Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (baptised 27 December [O.S. 16 December] 1761 – 26 May [O.S. 14 May] 1818) was a Russian Field Marshal who figured...
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Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (pronounced [miʃɛl nɛ]; 10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander...
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Battle of Smolensk (1812) (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
Emperor Napoleon I against about 30,000 Russian troops under General Barclay de Tolly. Napoleon occupied Smolensk by driving out Prince Pyotr Bagration's...
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Battle of Borodino (redirect from Bataille de la Moskowa)
Kutuzov, whom the Emperor Alexander I of Russia had appointed to replace Barclay de Tolly on 29 August [O.S. 17 August] 1812 after the Battle of Smolensk. After...
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Pyotr Bagration (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Russia in 1812, Bagration commanded one of two large Russian armies (Barclay de Tolly commanded the other) fighting a series of rear-guard actions. The Russians...
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The commander of the Russian First Army, General Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, was himself aiming to fight and thus massed the bulk of his forces...
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French invasion of Russia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Belarus, in a bid to dismantle the disparate Russian forces led by Barclay de Tolly and Pyotr Bagration totaling approximately 180,000–220,000 soldiers...
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Battle of Inkovo (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
As Barclay de Tolly's and Pyotr Bagration's army were separated, Napoleon tried in vain to defeat them before they could unite. But Barclay de Tolly under...
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in recognition of which he was made a marshal. The Russians, under Barclay de Tolly, were burning everything as they retreated back towards Moscow, and...
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Battle of Pułtusk (1806) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
the first line. On the extreme right Major General Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly occupied part of the Mosin wood with three battalions, a cavalry regiment...
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armies were joined and put under the command of Field Marshal Count Barclay de Tolly who would also be responsible for the taking of the city, but the driving...
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General of Infantry Mikhail Barclay de Tolly as a field commander numbered 104,250 men and 7,000 Cossacks with 558 guns. Tolly interrupted his service for...
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Battle of Saltanovka (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
ordered on 7 July to join, via Mogilev, the First Western Army of Barclay de Tolly. Bagration was threatened with encirclement by French emperor Napoleon's...
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Hundred Days (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
commanded by Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, marching towards France A Reserve Russian Army to support Barclay de Tolly if required. A Reserve Prussian...
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Battle of Valutino (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
Marshal Ney, about 35,000 strong, and a strong rear-guard of General Barclay de Tolly's Russian army of about 25,000, commanded by the general himself. The...
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Battle of Leipzig (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
towards Leipzig. The Allies had Blücher and Bernadotte to the north, Barclay de Tolly and Bennigsen, and Prince von Hesse-Homburg to the south, as well as...
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Eugène Rose de Beauharnais ([øʒɛn də boaʁnɛ]; 3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was a French nobleman, statesman, and military commander who served...
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Mikhail Kutuzov (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
graf (1811). When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (then Minister of War), with his army being outnumbered 2:1, chose...
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Corps of Mikhail Barclay de Tolly's 1st Army of the West. He fought at Smolensk 17 August, then with Württemberg was defeated by Michel Ney at Lubino on...
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attack on his front, under the command of Generals Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly and von Colloredo-Mansfeld. In an attempt to repulse simultaneous attacks...
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Battle of Dresden (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
the center consisted of the best Russian and Prussian troops under Barclay de Tolly and included 2 Russian grenadier divisions, 4 Russian Guard cavalry...
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Battle of Bautzen (1813) (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
back by Napoleon but escaped destruction. Some sources claim that Marshal Michel Ney failed to block their retreat. The Prussians were led by General Gebhard...
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André Masséna (redirect from Andre, Duke de Rivoli, Prince D'essling Massena)
and was also a member of the court-martial that refused to try Marshal Michel Ney. Masséna died in Paris in 1817 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery...
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Battle of Eylau (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
in Eylau that was led by Barclay de Tolly. The rearguard action continued when French forces advanced to assault Barclay's forces in the town of Eylau...
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campagne de 1814 après les documents des archives impériales et royales de la guerre à Vienne (in French) (4 vols. ed.). Paris: Librairie militaire de L. Weil...
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aid at all.[citation needed] The minister of war, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, had managed the reform and improvement of the Imperial Russian Army...
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Claude-Victor Perrin (redirect from Claude, Duc de Bellune Victor-Perrin)
the Chamber of Peers, he voted in favor of the death penalty for Marshal Michel Ney, a vote he bitterly regretted, and Victor made the day of Ney's execution...
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Paris. He asked Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Hans Karl von Diebitsch and Karl Wilhelm von Toll for their advice. Barclay wished to follow Napoleon but...
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between Arcis and Troyes. The Guards and Reserve under Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly were directed to cross from the north to the south bank of the Aube...
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Louis-Alexandre Berthier (redirect from Louis-Alexandre, Prince de Wagram Berthier)
napoleon.org. "PORTRAIT DE MARIE-ELISABETH, PRINCESS DE WAGRAM, NÉE DUCHESS EN BAVIÈRE (1785-1849)". Sothebys. Huberty, Michel; Giraud, Alain; Magdelaine...
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