Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia (French: [ʒɑ̃dədjø sult]; 29 March 1769 – 26 November 1851) was a French general and statesman...
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and measures 274 cm × 190 cm (108 in × 75 in). Looted by Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult in 1813 and taken to France, it was bought by the Louvre in 1852....
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was named after the French general of the Napoleonic Wars Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult. She served in both World Wars and was decommissioned in 1946. Designed...
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the usual military virtue, or careful and exact troop leaders like Jean-de-Dieu Soult and Étienne Macdonald, were kept under Napoleon's own hand for the...
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The First cabinet of Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult was announced on 16 May 1832 by King Louis Philippe I. It replaced the Cabinet of Casimir Périer. It was...
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The Third cabinet of Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult was announced on October 29, 1840 by King Louis Philippe I. It replaced the Second cabinet of Adolphe Thiers...
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Battle of Ocaña (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
1809 between French forces under Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult against the Spanish army under General Juan Carlos de Aréizaga, which suffered its greatest single...
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The Second cabinet of Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult was announced on 12 May 1839 by King Louis Philippe I. It replaced the Transitional French cabinet of...
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Republic. He served as a prime minister in 1836 and 1840, dedicated the Arc de Triomphe, and arranged the return to France of the remains of Napoleon from...
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units and commanders. The corps was formed in 1805, with Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult being appointed as its commander. The IV Corps formed part of the...
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Siege of Olivença (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
Olivença or Olivenza occurred on 19-22 January 1811 when French General Jean-de-Dieu Soult successfully undertook the capture of the run-down Spanish fortress...
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'battle' as an offensive) launched on 25 July 1813 by Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult from the Pyrénées region on Emperor Napoleon's order, in the hope...
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defeat at the Battle of Talavera in 1809 and replaced by Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult. He was reinstated as Joseph's chief of staff in September 1811 but...
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troops under the command of the Marshals Claude Victor and Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult for one of the most important sieges of the war. Defending the city...
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François Guizot (section The second Soult government)
that a stable government was formed, in which Marshal Soult was first minister, Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie took the foreign office, Adolphe Thiers the home...
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Peninsula. Pursued by the armies of Britain, Spain and Portugal, Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult, no longer getting sufficient support from a depleted France, led...
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It was renamed in 1851, after Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult, who was born there in 1769. Marshal-General Soult, under the Emperor Napoleon, was later named...
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under Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult signed an armistice with Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Thouvenot continued to resist until Soult directly ordered...
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Battle of Jena–Auerstedt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
engaging in several holding actions, and was later joined by Murat and Soult in "The Pursuit of the Three Marshals." Blücher then moved west to cross...
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string of battles against French forces under the command of Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult, from the Iberian Peninsula across the Pyrenees and into south-west...
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Battle of the Gebora (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
Portugal—mired in front of Lisbon's defensive Lines of Torres Vedras—Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult led part of the French Armée du Midi (Army of the South) from Andalusia...
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Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʃaʁl ʒɑ̃ batist silvɛstʁ də vilnœv]; 31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806)...
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forces, defeating the Spanish armies before returning to France. Jean-de-Dieu Soult drove the British out of Spain in the Battle of Corunna in January...
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fought on 10 April 1800 between a 2,000-men French force under General Jean-de-Dieu Soult and a largely superior Austrian corps under the command of Prince...
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Battle of Corunna (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
16 January 1809, when a French corps under Marshal of the Empire Jean de Dieu Soult attacked a British army under Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore. The...
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initial military manoeuvres began in September 1806. In a letter to Marshal Soult detailing the plan for the campaign, Napoleon described the essential features...
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Vauban Claude de Villars Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme Maurice de Saxe Nicolas Catinat James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick Jean-de-Dieu Soult Nicolas Oudinot...
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President of the National Convention (4 June 1793 – 27 July 1794) with Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès as President of the National Convention (7 October 1794...
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(25–26 September 1799) saw a French division under General of Division Jean-de-Dieu Soult face a force of Austrian, Imperial Russian, and Swiss rebel soldiers...
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Antoine Virgile Schneider (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
Minister of War under the July Monarchy in the second government of Jean de Dieu Soult from 12 May 1839 to 1 March 1840. Antoine Virgile Schneider was born...
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