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Three new marshals were created in the aftermath of the Battle of Wagram. Jacques MacDonald, the only Marshal of the Empire to be promoted on a battlefield, and was Napoleon's choice for "France" Nicolas Charles Oudinot, Napoleon's choice for the "Army" Auguste de Marmont, was the choice of "friendship", probably to Napoleon
Marshal of the Empire was a civil dignity in the First French Empire between 1804 and 1815. The successor of the dignity, the Marshal of France, is a five-star rank with a NATO code of OF-10, equivalent to an Admiral of France in the French Navy. The distinction was used sporadically and was vacant during parts of its history. [1]
The title Marshal General of the King's camps and armies (French: Maréchal général des camps et armées du roi), more commonly referred to as the Marshal General of France, was created superior to the Marshal of France to signify that the recipient had authority over all the French armies in the days when a Marshal of France governed only ...
Despite his strained relations with the head of state, Masséna received the baton of Marshal of the Empire on 19 May 1804, the day after the proclamation of the imperial regime. [23] From his accession to the marshalate, Masséna ceased to appear as a political opponent.
Under the French Empire he received the military titles of Marshal of the Empire and Admiral of France. He was the first Prince Murat, [1] Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808, [2] and King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon [3] (Italian: Gioacchino Napoleone) from 1808 to 1815. [4] [5]
Lannes' birthplace in Lectoure. Lannes was born in the small town of Lectoure, [2] [4] in the province of Gascony in Southern France. He was the son of a small landowner and merchant, Jeannet Lannes (1733–1812), son of Jean Lannes (d. 1746), a farmer, and his wife, Jeanne Pomiès (d. 1770), and paternal grandson of Pierre Lane and wife Bernarde Escossio (both died in 1721), and wife Cécile ...
He was made a Marshal of the Empire on 5 April 1815 (against the recommendation of Marshal Davout, then Minister for War), and received the command of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th divisions. [4] Grouchy directed the operations against the Duke of Angoulême's Royalist army in Southern France. [4]
Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, [1] [2] 1st Duke of Dalmatia (French: [ʒɑ̃dədjø sult]; 29 March 1769 – 26 November 1851) was a French general and statesman. He was a Marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, and served three times as President of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) of France.