{{Short description|French general (1736–1803)}} {{Infobox military person | name = Alexis Chalbos | birth_date = 6 March 1736 | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1803|3|17|1736|3|6}} | birth_place = Cubières, Gévaudan, Kingdom of France | death_place = Mainz, Germany | allegiance = {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} Kingdom of France<br>{{flagicon|France}} Republican France | rank = General of Division | branch = Army | service_years = {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} 1751–1792<br>{{flagicon|France}} 1792–1803 | battles = {{tree list}} * War in the Vendée ** Battle of Fontenay-le-Comte ** Second Battle of Châtillon ** Battle of Cholet ** Battle of Entrames {{tree list/end}} | commands = Army of the West | awards = Order of Saint Louis }} '''Alexis François Chalbos''' (6 March 1736 – 17 March 1803) was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars.
In 1751, he joined the régiment de Normandie as a private. In June 1789 he was promoted to captain, then to general in 1793. He served especially in the War in the Vendée, for a short time succeeding Jean Léchelle as commander in chief of the Army of the West. He ended his career in command of the forces in the stronghold at Mainz.
==Sources== *{{cite book|last=Clerget |first=Charles |title=Tableaux des Armées Françaises pendant les Guerres de la Révolution |year=1905 |location=Paris |publisher=Librarie Militaire R. Chapelot et Cie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwAbAAAAYAAJ |access-date=31 July 2015 }} *{{cite book|last=Michelet |first=Jules |title=Histoire de la Révolution française |volume=1 |isbn=2-221-08884-0 }}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box | title=Provisional Commander-in-chief of the Army of the West | before=Jean Léchelle | after=Jean Antoine Rossignol | years=28 October–15 November 1793 }} {{s-end}}
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