Désilles mortally wounded while trying to stop fighting between mutineers and troops during the Nancy Mutiny.

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Désilles throwing himself in front of a cannon and receiving mortal wounds while trying to stop fighting between mutineers and troops during The Nancy Mutiny at the start of the French Revolution in 1790. André or Antoine-Joseph-Marc Désilles, 1767 -1790. Junior French army officer in the French Revolution. From a contemporary print.

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