Vandamme, DOMINIQUE JOSEPH, general, was born 5th November 1771 at Cassel, in the dept. of Nord, and during the revolutionary war was distinguished as commander of the Chasseurs de Mont-Cassel. In 1799 he was a general of division, fought at Austerlitz, reduced Silesia in 1806 and 1807, and repeatedly commanded an army corps, but was defeated and taken prisoner at Kulm in
1813. He held a command during the Hundred Days, and after the second restoration was exiled, but returned from America in 1824 to die at Cassel, 15th May 1830. See the Life by Du Casse (1870).