Joseph-Pierre-Élisabeth de Peytes de Moncabrié

Who was Joseph-Pierre-Élisabeth de Peytes de Moncabrié?

Joseph-Pierre-Élisabeth Peytes de Montcabrié was French a soldier during the French Revolutionary Wars and superior officer in the Grande Armée during the Napoleonic Wars.

Born in 1771 in Toulouse, Pierre-Élisabeth Peytes de Montcabrié was the second son of the then ensign, later rear-admiral of the French Navy. While still very young, Pierre-Elisabeth was admitted at the École Militaire in Paris, subsequently serving in the French Revolutionary army during some of the campaigns of the Revolutionary Wars and gaining a promotion to superior officer. He then served in Napoleon's Grande Armée and was mortally wounded on 6 November 1806, at the battle of Lübeck, while serving as chief of staff of artillery in Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult's IV Corps. Pierre-Elisabeth Peytes de Montcabrié died on 8 November, as a result of the battle wound he had received two days before.