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| Keywords: Gros-General Lariboisière and his son.jpg Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière and his son Ferdinand a lieutenant in the first company of the first squadron of the 1st Carabiniers-à-cheval at the Battle of Borodino in 1812 Ferdinand salutes his father before charging with his regiment He would be mortally wounded during the charge 1half otherdate century 19 oil Institution Musée de l'Armée http //www armchairgeneral com/forums/showthread php t 55906 page 16 From a webpost by Zouave on the http //www armchairgeneral com/forums/showthread php t 55906 page 16 forum at Armchairgeneral com on 24 April 2009 Ferdinand de Lariboisière in his gleaming brass cuirass son of the inspector general of the French artillery and a former page to Napoleon had been commissioned Sous-lieutenant in the 1st Company of the 1st Squadron in the 1st Carabinier regiment on 9 November 1811 The posthumous portrait by Gros shows us a confident young officer turning his head towards the regimental trumpeters who are calling the Brigade to charge during the battle of Borodino while bidding farewell to his father The story was that General de Lariboisière had positioned himself facing the Great Redoubt while the Carabinier brigade marched past to deploy for their charge Seeing his father the 21-year-old Lieutenant left the ranks to shake his hand Only moments later the young officer was hit by a ball After the battle some troopers of his company carried him to his father's tent Napoleon's own surgeon Alexandre Yvan removed the bullet that same night but Ferdinand died a few days later at Mojaisk other versions PD-old-100 Portrait paintings by Antoine-Jean Gros 19th-century portrait paintings in the Musée de l'Armée Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière 19th-century family portraits 19th-century oil portraits of sitting men at full length 19th-century oil portraits of standing men at full length wearing military uniforms Battle of Borodino in art Carabiniers-à-Cheval Cavalry of the Napoleonic period French cavalrymen of the Napoleonic Wars Mounted carabiniers | ||||
