Giacomo Antonio Pasqual (sometimes Giacomo Pasquale) called Saint Jacques (Sagliano Micca, July 25, 1778 - Grenoble, 1823) was an Italian patriot and military who served, demonstrating heroism, the Piedmontese army of the Kingdom of Sardinia and, later, the French Army of the First Empire. Biography modifies wikitesto
Giacomo Antonio Pasqual, born in Falletti village of Sagliano, in 1799 he enlisted as soldier-miner in the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia, just like the famous fellow citizen Pietro Micca a few decades ago, and was destined at first at the presidency of the Turin Citadel.
Encouraged by Napoleon's army, which in the meantime extended his hegemony even to Piedmont with the birth of the Subalpine Republic, Giacomo Pasqual was sent to fight in the Spanish Independence War where he participated in the siege of Zaragoza. / p>
In 1813 Giacomo Pasqual was tasked with directing the defense of the Fort of Monzon in Aragon besieged by the Spaniards. With only one hundred soldiers available, Pasqual resisted for four months the assault of about three thousand better equipped Spanish soldiers, giving evidence of great heroism several times; nicknamed for this Saint Jacques by the French, in 1823 was awarded the prestigious Legion d'Honore. Giacomo Antonio Pasqual died the same year in Grenoble. Notemodify wikitesto
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