Epic History Napoleon's Marshals: Saint-Cyr, Oudinot, Victor, Murat. Posted: December 5, 2024 | Last updated: December 5, 2024 In 1804 Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the ...

Epic History Napoleon's Marshals Suchet, Ney, Soult. Posted: December 10, 2024 | Last updated: December 10, 2024 In 1804 Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the senior ...

In 1804 Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the senior officers of the Grande Armée. He created a further 8 before his abdication in 1814. A few were aristocrats ...

They agreed never to fight an army if Napoleon was in command. If one of his marshals was in command, to go at him full force. And this worked. In the fall of 1813, the Allies caught Napoleon at ...

On this special episode of Battle Lines, Roland Oliphant and guests tackle the late David Knowles’ favourite conversational gambit: Who is your favourite of Napoleon’s Marshals? As they ponder ...

Napoleon would have to break Wellington’s center at once. The French cavalry charged on the order of Marshal Michel Ney, known as "the bravest of the brave." Convinced that the British line was ...

After 1808, Napoleon left the Peninsular conflict in the hands of his brother Joseph, and of the marshals and generals commanding the various French armies. No one man was given supreme command of ...