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Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Neuchâtel et Valangin, prince de Wagram (French: [lwi alɛksɑ̃dʁ bɛʁtje]; 20 November 1753 – 1 June 1815) was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister of War of France and was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1804.
The French response, under Louis-Alexandre Berthier, was disorganised but order was imposed with the arrival of Napoleon on 17 April. Napoleon led an advance to Landshut , hoping to cut off the Austrian line of retreat and sweep into their rear.
The French army was under the supreme command of Emperor Napoleon, with Marshal Louis Alexandre Berthier as his chief of staff. General of division Nicolas-Marie Songis des Courbons commanded the artillery. The overall strength of the French army during the battle is estimated to have been about 73,000 men of all arms and 139 artillery pieces.
Chief of Staff: Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier. The units available to fight at Champaubert were the 1st Old Guard Division, the Guard artillery, the 1st and 3rd Guard Cavalry Divisions, the 1st and 2nd Young Guard Divisions, both divisions of the VI Corps, both divisions of the I Cavalry Corps, and Cyrille-Simon Picquet's cavalry brigade. [19]
List of Marshals of the First French Empire; Name Image Born Died Date of promotion Louis-Alexandre Berthier † : November 20, 1753 [10]: June 1, 1815 [10]: May 19, 1804 [10]: Joachim Murat
On the same day he became commander-in-chief of the Army of Italy, 27 March 1796, [20] Napoleon summoned the three most senior generals of division to his headquarters, through his chief of staff Louis Alexandre Berthier, to give them orders regarding the upcoming campaign.
Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier acted as Napoleon's chief of staff from 1796 until 1814, being replaced by Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult during the Hundred Days. The role of Chief of Staff in the Grande Armée became almost synonymous with Berthier, who occupied this position in almost all the major campaigns of Napoleon.
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Prince de Neuchâtel, 1806; Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Prince de Pontecorvo, 1806–1810; Lucien Murat, Prince de Pontecorvo, 1812–1815; Two other titles fall into this category but are not as clear cut as the others: