Pichegru
CHARLES (peezh'groo), a French military officer; born in Arbois, France, Feb. 16, 1761, of humble parents, but receiving a good education under the monks of his native town.
Entering the army he soon rose to the rank of general and in 1794 succeeded General Hoche in the command of the Army of the North. He shortly after relieved Landau, and compelled the English to evacuate the Netherlands. He next marched into Holland, of which he made a complete conquest, and, in 1797, was elected a member of the Legislative body; but his opposition to the Directory, and his speeches in favor of the royalist emigrants, occasioned an accusation against him as designing to remembers are: (1) ÆNEAS SYLVIUS store royalty. Without trial he was BARTHOLOMÆUS, afterward Pope Pius II. (2) OCTAVIO, a grand-nephew of the first; born in 1599, died in Vienna transported to Cayenne, whence he escaped to England. In 1804 he returned to Paris, was again apprehended and sent to the Temple, where he was found strangled in his bed, April 5, 1804.
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