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Étienne-Marie-Antoine Champion, comte de Nansouty (30 May 1768 – 12 February 1815) was a French cavalry commander during the French Revolutionary Wars who rose to the rank of General of Division in 1803 and subsequently held important military commands during the Napoleonic Wars.[1]

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  1. 291 relations: Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, Aderklaa, Aide-de-camp, Aisne (river), Alexandre de Beauharnais, Ancien régime, André Masséna, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Antoine Drouot, Antoine-Louis Decrest de Saint-Germain, Arc de Triomphe, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Armand Lebrun de La Houssaye, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Armée des Émigrés, Armistice, Army of Germany (1797), Army of Mainz, Army of the Danube, Army of the North, Army of the Rhine (1791–1795), Augsburg, Auguste de Marmont, Augustin Daniel Belliard, Austrian Empire, École militaire, Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud, Édouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso, Étienne Macdonald, Łyna (river), Bagrationovsk, Battle of Abensberg, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Brienne, Battle of Château-Thierry (1814), Battle of Craonne, Battle of Dresden, Battle of Eckmühl, Battle of Ettlingen, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Golymin, Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen, Battle of Hanau, Battle of Heilsberg, Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, Battle of La Rothière, Battle of Landshut (1809), ... Expand index (241 more) »

  2. Commanders in the French Imperial Guard
  3. Military personnel from Bordeaux

Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine

Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (4 February 174028 August 1793) was a French general. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Aderklaa

Aderklaa is a town in the district of Gänserndorf in Lower Austria in Austria.

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Aide-de-camp

An aide-de-camp (French expression meaning literally "helper in the military camp") is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state.

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Aisne (river)

The Aisne is a river in northeastern France.

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Alexandre de Beauharnais

Alexandre François Marie, Viscount of Beauharnais (28 May 1760 – 23 July 1794) was a French politician and general of the French Revolution.

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Ancien régime

The ancien régime was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic.

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André Masséna

André Masséna, Prince of Essling, Duke of Rivoli (born Andrea Massena; 6 May 1758 – 4 April 1817), was a French military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and André Masséna are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle (10 May 17756 July 1809) was a French cavalry general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle are cavalry commanders, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, Knights of the Order of Saint Louis and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Antoine Drouot

General Antoine Drouot, Comte Drouot (11 January 1774 – 24 March 1847) was a French officer who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Antoine Drouot are French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Antoine-Louis Decrest de Saint-Germain

Antoine-Louis Decrest de Saint-Germain, Count de Saint-Germain and of the Empire (born 8 December 1761 in Paris, died 4 October 1835 in Neuilly) was a French soldier of the French Revolutionary Wars, who later rose to the top military rank of General of Division, taking part to the Napoleonic Wars as a commander of cavalry. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Antoine-Louis Decrest de Saint-Germain are cavalry commanders, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Arc de Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.

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Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen

Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen (Erzherzog Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz von Österreich, Herzog von Teschen; 5 September 177130 April 1847) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of Emperor Leopold II and his wife, Maria Luisa of Spain. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen are grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.

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Armand Lebrun de La Houssaye

Armand Lebrun de la Houssaye (20 October 1768–19 June 1848) led a cavalry division during the First French Empire of Napoleon. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Armand Lebrun de La Houssaye are 1768 births, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt

Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence (9 December 177319 February 1827), was a French military officer, diplomat and close advisor to Napoleon I. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt are French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Armée des Émigrés

The Armée des émigrés (English: Army of the Émigrés) were counter-revolutionary armies raised outside France by and out of royalist émigrés, with the aim of overthrowing the First French Republic and restoring the monarchy.

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Armistice

An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.

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Army of Germany (1797)

The Army of Germany (Armée d'Allemagne) was one of the French Revolutionary armies, formed by a decree of the French Directory dated 29 September 1797 (8 vendémiaire Year VI) by merging the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and the Army of the Rhine and Moselle and commanded from the decree until 6 October by général Saint-Cyr under général Hoche.

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Army of Mainz

The Army of Mainz or Army of Mayence (Armée de Mayence) was a French Revolutionary Army set up on 9 December 1797 by splitting the Army of Germany into the Army of Mayence and the Army of the Rhine.

