler.〔Jean-François Robinet, ''Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Révolution et de l ..., Volume 1''. Librairie historique de la Révolution et de l'Empire, 1898 , (p. 741 ).〕〔See also (cemetery transcription ). Accessed 18 March 2015.〕 ==Military career== He entered service on 1 August 1768, as an ensign in the artillery, and was appointed second lieutenant on 8 May 1770. When the French Revolution started, he was a captain in the Nassau Regiment (later the 96th regiment). He was raised to general of brigade provisionally on 8 March 1793, he was appointed major general on 13 June 1795.〔 Auguste Dide (ed), ''La Révolution française'', Société de l'histoire de la révolution française de Paris, 1884, vol IV, (p. 601 ). 〕 He was a Commander of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour on 17 October 1814, Knight of Order of St. Louis.〔 ''Acte de décès de François Ignace Schaal,'' dans les archives municipales de Sélestat (Sélestat, D, 1833, 4E462/57, Adeloch p. 50/83).〕 He married Josephine Aglaée Bon Fabry.〔Recueil, Volume 16, p. 68.〕 During the French Revolution, he was one of the commanders of the Republican army, especially during the Siege of Mainz (1792) and he distinguished himself in Cassel (Mainz). In 1793, shortly after the military reorganization, he was a lieutenant colonel of the 93rd Regiment, formerly the Duke of Enghien's regiment; the first battalion of this regiment served in the Army of the Rhine under Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine; the second at Strasbourg, and the grenadiers at Mainz.〔 Léon Hennet, ''Etat militaire de la France pour l'année 1793'', Société de l'histoire de la Révolution française, 1903, (pp. 161–162 ).〕 Although only a brigadier general, he commanded the Army of the Rhine from 14 February to 29 April 1795.〔Ramsey Weston Phipps, ''Armies of the First French Republic, vol II.'' Pickle Press, 2011, p. 205.〕 He had not sought command of the Army of the Rhine—indeed, Desaix, and others had flat out refused to take command and had finally convinced the Committee in Paris that Schaal was the man for the job, despite his being a brigadier and they, generals of division—but Schaal had taken the command against his better judgement and executed it as best he could. To give the others credit, they had followed his orders precisely, as uninspired as they were.〔Phipps, pp. 205–206.〕 At the 1795 engagement at Mainz, Schaal commanded two columns, one from the Army of the Rhine and the other from the Army of Moselle, that had been separated from their respective armies to take Mainz. However, when it came to the renewal of siege at Mainz, he commanded the united columns, one from each army, that comprised the ''Armée devant Mayence'' (the Army before Mainz). When the critical time came, however, Schaal was a mere figurehead implementing a strategy at Mainz that he had neither thought of, or approved. He entered retirement.〔Phipps, p. 239.〕 He tried to re-enter the military in 1799, seeking an appointment to Andre Massena's Army of Helvetia.〔 He entered full retirement on 4 September 1815.〔 His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, on the eastern side of the fourteenth column facing the Champs-Élysées.〔 Adolphe Le Reboullet, Eugène Seinguerlet, Charles Mehl, ''Revue alsacienne'', Volume 9, Nancy, Berger-Levrault et cie., 1886, (p. 509 ).〕 He was mayor of Sélestat from 1800–1807〔 François J. Himly, ''Chronologie de la basse Alsace: 1er-XXe siècle'', A.I.D. du Bas-Rhin, 1972, p. 187.〕 and a delegate of the Bas-Rhin to the Legislative Assembly from 1808–1812.〔 France. Assemblée nationale. ''Archives parlementaires de 1787 à 1860.'' France, 1867. (p. 10 ).〕 He was the father-in-law of General Henri-Jacques Martin de Lagarde, who married his daughter, Marie, Augustine (born 1796) in Mainz, on 1 February 1815.〔Ancestry.com. Alsace-Lorraine, France Citizenship Declarations (Optants), 1872 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. 〕〔(Legarde ) Specifically, ''Dictionnaire Historique et biographique des Généraux Français ''(Courcelles-1822).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「François Ignace Schaal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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