Louis Charles Antoine Desaix (French: [lwi ʃaʁl ɑ̃twan dəzɛ]) (17 August 1768 – 14 June 1800) was a French general and military leader during the French...
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chef d'escadron and participated in the Egyptian campaign under General Louis Desaix. He published an account of this campaign in his memoirs. Savary fought...
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the Free City of Danzig. He served as Aide-de-camp to French Generals Louis Desaix and later Napoleon Bonaparte, whose life he saved on multiple occasions...
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Louis Desaix in the Egyptian expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte. On his return, he did not take part in the Battle of Marengo, where his friend Desaix was...
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Mort (1795), Kunsthalle Hamburg Les Trois Grâces (1799), Musée du Louvre Desaix recevant la mort à la bataille de Marengo (1801) Napoléon au camp de Boulogne...
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Church of St. Clotilde Eustache Lesueur, Jacques Sarrazin and General Desaix the new Louvre Statue of Coulomb, Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Dagobert...
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French ship Tyrannicide (1793) (redirect from French ship Desaix (1793))
Cruise of Bruix. Tyrannicide was renamed Desaix in August 1800 in honour of General Louis Desaix. Under Captain Jean-Anne Christy de la Pallière, she captured...
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net by sending Louis Desaix with Divisional General Jean Boudet's division (6,000 men) south to Novi Ligure and Divisional General Jean François Cornu...
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command the 74-gun ship Tyrannicide, which was renamed Desaix in 1801. On 3 July 1801, Desaix captured HMS Speedy, captained by Lord Cochrane; brought...
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of Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, Jean-Louis-Ébénézer Reynier, Charles-François-Joseph Dugua, Honoré Vial and Louis André Bon. In addition, Desaix sent...
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1800, coincidentally the same day on which Kléber's friend and comrade, Desaix, fell at Marengo. The assassin's right arm was burned off, and he was impaled...
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battle such as one of Custine for the musée de Versailles, the tomb of Louis Desaix at Grand Saint-Bernard or that of Leclerc at the Panthéon de Paris. He...
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Numbers: 500 men on foot and on horseback Commander: Général Louis Charles Antoine Desaix Numbers: 5600 men Made up of the following regiments: 21e demi-brigade...
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defending the line of the Murg River. Leading a wing of Moreau's army, Louis Desaix attacked the Austrians and drove them back to the Alb River in the War...
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Fiesinger's engraving of Pierre-Louis Roederer after Jean Urbain Guérin Fiesinger's engraving of Louis Charles Antoine Desaix after Jean Urbain Guérin "Deutsche...
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assembled. General Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed commander, with General Louis Desaix serving as provisional commander in Paris during Bonaparte's absence...
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for the National Assembly. In addition to Fort Saint Louis, there are three other forts: Fort Desaix Fort Tartenson Fort Gerbault Other sites of interest...
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Ernest Meissonier (redirect from Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier)
Painter, and M. Louis Fould; to that of 1864 The Emperor at Solferino, and 1814. He subsequently exhibited A Gamblers' Quarrel (1865) and Desaix and the Army...
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Baron de Richemont (category Louis XVII impostors)
army under a false name and entrusted to General Jean-Baptiste Kléber, then to General Louis Desaix. After these two generals died, he was sent to America...
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public squares are Place Jean-Baptiste Laurent and Place du pré-Madame in which stand two large fountains in homage to Louis Desaix. The Renaissance Maison...
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Austrians soon came to attack Huningue, at the same time besieging Kehl, where Desaix and Lecourbe were leading the French defence. Abbattucci held out for a...
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during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt. On 21 March 1799 General Louis-Charles-Antoine Desaix wrote a letter to Napoleon informing him of the existence of...
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and 88e Ligne) of General Desaix's division in Egypt, taking part in the Battle of the Pyramids (21 July 1798), and in Desaix's brilliant campaign in Upper...
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a potential defeat for France was ultimately secured by the generals Louis Desaix and François Christophe de Kellermann. This offered a further opportunity...
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Bonaparte Louis-Alexandre Berthier Pierre Dupont de l'Étang Armand de Marescot Auguste de Marmont Jean Lannes Claude Victor-Perrin Louis Desaix Joachim...
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Fort Saint Louis built to protect the city against enemy attacks. The fort was soon destroyed, and rebuilt in 1669, when Louis XIV appointed Jean-Charles...
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Consulate. Napoleon then commissioned a bronze heroic statue of General Louis Desaix which was produced by Claude Dejoux and inaugurated in 1810. The nude...
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Bonaparte at Marengo, Piedmont on 14 June 1800, whereat the French General Louis Desaix was killed. The reverse indicates the extent liberated lands, known as...
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Alessandria with the troops that marched from Turin. Also on 10 June, GD Louis Desaix arrived at Stradella and Bonaparte assigned him a corps containing the...
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Solignac served as chief of staff in André Massena's division. When Louis Desaix visited the Army of Italy in July 1797, he described Solignac as "very...
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