Olivier Macoux Rivaud de la Raffinière explained

Olivier Macoux Rivaud de la Raffinière
Birth Date:10 February 1766
Birth Place:Civray, Vienne, France
Death Place:Angoulême, France
Allegiance: French First Republic,
First French Empire
Branch:Infantry
Rank:General of Division
Battles:French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
Awards:Légion d'honneur (Grand Cross)
Order of Saint Louis (Commander)
Name inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe,
Baron of the Empire

Olivier Macoux Rivaud, Baron de la Raffinière (pronounced as /fr/; 10 February 1766, in Civray, Vienne – 19 December 1839, in Angoulême) was a French infantry commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Military service

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Notes and References

  1. Arnold, 155 & 271
  2. Smith, 216
  3. Petre, 207
  4. Smith, 230. Smith names the division number in his Criwitz article.
  5. Smith, 231