Claude François Ferey Claude François Ferey , Baron de Rozengath ( 21 September 1771 – 22 July 1812 ) became a division commander during the Napoleonic Wars and was killed fighting the British in Spain . In 1787 he joined the French Royal Army and became an officer in 1792 . During the French Revolutionary Wars he fought at Mainz and in the Vendée . Appointed commander of the 24th Light Infantry Demi - Brigade in 1796 , he led his unit at Neuwied , Montebello , and Marengo . Promoted to general of brigade in 1803 , he led a brigade at Austerlitz , Jena , Lübeck , Bergfried , Eylau , Lomitten , and Heilsberg . Posted to Spain , he led his brigade at Bussaco and Casal Novo . After elevation to general of division , he commanded his division at Fuentes de Onoro . At the end of the Battle of Salamanca his division held off the victorious Anglo - Portuguese , while the rest of the army escaped . He was killed in this action . His surname is one of the Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe , on Column 38 . Career . At the Battle of Salamanca on 22 July 1812 , Ferey commanded the 3rd Division of the Army of Portugal , with 5 , 689 men in nine battalions and attached artillery . The 3rd Division was composed of three battalions of the 47th Line Infantry Regiment and two battalions each of the 31st Light , 26th Line , and 70th Line Infantry Regiments . Marshal Auguste Marmont attempted to turn the right flank of the Anglo - Portuguese army by marching his left flank divisions to the west . When the French divisions became too widely extended , Arthur Wellesley , Earl of Wellington attacked them . The left flank divisions of Jean Guillaume Barthélemy Thomières and Antoine Louis Popon de Maucune were quickly routed . Next , British heavy dragoons broke Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand ' s division . While these events were going on , Marmont and his ranking division commander Jean Pierre François Bonet were both wounded by bursting shells , leaving Bertrand Clausel in command of the army . Meanwhile , the divisions of Clausel and Bonet crushed Lowry Cole ' s Anglo - Portuguese division . Clausel sent Jacques Thomas Sarrut ' s division to assist his mauled left flank and tried to exploit the success in the center . But Wellington rapidly brought up his reserves and defeated the two attacking divisions . With the beaten French army streaming to the rear , Ferey ' s division appeared on the scene . Ferey deployed seven battalions in three - deep lines with his remaining two battalions in square covering each flank . A short distance behind his line was the Pelagarcia Wood . The initial attack of Henry Clinton ' s Anglo - Portuguese division was brought to a halt and a terrific musketry duel began . At length , Ferey ' s men backed up to the skirts of the forest . Clinton brought up his Portuguese brigade from the second line , but these men could not stand the fire and fell back . By now the French ranks were being raked by artillery fire . As Clinton sent forward his British troops , pressure from James Leith ' s division finally collapsed Ferey ' s left flank . The wreckage of his division managed a fighting retreat through the woods until joined by Maximilien Sebastien Foy ' s division . Ferey was killed and 1 , 000 of his troops became casualties during the fighting . A different Claude François Ferey was born on 22 December 1723 , attained the rank of general of brigade on 25 August 1793 , and died on 6 January 1806 .