The French Imperial Army (French: Armée Impériale) was the land force branch of the French imperial military during the Napoleonic era. The beginnings...
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French Imperial Army (1804-1814 and 1815) The Imperial Japanese Army The Imperial Chinese Army The Manchukuo Imperial Army The Imperial Iranian Army The...
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from 18 May 1804 to 3 May 1814 and again briefly from 20 March 1815 to 7 July 1815, when Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena. Although France had already...
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Grande Armée (redirect from Imperial French Army)
Grande Armée (French for 'The Great Army'; French pronunciation: [ɡʀɑ̃d aʀme]) was the main military component of the French Imperial Army commanded by...
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The French Imperial Eagle (French: Aigle de drapeau, lit. 'flag eagle') refers to the figure of an eagle on a staff carried into battle as a standard...
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The Imperial Guard (Garde Impériale) was originally a group of elite soldiers of the French Army under the direct command of Napoleon I, but grew considerably...
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The Sailors of the Imperial Guard (French: Marins de la Garde Imperiale) were a naval unit within Napoleon's Imperial Guard. The unit's soldiers not only...
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The French Imperial Guard. Vol. 3 Cavalry 1804-15. Histoire & Collections. p. 6. ISBN 2-913903-98-3. Jouineau, Andre (2005). The French Imperial Guard...
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House of Bonaparte (category Articles containing French-language text)
The House of Bonaparte is a former imperial and royal European dynasty of Italian origin. It was founded in 1804 by Napoleon I, the son of Corsican nobleman...
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Terror. Following the proclamation of the French Empire in 1804 the Revolutionary Army became the Imperial Army. As the Ancien Régime gave way to a constitutional...
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The Old Guard (French: Vieille Garde) were the veteran elements of the Emperor Napoleon's Imperial Guard. As such it was the most prestigious formation...
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first use of the title 'Imperial Navy' was in 1804, following the Coronation of Napoleon, a name derived from the old French Navy under The Republic....
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1813–1815 1806–1807, 1813–1815 1804–1807, 1812–1815 1813–1815 1815) 1809 1806–1807, 1813–1814 1807–1812 1800–1807, 1809–1815 1802, 1808–1815) 1806–1815 1808–1815...
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Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor on 18 May 1804 by the Senate and was crowned Emperor of the French on 2 December 1804 at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris...
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Company of the Imperial Guard (French: Compagnie des Vétérans de la Garde Impériale) was a veterans and invalides unit of the French Imperial Guard serving...
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Austrian Empire (redirect from Austrian Empire (1804 - 1867))
from 1804 to 1815. The Austrian army was one of the most formidable forces the French had to face. After Prussia signed a peace treaty with France on 5...
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The French Imperial Naval Corps (French: Corps des Marines Impériaux) was the branch of the French Imperial Navy responsible for administering the infantry...
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Napoleon (redirect from Napoleon I the Great of the French bibliography)
to 1815. He was the leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804, then of the French Empire as Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814...
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Austria. The name "Imperial-Royal Army" was used from 1745, as "Imperial" referred until 1804 to the Holy Roman Empire and from 1804-1867 to the Austrian...
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1804), the former horse artillery company of the Garde Consulaire became the horse artillery regiment of the Imperial Guard, retaining its inter-army...
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of the Imperial Guard") was a gendarmerie unit formed in 1801 by Napoleon as part of the Consular Guard which became the Imperial Guard in 1804. In time...
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Guard during the French Consulate and First French Empire respectively. They were the senior Old Guard cavalry regiment of the Imperial Guard and from 1806...
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of France and contributed forces to the French Invasion of Russia in 1812. 1806–1807, 1813–1815 1804–1807, 1812–1815 Russia became an ally of France following...
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First French Empire was the regime established by Napoleon I in France. This empire lasted from 1804 to 1814, from the Consulate of the French First Republic...
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Dignitaries of the French Empire ranked, regardless of noble title, immediately behind the Princes of France. Ennoblement started in 1804 with the creation...
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Republican and Imperial governments of 1792–1814 had all been illegitimate, and the monarchy itself had never ceased. On 1 March 1815, however, Napoleon...
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Napoleonic Wars (redirect from Anglo-French War (1803–14))
Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array...
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King's German Legion (category Regiments of the British Army)
Duke of Cambridge 1st Light Dragoons 1804–1813: George, Baron Bock 1813–1815: John, Count Walmoden Gimborn 1815–1816: William de Dornberg 2nd Light Dragoons...
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during the French Consulate and First French Empire respectively. They were the second senior "Old Guard" cavalry regiment of the Imperial Guard, after...
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The 1st Polish Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (French: 1er Régiment de Chevau-Légers Lancier de la Garde impériale (Polonais) / Polish:...
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