Marshal of France (French: Maréchal de France, plural Maréchaux de France) is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded...
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Marshal General of France, originally "Marshal General of the King's camps and armies" (French: maréchal général des camps et armées du roi), was a title...
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of Bolivia Marshal (Brazil) Marshal of the Realm (Denmark) Marshal of Finland France Marshal of France (includes Marshal of the Empire, both equivalent...
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Marshal of Poland (Polish: Marszałek Polski) is the highest rank in the Polish Army. It has been granted to only six officers. At present, Marshal is equivalent...
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William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146 or 1147 – 14 May 1219), also called William the Marshal (Norman French: Williame li Mareschal, French: Guillaume...
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Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the most senior military rank, senior to the general officer ranks. Usually, it is the highest...
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alongside the peers of France, in trials of members of the peers. The military titles, such as Marshal of France, Grand Master of Artillery, and Colonel...
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Marshal of the Empire (French: Maréchal d'Empire) was a civil dignity during the First French Empire. It was established by Sénatus-consulte/Napoléon...
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Highest military ranks (section Grand marshal)
dignity of Constable of France was unavailable or, after 1626, suppressed. Marshal of France (French: Maréchal de France, plural Maréchaux de France) is a...
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Albéric Clément (category Marshals of France)
the first Marshal of France (Marescallus Franciae), a position created for him by Philip Augustus in 1185. He also inherited the seigneurie of Mez (later...
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Philippe Pétain (redirect from Marshal Henri Petain)
Philippe Pétain (French: [filip petɛ̃]) and Marshal Pétain (French: Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who commanded the French Army in World War...
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insignia in the French Army are worn on the sleeve or on shoulder marks of uniforms, and range up to the highest rank of Marshal of France, a state honour...
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"Dean of Marshals" (Doyen des maréchaux), who was in fact the most senior "Marshal of France" (Maréchal de France); as the word doyen is used in French mainly...
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Nicolas Oudinot (redirect from Marshal Nicholas Oudinot)
d'Oudinot, duc de Reggio (French pronunciation: [nikɔlɑ udino]; 25 April 1767 in Bar-le-Duc – 13 September 1847 in Paris), was a Marshal of the Empire. He is...
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Les Invalides (redirect from Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides)
(1856–1942), Marshal of France Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans (1775–1852), Marshal of France Émile Fayolle (1852–1928), Marshal of France Ernest François...
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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...
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Ferdinand Foch (redirect from Marshal Ferdinand Foch)
Foch (/fɒʃ/ FOSH, French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ fɔʃ]; 2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française...
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Noailles, duc de Mouchy (1715–1794), Marshal of France, younger brother of Louis, 4th duc de Noailles and father of Louis-Marie, vicomte de Noailles and...
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François Achille Bazaine (redirect from Marshal Bazaine)
then Napoleon III, he held every rank in the army from fusilier to Marshal of France, the latter in 1863. François Achille Bazaine was born at Versailles...
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ʁɛn], was a French general and one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. The most illustrious member of the La Tour d'Auvergne...
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François-Marie, comte de Broglie (category French military personnel of the Thirty Years' War)
naturalized in France after 1643. Broglie founded one of the enduring families of the French aristocracy. His son Victor-Maurice became a marshal of France, and...
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La Force (redirect from Marshal de la Force)
La Force was a peerage of France Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de la Force (1558-1652), marshal of France and peer of France Armand-Nompar de Caumont...
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Nicolas Catinat (redirect from Marshal de Catinat)
Catinat (French pronunciation: [nikɔla katina], 1 September 1637 – 22 February 1712) was a French military commander and Marshal of France under Louis...
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Nicolas Luckner (category Marshals of France)
4 January 1794, Paris) was a German officer in French service who rose to become a Marshal of France. Luckner grew up in Kötzting, in eastern Bavaria...
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Gilles Bosquet, French rower Marta Bosquet, Spanish politician Pierre Bosquet (1810–1861), Marshal of France Rosalie Bosquet, birth name of Madame Max Adolphe...
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Pierre Bosquet (category Marshals of France)
French Army general. He served during the French conquest of Algeria and in the Crimean War of 1853-1856; returning from Crimea he was made a Marshal...
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Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie (category Marshals of France)
and a marshal of France like his father, became the first duc de Broglie. Longueville, Thomas (1907). Marshal Turenne. Robarts - University of Toronto...
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Patrice de MacMahon (redirect from Marshal MacMahon)
(French pronunciation: [patʁis də makma.ɔ̃]; 13 June 1808 – 17 October 1893), was a French general and politician, with the distinction of Marshal of France...
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Maurice de Saxe (redirect from Marshal Saxe)
of the Holy Roman Empire, then the Imperial Army, before finally entering French service. De Saxe became a Marshal and even Marshal General of France...
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Aimable Pélissier (redirect from Marshal Pélissier)
22 May 1864), was a Marshal of France. He served in Algeria where he became widely known for his cruel conduct and extermination of entire tribes. He also...
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