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2. List of Marshals of the First French Empire - Wikipedia

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   Most had defected to the royalists before the Battle of Waterloo and Napoleon's subsequent defeat, with only four others (most notably Marshals Emmanuel de Grouchy and Michel Ney) serving under Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. [1] [7] Auguste de Marmont, born in 1774, was the youngest officer to earn the distinction of Marshal. [8] Francois ...

3. Marshal of the Empire - Wikipedia

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   The most active Marshals in the Napoleonic war, Napoleon Campaign: Marshal Michel Ney Duke of Elchingen, and Prince of la Moscowa (1769–1815). [1] Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout Duke of Auerstaedt, Prince of Eckmühl (1770–1823). [1] Marshal Jean Lannes Duke of Montebello (1769–1809). [1] Marshal Joachim Murat Prince d'Empire, Grand Duke of ...

4. Louis-Nicolas Davout - Wikipedia

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   Louis-Nicolas d'Avout (French: [lwi nikɔla davu]; 10 May 1770 – 1 June 1823), better known as Davout, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, 1st Duke of Auerstaedt, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

5. Grande Armée - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Jean Lannes - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. List of French generals of the Peninsular War - Wikipedia

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   Napoleon had intended the campaign on the Peninsula to be a walkover, but what he would come to call the Spanish Ulcer, [1] ended up with him having had to send in thirteen of his maréchals (ten of whom were of the first promotion – of fourteen – and included Soult, one of only six men to have been appointed Marshal General of France in the history of France), as well as two "honorary ...

8. Movie review: Joaquin Phoenix meets his Waterloo in 'Napoleon'

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   Nov. 24—The literal French definition of "tour de force," an admiring noun that gets thrown around a lot in English, translates as "feat of strength." Therefore, I don't get it. I don't get why ...

9. Jean-de-Dieu Soult - Wikipedia

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   In his book, Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles, Bernard Cornwell summarizes the opinions of several historians that Soult's presence in the Army of the North was one of several factors contributing to Napoleon's defeat, because of the animosity between him and Marshal Michel Ney, the other senior commander, and ...