 He conducted this battalion, which was attached to the "Northern Army", with which he conducted his military campaigns in 1792 and 1793.As superior officer, he was noticed in Lille, in Anvers, and in Lawfeld; was made a prisoner of war in Quesnoy September 13, 1793, and was brought to Hungary.He was exchanged during year IV of the French Republican Calendar, and served in the inferior army until its suppression, but remained in Paris, from the month of "vendémiaire" of year V to the 30th of "germinal", year VII, as leader of the half-brigade during the Battle of Montebello (1800).