Joseph François Noos, Baron of the Empire (11 December 1766 in Bruges – 25 August 1826 in Calais) was an officer in the army of the French Republican and fought thought the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.[1][a]

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  1. ^ Noos was governor of the fortress and town of Cambrai in 1815. The town was stormed by the British during their advance on Paris after the Battle of Waterloo. In a contemporary letter about the Cambrai Baron Noos is misnamed Baron Roos, and this misspelling is perpetuated in some British histories about the storming of Cambrai town and the negotiations for the surrender or the citadel.

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Bibliography

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  • Pouvesle, Frederic (December 2013), "Noos Joseph", Empire Histofig - Le site de jeu d'histoire, retrieved March 27, 2014

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  • Chappet, Alain; Martin, Roger; Pigeard, Alain (2005), Le Guide Napoléon: 4 000 lieux de mémoire pour revivre l'épopée, Editions Tallandier, p. 254, ISBN 9782847342468
  • Graux, Pierre (31 December 2010), "Colonel Noos", grauxenealogie.free.fr (in French), Histoire et Généalogie] {{citation}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Source Philippe Evrard