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Army of the Danube

The Army of the Danube (Armée du Danube) was a field army of the French Directory in the 1799 southwestern campaign in the Upper Danube valley.

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Army of the North

The Army of the North (Ejército del Norte), contemporaneously called Army of Peru (Ejército del Perú), was one of the armies deployed by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in the Spanish American wars of independence.

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Army of the Rhine (1791–1795)

The Army of the Rhine (Armée du Rhin; Rheinarmee) was formed in December 1791, for the purpose of bringing the French Revolution to the German states along the Rhine River.

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Augsburg

Augsburg (label) is a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich.

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Auguste de Marmont

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont (20 July 1774 – 22 March 1852) was a French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire and was awarded the title (duc de Raguse). Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Auguste de Marmont are names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Augustin Daniel Belliard

Augustin Daniel Belliard, comte Belliard et de l'Empire (25 May 1769 in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée – 28 January 1832 in Brussels) was a French general. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Augustin Daniel Belliard are counts of the First French Empire, French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.

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École militaire

The École militaire ("military school") is a complex of buildings in Paris, France, which house various military training facilities.

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Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud

Édouard Jean-Baptiste, comte Milhaud (10 July 1766 – 10 December 1833) was a French politician and Général de Division. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud are cavalry commanders, counts of the First French Empire, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Édouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso

Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Duke of Treviso (13 February 176828 July 1835), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon I, who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Édouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso are 1768 births, commanders in the French Imperial Guard, names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Étienne Macdonald

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald,Le Petit Robert des noms propres, French edition, 2018, entry « Macdonald (Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre) ». Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Étienne Macdonald are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Łyna (river)

The Łyna (Alle;; - Lava), is a river that begins in northern Poland's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and ends in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast.

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Bagrationovsk

Bagrationovsk (Багратио́новск; Preußisch Eylau,; Pruska Iława or Iławka; Ylava or Prūsų Ylava) is a town and the administrative center of Bagrationovsky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located close to the border with Poland, south of Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Battle of Abensberg

The Battle of Abensberg took place on 20 April 1809 between a Franco-German force under the command of Emperor Napoleon I of France and a reinforced Austrian corps led by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Archduke Louis of Austria.

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Battle of Aspern-Essling

In the Battle of Aspern-Essling (21–22 May 1809), Napoleon crossed the Danube near Vienna, but the French and their allies were attacked and forced back across the river by the Austrians under Archduke Charles.

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Battle of Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805/11 Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important military engagements of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Battle of Borodino

The Battle of Borodino took place near the village of Borodino on during Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

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Battle of Brienne

The Battle of Brienne (29 January 1814) saw an Imperial French army led by Emperor Napoleon attack Prussian and Russian forces commanded by Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

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Battle of Château-Thierry (1814)

The Battle of Château-Thierry (12 February 1814) saw the Imperial French army commanded by Emperor Napoleon attempt to destroy a Prussian corps led by Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg and an Imperial Russian corps under Fabian Wilhelm von Osten-Sacken.

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Battle of Craonne

The Battle of Craonne (7 March 1814) was a battle between an Imperial French army under Emperor Napoleon I opposing a combined army of Imperial Russians and Prussians led by Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

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Battle of Dresden

The Battle of Dresden (26–27 August 1813) was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Battle of Eckmühl

The Battle of Eckmühl fought on 22 April 1809, was the turning point of the 1809 Campaign, also known as the War of the Fifth Coalition.

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Battle of Ettlingen

The Battle of Ettlingen or Battle of Malsch (9 July 1796) was fought during the French Revolutionary Wars between the armies of the First French Republic and Habsburg Austria near the town of Malsch, southwest of Ettlingen.

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Battle of Eylau

The Battle of Eylau, or Battle of Preussisch-Eylau, was a bloody and strategically inconclusive battle on 7 and 8 February 1807 between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under the command of Levin August von Bennigsen near the town of Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia.

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Battle of Friedland

The Battle of Friedland (14 June 1807) was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars between the armies of the French Empire commanded by Napoleon I and the armies of the Russian Empire led by Count von Bennigsen.

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Battle of Golymin

The Battle of Golymin took place on 26 December 1806 during the War of the Fourth Coalition at Gołymin, Poland, between around 17,000 Russian soldiers with 28 guns under Prince Golitsyn and 38,000 French soldiers under Marshal Murat.

