Background
Louis Joseph Lahure was born on November 29, 1767 in Mons in the Austrian Netherlands. He was the son of Nicolas Lahure and Marie-Thérèse du Buisson.
politician member of parliament in France
Louis Joseph Lahure was born on November 29, 1767 in Mons in the Austrian Netherlands. He was the son of Nicolas Lahure and Marie-Thérèse du Buisson.
He studied at the Old University of Leuven.
He had a brother, Germain Lahure. Lahure served in the Brabant Revolution in 1787. He moved to Lille in France in 1790.
He served in the Army of the North under General Nicolas Luckner.
He served in the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse. He became a general. Occupying Holland in January 1795, the French continental army learned that the Dutch navy had been frozen into the ice near Texel Island.
Lahure and 128 men simply rode up to it and demanded surrender. Number shots were fired and the Dutch fleet was captured.
Lahure became a naturalised French citizen.
He was also made a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis. He died on October 24, 1853 in his chateau in Wavrechain-sous-Faulx. His name is inscribed on the Arc de triomphe in Paris.