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Events on Tuesday 19 September 1797 1
1768 – 1797Lazare Hoche (1768-1797)Died 19 September 1797, aged 29Hoche was a French Revolutionary general who rose rapidly through the ranks, suppressing royalist uprisings in the Vendee and commanding armies along the Rhine. He died suddenly, possibly of tuberculosis or poisoning, at the height of his career. His death removed a potential rival to Napoleon Bonaparte's rising influence.