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Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen

In the Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen on 5 and 6 June 1807, troops of the Russian Empire led by General Levin August, Count von Bennigsen attacked the First French Empire corps of Marshal Michel Ney.

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Battle of Hanau

The Battle of Hanau was fought from 30 to 31 October 1813 between Karl Philipp von Wrede's Austro-Bavarian corps and Napoleon's retreating French during the War of the Sixth Coalition.

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Battle of Heilsberg

The Battle of Heilsberg took place on 10 June 1807 off the town of Heilsberg (now Lidzbark Warmiński), during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Battle of Jena–Auerstedt

The twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt (older spelling: Auerstädt) were fought on 14 October 1806 on the plateau west of the river Saale in today's Germany, between the forces of Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia.

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Battle of La Rothière

The Battle of La Rothière was fought on 1 February 1814 between the French Empire and allied army of Austria, Prussia, Russia, and German States previously allied with France.

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Battle of Landshut (1809)

The Battle of Landshut took place on 21 April 1809 between the French, Württembergers (VIII Corps) and Bavarians (VII Corps) under Napoleon which numbered about 77,000 strong, and 36,000 Austrians under the General Johann von Hiller.

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Battle of Laon

The Battle of Laon (9–10 March 1814) was the victory of Blücher's Prussian army over Napoleon's French army near Laon.

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Battle of Leipzig

The Battle of Leipzig (Bataille de Leipsick; Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig,; Slaget vid Leipzig), also known as the Battle of the Nations, was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813 at Leipzig, Saxony.

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Battle of Marengo

The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy.

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Battle of Montmirail

The Battle of Montmirail (11 February 1814) was fought between a French force led by Emperor Napoleon and two Allied corps commanded by Fabian Wilhelm von Osten-Sacken and Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg.

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Battle of Neresheim

The Battle of Neresheim (11 August 1796) was fought by the Republican French army under Jean Victor Marie Moreau against the army of the Habsburg monarchy of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen.

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Battle of Ostrovno

The Battle of Ostrovno (Combat d'Ostrowno) was a military engagement that took place on 25 July 1812, between French forces under the command of King of Naples Joachim Murat and Russian forces under General Ostermann-Tolstoy and ended with the Russian forces retreating from the battlefield.

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Battle of Ratisbon

The Battle of Ratisbon, also called the Battle of Regensburg, was fought on 23 April 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars, between the army of the French Empire, led by Napoleon I, and that of the Austrian Empire, led by Archduke Charles.

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Battle of Schöngrabern

The Battle of Schöngrabern, also known as the Battle of Hollabrunn, was an engagement in the Napoleonic Wars during the War of the Third Coalition, fought on 16 November 1805 near Hollabrunn in Lower Austria, four weeks after the Battle of Ulm and two weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz (Slavkov, Moravia - now Czech Republic).

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Battle of Stockach (1799)

The Battle of Stockach occurred on 25 March 1799, when French and Austrian armies fought for control of the geographically strategic Hegau region in present-day Baden-Württemberg.

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Battle of Vauchamps

The Battle of Vauchamps (14 February 1814) was the final major engagement of the Six Days Campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition.

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Battle of Vitebsk (1812)

The battle of Vitebsk, sometimes spelled Witepsk, was a military engagement that took place on 26 and 27 July 1812 during the French invasion of Russia.

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Battle of Wagram

The Battle of Wagram (5–6 July 1809) was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars that ended in a costly but decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon's French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria-Teschen.

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Battle of Wertingen

In the Battle of Wertingen (8 October 1805) Imperial French forces led by Marshals Joachim Murat and Jean Lannes attacked a small Austrian corps commanded by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Franz Xaver von Auffenberg.

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Battle of Wiesloch (1799)

The Battle of Wiesloch (Schlacht bei Wiesloch) occurred on 3 December 1799, during the War of the Second Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Battle of Wischau

The Battle of Wischau occurred on 28 November 1805 between the Russian and French armies.

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Battle of Zorndorf

The Battle of Zorndorf, during the Seven Years' War, was fought on 25 August 1758 between Russian troops commanded by Count William Fermor and a Prussian army commanded by King Frederick the Great.

