page_title: Nicolas-Louis d'Assas
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolas-Louis d'Assas
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La mort du Chevalier d'Assas à Kloster Kampen en 1760, Dessin de F-J Casanova gravé par Devisse. texte sur le document&#160;: LA MORT DU CHEVALIER D'ASSAS Aklestercamp en 1760 "Une nuit les Français, tranquiles dans leur camp, Reposent sur les soins de leur chef vigilant; Dafsas veilloit pour tous à la Garde avancée, D'un bruit sourd, tout-a-coup, son oreille est frappée&#160;: Craignant quelque surprise, il y porte ses pas . Il demande&#160;: Qui vive&#160;? On ne lui répond pas . Intrépide, il avance...afsi-tôt on l'arête...Si tu parle, tu meurs&#160;: mais sa réponse est prête...Auvergne, à moi&#160;; tirez, ce sont les Ennemis . Il meurt victorieux, le camp n'est point surpris ." A Paris chez Alibert Jardin du Palais Royal et rue Fromenteau. Dessin par F-J Casanova Gravé par J.B Devifse.
context_page_description: Nicolas-Louis d'Assas, also known as Louis d'Assas du Mercou and Chevalier d'Assas, was a captain of the French Régiment d'Auvergne, whose celebrity depends on a single act of defiance.
  He was born in Le Vigan, Languedoc, France.
  Having entered a wood to reconnoitre it the night before the battle of Kloster Kampen in 1760, he was suddenly surrounded by the enemy English soldiers, and defied with bayonets at his breast to utter a cry of alarm; "To me, Auvergne! Here is the enemy!" he exclaimed, and fell dead on the instant, pierced with bayonets, to the saving of his countrymen.
context_section_description: Nicolas-Louis d'Assas (1733–1760), also known as Louis d'Assas du Mercou and Chevalier d'Assas, was a captain of the French Régiment d'Auvergne, whose celebrity depends on a single act of defiance.
  He was born in Le Vigan, Languedoc, France.
  Having entered a wood to reconnoitre it the night before the battle of Kloster Kampen in 1760, he was suddenly surrounded by the enemy English soldiers, and defied with bayonets at his breast to utter a cry of alarm; "To me, Auvergne! Here is the enemy!" he exclaimed, and fell dead on the instant, pierced with bayonets, to the saving of his countrymen.
caption: Death of Nicolas-Louis d'Assas the night before the battle of Kloster Kampen
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