Editing Jean-Andoche Junot (section)

==Early career==
[[File:General Jean Andoche Junot.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Junot as a sergeant of the grenadiers of the 2nd Côte-d'Or Battalion in 1792, by [[Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux|Félix Philippoteaux]] (1834)]]

On 9 July 1791, Junot was one of the founding members of his hometown's [[National Guard (France)|National Guard]], serving as captain of its 1st company.<ref name="Dubief"/> Later that year he enlisted as a [[grenadier]] in the 2nd Battalion of Volunteers of [[Côte-d'Or]].<ref name="Six">{{cite encyclopedia |title=JUNOT, duc d'ABRANTÈS (Jean-Andoche) |encyclopedia=Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Empire : 1792–1814 |volume=1 |first=Georges |last=Six |location=Paris |publisher=Librairie Historique et Nobilaire |date=1934 |pages=611–612 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k33369055/f635.item.texteImage |language=fr}}</ref> At the start of the [[War of the First Coalition]], Junot was sent to the [[Army of the North (France)|Army of the North]], receiving the first of many battle wounds at {{ill|La Glisuelle|fr|Combat de La Glisuelle}} on 11 June 1792.<ref name="Six"/> He was soon promoted to [[sergeant]], and was again injured on 16 May 1793 while serving in the [[Army of the Rhine]].<ref name="Six"/> During this time, Junot's comrades gave him the nickname "the Tempest" (''la Tempête'').<ref name="Dubief"/><ref name=FN/>

Junot first met then-captain [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] at the [[Siege of Toulon]], in late 1793: Bonaparte required a man with good handwriting to write a letter for him, which Junot volunteered to do, and made a lasting impression with his witty jokes after being narrowly missed by a cannonball.<ref name=FN/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Las Cases |first=Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné |title=Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. I) |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/53967/pg53967-images.html |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=www.gutenberg.org/ |language=en}}</ref> After the siege, Bonaparte was made a general and Junot joined him as his [[aide-de-camp]].<ref name=FN/> However, due to his connections to [[Augustin Robespierre]], Bonaparte lost his position and was briefly placed under house arrest. Junot and Auguste de Marmont offered to break him out, which the general declined, but went to them for assistance after his release. Junot, Marmont and Bonaparte, all temporarily unemployed, lived together in a rented room in Paris.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Marmont |first=Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de |url=https://archive.org/details/mmoiresdumarchal27427gut |title=Mémoires du maréchal Marmont, duc de Raguse (1/9) |others=Project Gutenberg}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Abrantès |first=Laure Junot |url=https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmadamej01abra |title=Memoirs of Madame Junot (Duchesse D'Abrantès) |date=1895 |publisher=Paris ; Boston : Napoleon Society |others=University of California Libraries}}</ref> In 1795 Junot participated in the suppression of the Royalist revolt of [[13 Vendémiaire]] under Bonaparte, then followed him to the [[Army of Italy (France)|Army of Italy]].<ref name=FN/> Junot served in the [[Montenotte campaign]] of April 1796, distinguishing himself at the [[Battle of Millesimo]], for which he received the rank of colonel and the honor of delivering to the [[French Directory|Directory]] the first standards captured in the [[Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars|Italian campaigns]].<ref name="Six"/> He again distinguished himself at [[Battle of Lonato]], where he killed six enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand fighting and suffered three sabre cuts to the head.<ref name="Six"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pommereul |first=François-René-Jean de (1745-1823) Auteur du texte |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k108061t/f106.image.r=junot?rk=13390624;0 |title=Campagne du général Buonaparte en Italie, pendant les années IVe et Ve de la République française / par un officier général |date=1797 |language=EN}}</ref>