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Battles of Stockach and Engen

The Battles of Stockach and Engen were fought on 3 May 1800 between the army of the First French Republic under Jean Victor Marie Moreau and the army of the Habsburg monarchy led by Paul Kray.

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Bearskin

A bearskin is a tall fur cap derived from mitre caps worn by grenadier units in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bernhard Erasmus von Deroy

Bernhard Erasmus von Deroy (11 December 1743 – 23 August 1812) from the Electorate of the Palatinate became a noted general officer in the army of Bavaria. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Bernhard Erasmus von Deroy are People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Berry-au-Bac

Berry-au-Bac is a commune in the department of Aisne in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Bourbon Restoration in France

The Second Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the fall of the First French Empire in 1815.

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Brienne-le-Château

Brienne-le-Château is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

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Brigadier general

Brigadier general or brigade general is a military rank used in many countries.

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Burgundy

Burgundy (Bourgogne; Burgundian: bourguignon) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France.

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Canister shot

Canister shot is a kind of anti-personnel artillery ammunition.

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Capitulation of Erfurt

In the Capitulation of Erfurt on 16 October 1806, a large body of troops from the Kingdom of Prussia under Lieutenant General the Prince of Orange surrendered to Marshal Joachim Murat of France, at the city of Erfurt (now in Germany).

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Carbine

A carbine is a long gun that has a barrel shortened from its original length.

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Cavalry

Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.

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Champaubert

Champaubert is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

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Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes

Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (29 December 1719 – 13 February 1787) was a French statesman and diplomat.

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Charles Juste de Beauvau, 2nd Prince of Craon

Charles Juste de Beauvau, 2nd Prince of Craon (10 September 1720 – 21 May 1793), 2nd Prince of Craon (1754), Marshal of France (1783) was a French scholar, nobleman and general.

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Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes

Charles, comte Lefebvre-Desnouettes or Lefèbvre-Desnoëttes (14 September 1773, in Paris – 22 April 1822) became a French officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and a general during the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes are commanders in the French Imperial Guard, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Charles X of France

Charles X (Charles Philippe; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Charles X of France are grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.

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Charles, Comte de Flahaut

Auguste Charles Joseph de Flahaut de La Billarderie, Comte de Flahaut (21 April 17851 September 1870) was a French general during the Napoleonic Wars, a senator, and later in his life, a French ambassador to the Court of St James's. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Charles, Comte de Flahaut are counts of the First French Empire, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière

Charles-Étienne César Gudin de La Sablonnière (13 February 1768 – 22 August 1812) was a French general who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière are 1768 births, French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Chasseur

Chasseur, a French term for "hunter", is the designation given to certain regiments of French and Belgian light infantry (chasseurs à pied) or light cavalry (chasseurs à cheval) to denote troops trained for rapid action.

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Chavignon

Chavignon is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Chevau-léger

The Chevau-légers (from French cheval—horse—and léger—light) was a generic French name for units of light and medium cavalry.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Claude Ignace François Michaud

Claude Ignace François Michaud (28 October 1751 – 19 October 1835) commanded French troops during the French Revolutionary Wars, rising to command the Army of the Rhine in 1794. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Claude Ignace François Michaud are counts of the First French Empire, French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand

Claude Juste Alexandre Louis Legrand (23 February 1762, Le Plessier-sur-Saint-Just, Oise – 8 January 1815, Paris) was a French general. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand are 1815 deaths, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Claude Lecourbe

Claude Jacques Lecourbe (22 February 1759 – 22 October 1815) was a French general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Claude Lecourbe are 1815 deaths, French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Claude-Étienne Guyot

Claude-Étienne Guyot, count of the Empire, (1768–1837) was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, noted for commanding cavalry. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Claude-Étienne Guyot are 1768 births, cavalry commanders, commanders in the French Imperial Guard, counts of the First French Empire, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Colonel General (France)

A Colonel General was an officer of the French army during the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Bourbon Restoration.

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Confederation of the Rhine

The Confederated States of the Rhine, simply known as the Confederation of the Rhine or Rhine Confederation, was a confederation of German client states established at the behest of Napoleon some months after he defeated Austria and Russia at the Battle of Austerlitz.

