Philipe de Rullecort | |
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%2c_Baron_de_Rullecourt.jpg) Philipe, Baron de Rullecort | |
| Born | (1744-07-09)9 July 1744 |
| Died | 7 January 1781(1781-01-07) (aged 36) |
| Allegiance |  France |
| Branch | French Royal Army |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles / wars | Invasion of Jersey (1779) Battle of Jersey |
ColonelPhilipe Charles Félix Macquart, Baron de Rullecourt (9 July 1744 – 7 January 1781) was aFrench Royal Army officer who served in theAmerican Revolutionary War. In 1781, he was mortally wounded commanding the attempted invasion of Jersey at theBattle of Jersey.
Philipe Charles Félix Macquart was born inArtois in a wealthy family originating inOrléans, although his title "Baron de Rullecourt" was self-bestowed. He was working as a soldier for hire, when he was placed in command ofFrench Royal Army troops during thefailed French invasion of Jersey in 1779, as second-in-command toKarl Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen.
Two years later, he launchedanother invasion attempt on Jersey. Rullecourt's second-in-commandMir Sayyad advised him to ransack the island and to kill all its civilians, but instead he captured the island's governorMoses Corbet, and used him as a tool to try and engineer a British surrender. But the British troops on the island refused to surrender, and Rullecourt was mortally wounded in the following battle in which the British outnumbered the French. Rullecourt died a day later of his wounds, in the modern-day Peirson Pub. He had failed in his attempt to bluff the British into surrender.
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