43:'s dragoon regiment (the future 2nd cavalry); he became brigadier 17 September 1777, quartermaster 15 April 1783, and Warrant Officer 1 October 1784. On May 1, 1788, he was a sous-lieutenant, lieutenant on 15 September 1791, and captain on 15 September 1792 . He served in that capacity in the campaigns of 1792–1793 at the Army of the Rhine, and was appointed squadron leader on 12 October 1793.
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