Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Death of Nicolas-Louis d'Assas the night before the battle of Kloster Kampen

"A moi d'Auvergne, voici les ennemis !"

From the wiki.
Nicolas-Louis d'Assas (1733–1760), also known as Louis d'Assas du Mercou and Chevalier d'Assas, was a captain of the French Régiment d'Auvergne, whose celebrity depends on a single act of defiance.

Having entered a wood to reconoitre it the night before the battle of Kloster Kampen in 1760, he was suddenly surrounded by the enemy English soldiers, and defied with bayonets at his breast to utter a cry of alarm; "To me, Auvergne! Here is the enemy!" he exclaimed, and fell dead on the instant, pierced with bayonets, to the saving of his countrymen.
His sword

Auvergne on the Seven Years War database

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