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County of Burgundy

The Free County of Burgundy (Franche Comté de Bourgogne; Freigrafschaft Burgund) was a medieval feudal state ruled by a count from 982 to 1678.

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County of Tyrol

The (Princely) County of Tyrol was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140.

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Coup of 18 Brumaire

The coup of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France.

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Cuirass

A cuirass (cuirasse, coriaceus) is a piece of armour that covers the torso, formed of one or more pieces of metal or other rigid material.

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Cuirassier

Cuirassiers were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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David G. Chandler

David Geoffrey Chandler (15 January 1934 – 10 October 2004) was a British historian whose study focused on the Napoleonic era.

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Death in vain

In the Sinosphere, a death in vain (枉死, 冤死, 屈死) is a death that is not a death of natural causes, such as a suicide, homicide, or an accident, which is an unjust death.

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Defection

In politics, a defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one state in exchange for allegiance to another, changing sides in a way which is considered illegitimate by the first state.

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Digby Smith

Digby George Smith (1 January 1935 – 9 January 2024), who also used the pseudonym Otto von Pivka, was a British military historian.

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Dijon

Dijon is a city that serves as the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Divisional general

Divisional general is a general officer rank who commands an army division.

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Dobre Miasto

Dobre Miasto (Guttstadt; literally Good City) is a town in Poland, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship with 9,857 inhabitants as of December 2021.

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Dragoon

Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot.

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Duchy of Warsaw

The Duchy of Warsaw (Księstwo Warszawskie; Duché de Varsovie; Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Duke

Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility.

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Eggmühl

Eggmühl (formerly known in English as Eggmuhl or Eckmühl) is a village of Germany, in Bavaria, on the Große Laaber, 20 km S.E. of Regensburg.

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Eggolsheim

Eggolsheim is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany.

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Elbe

The Elbe (Labe; Ilv or Elv; Upper and Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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Electoral Palatinate

The Electoral Palatinate (Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate (Pfalz), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate (Kurfürstentum Pfalz), was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Electorate of Bavaria

The Electorate of Bavaria (Kurfürstentum Bayern) was a quasi-independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1623 to 1806, when it was succeeded by the Kingdom of Bavaria.

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Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy

Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (23 October 176629 May 1847) was a French military leader who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy are counts of the First French Empire, French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Emperor of the French

Emperor of the French (French: Empereur des Français) was the title of the monarch and supreme ruler of the First and the Second French Empires.

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Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia.

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Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was a French nobleman, statesman, and military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Eugène de Beauharnais are French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Faubourg Saint-Germain

Faubourg Saint-Germain is a historic district of Paris, France.

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First French Empire

The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

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François Antoine Louis Bourcier

François Antoine Louis Bourcier (23 February 1760 – 8 May 1828) was a French cavalry officer and divisional general of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and François Antoine Louis Bourcier are French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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François Étienne de Kellermann

François Étienne de Kellermann, 2nd Duke of Valmy (4 August 1770 – 2 June 1835) was a French cavalry general noted for his daring and skillful exploits during the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and François Étienne de Kellermann are cavalry commanders, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Frédéric Henri Walther

Frédéric-Louis-Henri Walther (20 June 1761 – 24 November 1813), was a French general of division and a supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Frédéric Henri Walther are commanders in the French Imperial Guard, counts of the First French Empire, French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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French Consulate

The Consulate (Consulat) was the top-level government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799 until the start of the French Empire on 18 May 1804.

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French First Republic

In the history of France, the First Republic (Première République), sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, and officially the French Republic (République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution.

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French invasion of Egypt and Syria

The French invasion of Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) was an invasion and occupation of the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, by forces of the French First Republic led by Napoleon Bonaparte.

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French invasion of Russia

The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign (Campagne de Russie) and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars (Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802.

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Friedrich Heinrich von Gottesheim

Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Gottesheim (1749 in Geudertheim – 5 April 1808 in Prague) was a French soldier and Austrian commander in the time of the French Revolutionary Wars and the War of the Third Coalition.

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz

Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz (3 February 1721 – 8 November 1773) was a Prussian officer, lieutenant general, and among the greatest of the Prussian cavalry generals. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz are cavalry commanders.

