Basile Baltus de Pouilly

Basile Guy Marie Victor Baltus de Pouilly (French pronunciation: [bazil ɡi maʁi viktɔʁ baltys də puji]; 2 January 1766[1] – 13 January 1845) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

Basile Baltus de Pouilly was born in Metz.

He was first a pupil of artillery in August 1780, second lieutenant in the regiment of La Fere in July 1781, captain in April 1791, and then a squadron leader in the 1st regiment of light artillery.

[citation needed] In 1815, during the Hundred Days, he commanded the IV Corps Reserve Artillery and was present at the meeting on the morning of 17 June, when Marshal Grouchy decided to proceed to Wavre rather than towards the cannon fire coming from the Battle of Waterloo.

Baltus finally left the army 9 December 1826, with the rank of lieutenant general.