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Grouchy was born in Paris on 23 October 1766 into a family of the noblesse d'épée, the son of François-Jacques de Grouchy, 1st Marquis de Grouchy (born 1715) and Gilberte Fréteau de Pény (died 1793). [3] He was raised at the Château de Villette (known as "the little Versailles"), his family's estate in Condécourt, northwest of Paris. [3]
The II Cavalry Corps included the 2nd Dragoon Division under General Emmanuel de Grouchy, the 4th Dragoon Division led by General Louis Michel Antoine Sahuc, the 2nd Cuirassier Division commanded by General Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul, and the light cavalry division of General Jacques Louis François Delaistre de Tilly. The corps was dissolved ...
Commanded by General Emmanuel de Grouchy, two divisions of the corps fought at Borodino, Tarutino, and Vyazma. A third division fought at the First and Second battles of Polotsk and the Berezina. During the War of the Sixth Coalition in 1813, General Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova led the corps at Großbeeren, Dennewitz, Leipzig, and Hanau.
Grouchy believed that he was engaging the rearguard of a still-retreating Prussian force. However, only one Corps remained; the other three Prussian Corps (I, II and the still fresh IV) had regrouped after their defeat at Ligny and were marching toward Waterloo. The next morning the Battle of Wavre ended in a hollow French victory.
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At 1:30 pm Napoleon ordered Emmanuel de Grouchy to commit his cavalry in an effort to get the attack moving. Grouchy sent Louis Ernest Joseph Sparre's dragoon brigade forward. Sparre's troopers drove off the Pavlograd Hussars [38] and then swept into Parkinson's Horse Artillery Battery Nr. 9, cutting down the gunners. Both Grouchy and Sparre ...
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