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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Marshals of France




Marshal of France was the highest military rank in France before the revolution. After the revolution it was abolished as an elitest rank, but in 1804 Napoleon reinstated it as part of his attempts to rebuild a system of honours in France. Napoleon appointed twenty six marshals between 1804 and 1815.
NameLivedNotes and titlesDate appointed
Pierre Francois CharlesAugereau1757-1816Duc de Castiglione19.05.1804
Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte1763-1844Later King Charles XIV of Sweden19.05.1804
Louis-Alexandre Berthier1753-1815Prince de Neuchatel, suicide or murdered?19.05.1804
Jean Baptiste Bessieres1763-1813Duc D’Istrie, Killed in battle19.05.1804
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune1763-1815Murdered by a loyalist mob19.05.1804
Louis Nicolas Davout1770-1823Prince de Eckmuhl, Duc d’Auerstadt19.05.1804
Laurent Gouvion St.Cyr1764-1830Later Marquis de St.Cyr27.08.1812
Emmanuel Marquis de Grouchy1766-1847Marquis03.06.1815
Jean Baptiste Jourdan1762-183319.05.1804
Francois Etienne ChristopheKellerman1735-1820Duc de Valmy19.05.1804
Jean Lannes1769-1809Killed in battle19.05.1804
Francois Joseph Lefebvre1755-1820Duc de Danzig19.05.1804
Jacques Etienne JosephMacdonald1765-1840Duc de Tarente12.07.1809
Auguste Frederic Viesse deMarmont1774-1852Duc de Raguse12.07.1809
Andre Massena1758-1817Prince d’Essling Duc de Rivoli19.05.1804
Bon Adrien Jannot de Moncey1754-1842Duc de Conegliano19.05.1804
Adolphe Edouard Mortier1768-1835Duc de Trevise19.05.1804
Joachim Murat1767-1815King of Naples, Grand Duke of Berg, death by firing squad19.05.1804
Michel Ney1769-1815Prince de la Moskowa, Duc D’Elchingen, death by firing squad19.05.1804
Nicholas Charles Oudinot1767-1847Duc de Reggio12.07.1809
Catherine Dominique Perignon1754-1818Later Marquis de Perignon19.05.1804
Josef Anton Prince Poniatowski1763-1813Drowned in battle16.10.1813
Jean Mathieu Serurier1742-181919.05.1804
Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult1769-1851Duc de Dalmatie19.05.1804
Louis Gabriel Suchet1770-1826Duc d’Albufera01.07.1811
Claude Victor1764-1841Duc de Bellune13.07.1807

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