Jean-Gaspard Dichat de Toisinge (13 August 1740 – 21 April 1796) became a general officer in the service of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont during the War of the First Coalition.

After another promotion to general officer, he fought against Napoleon Bonaparte's French army at the battles of San Michele and Mondovì and was killed in the latter action.

Jean-Gaspard Dichat de Toisinge was born on 13 August 1740 at Chambéry in the Duchy of Savoy in what is now in the department of Savoie in France.

On 26 April 1749, his father was appointed senator when Savoy was returned to the Kingdom of Sardinia after being occupied by Spanish troops for seven years.

[3] On 20 April 1759, Jean-Gaspard Dichat joined the Fusilier Regiment in the Royal Sardinian Army as a cadet.

Since these regions were on the west side of the mountains, they were difficult to defend in case of a war with a major power like France.

Both battalions were approximately 400 strong and both divisions were subordinate to General Charles-François Thaon, Count of Saint-André.

[6] In the First Battle of Saorgio on 8–12 June 1793, French attacks on Mont-Authion and the Col de Raus were repulsed with serious losses.

[15] On 19 April 1796, Colli, who was then in overall Sardinian command, placed 8,000 soldiers and 15 guns under Dichat's tactical control and ordered him to defend the position of San Michele (or La Bicocca).

High water defeated Augereau, while Sérurier's initial attack on the San Michele bridge was stopped by intense artillery fire.

[16] One of Sérurier's brigades found an unguarded footbridge, crossed over, and began moving up the west bank of the Corsaglia.

[17] Bonaparte spent 19 and 20 April resting his French troops, restoring discipline, bringing up reinforcements, and switching his army's supply line from the Colle di Cadibona to the nearer Tanaro valley.

After finding the bridge at San Michele broken at midnight, French scouts found that the Sardinians had decamped.

In the Battle of Mondovì on 21 April, Sérurier's division rapidly pursued and drove the Sardinian rearguard back to Vicoforte, where Colli was trying to organize a defensive position.