Augustin Daniel Belliard (25 May 1769-28 January 1832) was a French general who served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Biography[]
Augustin Daniel Belliard was born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendee, France in 1769. He served under Charles Dumouriez in the Austrian Netherlands and under Lazare Hoche and Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy during the French Revolutionary Wars, reaching the rank of brigadier-general by 1796. He participated in Napoleon's 1798 Egyptian Campaign and was appointed Governor of Upper Egypt after the Battle of the Pyramids, advancing into Nubia. He played a major role in the taking of Cairo, fighting at the Battle of Heliopolis. He was forced to surrender Cairo to the British and Ottomans on 22 June 1801 after becoming trapped in the city. From 1805 to 1807, he served under Joachim Murat in Europe, and he was made governor of Madrid by King Joseph Bonaparte in 1809. Belliard later participated in the German campaign of 1813 and the defense of France, and he was severely wounded at the 1814 Battle of Craonne. After Napoleon's abdication, he was made a Peer of France, but his loyalty to Napoleon during the Hundred Days resulted in a month-long imprisonment and the brief revocation of his peerage until he regained it in 1819. He died in 1832.