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Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor

Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor (7 March 1770 – 28 July 1849) was a Marshal of France. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor are counts of the First French Empire, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (21 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (sovereign prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal).

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General officer

A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry.

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Grand Battery

Grand Battery (Grande Batterie, meaning big or great battery) was a French artillery tactic of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Grande Armée

paren) was the main military component of the French Imperial Army commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during the Napoleonic Wars. From 1804 to 1808, it won a series of military victories that allowed the French Empire to exercise unprecedented control over most of Europe. Widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest fighting forces ever assembled, it suffered enormous losses during the disastrous Peninsular War followed by the invasion of Russia in 1812, after which it never recovered its strategic superiority and ended in total defeat for Napoleonic France by the Peace of Paris in 1815.

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Grenz infantry

Grenz infantry or Grenzers or Granichary (from Grenzer "border guard" or "frontiersman"; Serbo-Croatian: graničari, krajišnici, Hungarian: granicsár, граничари, крајишници, Russian Cyrillic: граничары) were light infantry troops who came from the Military Frontier in the Habsburg monarchy (later the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary).

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Gunther E. Rothenberg

Gunther Erich Rothenberg (11 July 1923 – 26 April 2004) was an internationally known military historian, best known for his publications on the Habsburg military and Napoleonic Wars.

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Habsburg monarchy

The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.

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Hanover

Hanover (Hannover; Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Hanoverian Army

The Hanoverian Army (German: Hannoversche Armee) was the standing army of the Electorate of Hanover from the seventeenth century onwards.

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Hôtel particulier

Hôtel particulier is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a British townhouse.

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Heavy cavalry

Heavy cavalry was a class of cavalry intended to deliver a battlefield charge and also to act as a tactical reserve; they are also often termed shock cavalry.

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Heinrich XV, Prince Reuss of Greiz

Heinrich XV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (22 February 1751 – 30 August 1825) was the fourth of six sons born into the reigning family of the Principality of Reuss.

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Henri Marie Lenoury

Henri Marie Lenoury (6 November 1771 – 25 September 1839), sometimes incorrectly called Noury, was a French general born in Craconville, France. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Henri Marie Lenoury are French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, Knights of the Order of Saint Louis and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Henry IV of France

Henry IV (Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta

Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta (Oraziu Francescu Bastianu Sebastiani di A Porta; 11 November 1771 – 20 July 1851) was a French general, diplomat, and politician, who served as Naval Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of State under the July Monarchy. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta are counts of the First French Empire, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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House of Habsburg

The House of Habsburg (Haus Habsburg), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.

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Hussar

A hussar (huszár; husarz; Croatian - husar, Serbian - husar /) was a member of a class of light cavalry, originating in Central Europe (Hungary) during the 15th and 16th centuries.

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I Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée)

The I Cavalry Corps of the Grande Armée was a French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Imperial Guard (Napoleon I)

The Imperial Guard (Garde Impériale) was originally a group of elite soldiers of the French Army under the direct command of Napoleon I, but grew considerably over time.

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Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars

The Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801) were a series of conflicts fought principally in Northern Italy between the French Revolutionary Army and a Coalition of Austria, Russia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and a number of other Italian states.

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Jean Lannes

Jean Lannes, 1st Duke of Montebello, Prince of Siewierz (10 April 1769 – 31 May 1809), was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean Lannes are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean Rapp

General Count Jean Rapp (27 April 1771 – 8 November 1821) was a French Army officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars and twice governor of the Free City of Danzig. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean Rapp are French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean Tulard

Jean Tulard (born 22 December 1933, Paris) is a French academic and historian.

