Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (born 1762)

Jean-Étienne Championnet

French Army officer (1762–1800)

Jean-Étienne Vachier Championnet was a French Army officer who led a Republican French division in several important battles of the French Revolutionary Wars. He became commander-in-chief of the Army of Rome in 1798 and of the Army of Italy in 1799. He died in early 1800 of…