Nicolas Broussier was a French soldier and officer.

Life

He first joined up as a volunteer in one of the many battalions which the Meuse

Meuse

Meuse is a department in northeast France, named after the River Meuse.-History:Meuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...

 department sent to the French frontier at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars

French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states...

, receiving a baptism of fire at Arlon

Battle of Arlon (1793)

The Battle of Arlon was an episode at the stronghold of Arlon on 9 June 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars.- Campaign :...

. During the 1801 campaign to the crossing of the Mincio

Mincio

Mincio is a river in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.Called the Sarca River before entering Lake Garda, it flows from there about 65 km past Mantua into the Po River....

 he was wounded again in pushing the enemy out of the village of Pazzolo at the head of some tirailleur

Tirailleur

Tirailleur literally means a shooting skirmisher in French from tir—shot. The term dates back to the Napoleonic period where it was used to designate light infantry trained to skirmish ahead of the main columns...

s of the 43rd. He was a legionnaire from 1803, when he became aide-de-camp to his cousin general Jean-Baptiste Broussier

Jean-Baptiste Broussier

Jean-Baptiste Broussier was a French Divisional General of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.-Life:Broussier was born in Ville-sur-Saulx....

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