Alexis Balthazar Henri de Schauenburg

Alexis Balthazar Henri de Schauenburg (31 July 1748 – 1 September 1832) briefly commanded the Army of the Moselle in 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars. A nobleman, he joined the French Royal Army as a sous-lieutenant in 1764. The French Revolution led to rapid promotion and then to arrest for the crime of being an aristocrat. Later restored to command, he commanded Kehl in 1796 and invaded Switzerland in 1798. He served in Jean Victor Marie Moreau's army in 1800 and held commands in the interior under the First French Empire. He retired from the army in 1814 and died in 1832. Schawembourg is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 23.