Anthony Boldewijn Gijsbert van Dedem
Anthony Boldewijn Gijsbert van Dedem, Baron van de Gelder, France known as Antoine Baudouin Gisbert de Dedem de Gelder (Olst-Wijhe, August 24, 1774 - Pievepelago, August 15, 1825) was a Dutch general who served in 'army of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vitamodifica wikitesto
He was born in 1774 in the family residence of Gelder, near Wijhe. He was appointed as a young man of important offices in 1795 as a plenipotentiary minister of his country in Stockholm and Paris. Returning to his homeland in 1798, the following year he enlisted in the British Army during the Second Coalition War, and became a prisoner.
In 1801 he was again in diplomatic service. In 1806 he was promoted to General and sent ambassador to Naples and then to Kassel. After the annexation of the Netherlands to the French Empire he went to the service of France, and was the Count of the Empire and Brigade General.
During the Russian campaign of 1812 he commanded a brigade under the marshal Gioacchino Murat. In 1814, with the Restoration, his request to return to the service of the Netherlands was rejected by William I; He remained in France, where he had the military command of the Jura department. His last years of life spent in Italy, where he died in 1825. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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