Alexandre d'Alton
Contributions
- Projet de débarquement en Irlande translation translator
Knows
- Louis-Alexandre Berthier military
- Napoléon Bonaparte military politician writer
- Thomas Addis Emmet jurist physician writer
- Lazare Hoche military
- Theobald Wolfe Tone revolutionary writer
Member of
- French army military organization
Notes
Born Alexandre d'Alton (also written Dalton) to an exiled Irish officer and French mother. He initially enrolled in Berwick's Irish Regiment and had a brilliant military career, becoming aide-de-camp to General Lazare Hoche during the abortive Bantry Bay expedition to Ireland in 1796, and then to Louis-Alexandre Berthier (Minister of War from 1800-07) in 1800 and 1803. A veteran of multiple campaigns, including Italy, Germany, Haiti and the battle of Marengo (1800), he ended his career as one of Napoleon's Barons, a member of the Legion d'honneur and with his name engraved on the west pillar of the Arc de Triomphe. For further information, see Sylvie Kleinman, 'Translation, the French language and the United Irishmen (1792-1804)' (PhD, Dublin, 2005, online).