eldest child of Jean-Baptiste Gouvion, a tanner, and his wife Anne-Marie Mercier. His mother abandoned him at an early age. Gouvion went to Rome when...

officer corps, notably Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Joachim Murat (with whom he clashed strongly during the 1812 campaign), Louis-Alexandre Berthier and...

Louis Jean-Baptiste Gouvion (général de division) Jean-Baptiste Gouvion (général de brigade) Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (Maréchal d'Empire) Louis-Marthe...

Generals Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (a veteran of the American War of Independence and a future Marshal), Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Jean-Baptiste Kléber and...

Empire in 1809 Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Duke of Albufera (1770–1826), Marshal of the Empire in 1811 Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr...

Jean-Baptiste, comte Dumonceau, comte de Bergendal (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist dymɔ̃so]; 7 November 1760 – 29 December 1821) was a general from...

Louis-Mathieu, comte Molé (French pronunciation: [lwi matjø kɔ̃t mɔle]; 24 January 1781 – 23 November 1855) was a French statesman and a close friend...

them – Louis-Alexandre Berthier and André Masséna – receiving more than one million Francs each. Two Marshals – Joachim Murat and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte–...

the Alps. Kellermann's Chief of staff: GB Louis-Alexandre Berthier Army of Italy Chief of staff: GD Paul Louis Gaultier de Kervéguen GD André Massena commanded...

Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély – French politician Laure Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély – his wife and Lady of Court Jean-Baptiste Regnault...

gave the excuse that another general with the same family name, Louis-Jean-Baptiste Gouvion was in disgrace and that suspicion would fall on himself. Hentz...

Austrians' left rear. General of Division Jean-Baptiste Jourdan commanding. Chief of Staff: General of Division Jean Augustin Ernouf Engineering: General of...

infantry, 1,031 cavalry) Generals of Brigade: Jean-Baptiste Jacopin, Charles Louis Dieudonne Grandjean, Jean Baptiste Lorcet, Jacques Quétard, Boyer 14th Light...

gratitude to them. Aside from Saint-Cyr, Custine appointed Louis Desaix and Jean-Baptiste Kléber to his staff. His enormous vanity, his belief that his...

exercised independent command. Portrait of Prince John of Braganza by Jean-Baptiste Debret (1817). Napoleon Bonaparte by Andrea Appiani (1805). By 1800...

engineer for the next four years. During this period he went with Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan on a survey of the Tyrol. In 1805, Marshal André Masséna asked...

Paris Louis Alexandre Berthier Jean-Baptiste Bessières Guillaume Marie Anne Brune Louis-Nicolas Davout Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr Jean-Baptiste Jourdan...

would be cut off from the corps of Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, which was retreating toward France north of the Mainz, and Jean Victor Marie Moreau, who was retreating...

1812 for the French invasion of Russia and placed under Marshal Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr. It consisted entirely of Bavarian soldiers at that time. During...

Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt Jean Baptiste Kléber Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor Adam Albert von Neipperg Antoine...

Catholicism after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes issued by King Louis XIV in 1685. Jean-Chrysostôme Calès entered military service at the beginning of...

24 June. Moreau expanded his bridgehead, sending Desaix north, Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr east and Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino south. The French won...

Julien-Désiré Schmaltz, his wife Reine Schmaltz, and his secretary, Joseph Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Griffon du Bellay. Méduse's complement totaled 400, including...

Ancients annul the election of Jean Baptiste Treilhard to the Directory and replace him with a leftist member, Louis-Jérôme Gohier. June 18–19: Two royalist...

milliner, see Claude Saint-Cyr, For the Marshal of France see Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr Claude Carra Saint-Cyr (French pronunciation: [klod kaʁa sɛ̃...

1774 July 23, 1852 July 12, 1809 Louis-Gabriel Suchet March 2, 1770 January 3, 1826 July 8, 1811 Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr April 13, 1764 March 17...

under MG Pierre Ferino, a Center led by MG Louis Desaix, and a Left Wing commanded by MG Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr. Field Marshal Archduke Charles commanded...

campaign. Awarded following the Siege of Tarragona. Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr Comte de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr May 1808 Cut, at I, left of the district of the...

mission to convince Napoleon's former Marshal, and Swedish Crown Prince Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, later King Charles XIV John of Sweden, to move his Army...

consisted of the 25,000-man-strong French "Center", commanded by Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr. After being flanked by General Moreau, who approached Ulm from...