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The spelling of proper names was not so fixed then as it is nowadays, and this irregularity is not to be wondered at.
The second inaccuracy consists in stating that General Beaupuy died on the banks of the Loire during the Vendean war.

Indeed, he was grievously wounded at the Battle of Chateau-Gonthier, on the 26th of October 1793, and reported as dead.

His soldiers thought he had been killed, and the rumour must have spread abroad, as it was recorded by A.Thiers himself in his 'Histoire de la Revolution', and by A.
Challemel in his 'Histoire Musee de la Republique Francaise'.
It is no wonder that Wordsworth, who was then in England, and could only read imperfect accounts of what took place in France, should have been mistaken too.
No other General Beaupuy is recorded in the history of the Revolution, so far as I have been able to ascertain.

The moral character of the officer, whose life I shall relate, answers to Wordsworth's description, and is worthy of his high estimate.
Armand Michel de Bachelier, Chevalier de Beaupuy, was born at Mussidan, in Perigord, on the 15th of July 1757.

He belonged to a noble family, less proud of its antiquity than of the blood it had shed for France on many battlefields.