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| Tango01 | 09 Jan 2020 10:11 p.m. PST |
"The son of a lawyer from Besançon, Claude Pierre Pajol first joined the army in August of 1791 when he joined the 1st Battalion of Volunteers of Doubs. The next year he was commissioned as a sous lieutenant in the infantry, then promoted to lieutenant, and then he fought at Spire in September where he was wounded by two bayonet blows, one to the stomach and one to the left hand. In 1793 Pajol took part in the Siege of Mainz and during one of the many sorties his arm was broken. That August he returned to Besançon to recover from his wounds. In 1794 Pajol received a promotion to capitaine and he became an aide-de-camp to General Kléber. Serving with the Army of the Sambre and Meuse, he took an Austrian flag at the Battle of the Ourthe in September of 1794 and then two months later he took the captured flags from Maestricht back to the National Convention in Paris. Pajol continued to serve as Kléber's aide-de-camp throughout 1795 and he received a promotion to chef de bataillon in February of 1796. That July he transferred to the cavalry but he continued to serve with Kléber until the end of the year…"
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