MONCEY (Bon-Adrien Jeannot, de). - Lot 166

MONCEY (Bon-Adrien Jeannot, de). Born in Moncey. 1754-1842. General during the Revolution and Marshal of the Empire. Duke of Conegliano. L.S. " Moncey et " M " au citoyens Garrau et Baudot. 7 frimaire an 3 [27 novembre 1794]. 2 pp. in-4. Moncey reports on recent events concerning the enemy's advance during the Spanish War: ...The enemy (...) having been unable to obtain on the fourth (frimaire) all the advantage he had promised himself from his attack, wanted to return the next day to continue the course of his brilliant successes....he attacked a battery of chasseurs and grenadiers, who ...after a long and stubborn fight beat them completely, killed a thousand men and took a few prisoners, including a colonel and a few officers... All the posts were taken back from the enemy, as well as Castelbert, where thirty prisoners were taken. According to the reports of generals Joseph Dumas and Jean Mauco ...it seems that Lennemy was planning to surround us on the left, where he was in great strength; if the center had been forced, a column coming from the Burguet heights would have taken us from behind, if Marbot [Jean-Antoine Marbot, division general in the Army of the Western Pyrenees] hadn't held firm. I was right to believe that Lennemy was massacring our right in order to strike from the left, and this circumstance must justify my obstinacy in keeping the grenadiers at Marbot. Republiquain valor alone triumphed over numbers and combination...