Moreau

JEAN VICTOR, (mo-ro',) a French general, B. at Morlaix, 1763, chiefly distinguished himself as commander-in-chief of the army of Italy, 1799, and of the armies of the Danube and the Rhine, 1800, gaining that year the victories of Hochstadt and Hohenlinden. In 1804 he was removed from his command on suspicion of his complicity in the conspiracy of Pichegru, and exiled to the U. States. In 1813 he returned to Europe, coöperated with the Allies against his countrymen, and fell in the battle of Dresden, Aug. 27th of that ye arr. [s. 617]