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Jean Victor Marie Moreau

Jean Victor Marie Moreau (14 February 1763 – 2 September 1813) was a French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power, but later became his chief military and political rival and was banished to the United States. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean Victor Marie Moreau are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Jean-Baptiste Bessières, 1st duc d'Istrie (6 August 1768 – 1 May 1813) was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-Baptiste Bessières are 1768 births, cavalry commanders, commanders in the French Imperial Guard, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Count Jourdan (29 April 1762 – 23 November 1833), was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Jean-Charles Pichegru

Jean-Charles Pichegru (16 February 1761 – 5 April 1804) was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-Charles Pichegru are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean-de-Dieu Soult

Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia (29 March 1769 – 26 November 1851) was a French general and statesman. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-de-Dieu Soult are commanders in the French Imperial Guard, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul

Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul (13 May 1754 – 14 February 1807) was a French cavalry general of the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul are cavalry commanders, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne

Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne, Count d'Espagne and of the Empire (born 16 February 1769 in Auch, died 21 May 1809 on the island of Lobau) was a French cavalry commander of the French Revolutionary Wars, who rose to the top military rank of General of Division and took part in the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne are cavalry commanders, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean-Marie Defrance

Jean-Marie Defrance (1771–1835) was a French General of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-Marie Defrance are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean-Nicolas Curély

Jean-Nicolas Curély (c. 1774–1827), French cavalry leader, was the son of a poor peasant of Lorraine. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-Nicolas Curély are names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean-Pierre Doumerc

Jean-Pierre Doumerc (7 October 1767 – 29 March 1847), joined a French cavalry regiment at the beginning of the French Revolution and rose in rank to command a cuirassier regiment by the start of the First French Empire. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-Pierre Doumerc are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, Knights of the Order of Saint Louis and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova, duc de Padoue

Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova, 1st duc de Padoue (born 8 March 1778 in Corte; died 22 March 1853 in Paris), Duke of Padova, was a French diplomat and soldier of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova, duc de Padoue are cavalry commanders, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Joachim Murat

Joachim Murat (also,; Gioacchino Murat; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Joachim Murat are 1815 deaths, cavalry commanders, names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein

Johann I Joseph (Johann Baptist Josef Adam Johann Nepomuk Aloys Franz de Paula; 26 June 1760 – 20 April 1836) was Prince of Liechtenstein between 1805 and 1806 and again from 1814 until 1836.

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Joseph Piston

Joseph Piston (1754–1831), baron of the Empire, was a French general who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Joseph Piston are French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Karl Philipp von Wrede

Karl (or Carl) Philipp Josef, Prince von Wrede (29 April 176712 December 1838) was a Bavarian field marshal.

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Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg

Karl Philipp, Fürst zu Schwarzenberg (or Charles Philip, Prince of Schwarzenberg; 18/19 April 1771 – 15 October 1820) was an Austrian Generalissimo and former Field Marshal.

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Karl von Vincent

Karl Freiherr von Vincent (11 August 1757 – 7 October 1834) fought in the army of Habsburg Austria during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Karl Wilhelm von Stutterheim

Karl Daniel Gottfried Wilhelm von Stutterheim, born 6 August 1770 – died 13 December 1811, served in the Prussian and Saxon armies during the French Revolutionary Wars, leaving the latter service in 1798.

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Köfering

Köfering is a municipality in the district of Regensburg in Bavaria in Germany.

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Königsberg

Königsberg (Królewiec, Karaliaučius, Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.

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Kingdom of Bavaria

The Kingdom of Bavaria (Königreich Bayern;; spelled Baiern until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.

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Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)

The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia; Royaume d'Italie) was a kingdom in Northern Italy (formerly the Italian Republic) that was a client state of Napoleon's French Empire.

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Kingdom of Portugal

The Kingdom of Portugal was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Kingdom of Saxony

The Kingdom of Saxony (Königreich Sachsen) was a German monarchy that existed in Central Europe between 1806 to 1918.

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Kingdom of Württemberg

The Kingdom of Württemberg (Königreich Württemberg) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg.

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Kingdom of Westphalia

The Kingdom of Westphalia was a client state of France in present-day Germany that existed from 1807 to 1813.

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Kinzig (Main)

The Kinzig is a river, 87 kilometres long, in southern Hesse, Germany.

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Landau

Landau (Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (kreisfrei) town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Laon

Laon is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 1st Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (13 April 1764 – 17 March 1830) was a French military commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr are counts of the First French Empire, French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Legion of Honour

The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.

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Levin August von Bennigsen

Levin August Gottlieb Theophil, Graf von Bennigsen (Levin Avgust Gotlib Teofil' fon Bennigsen, as well in Leontiy Leont'yevič Bennigsen; 10 February 1745 – 3 December 1826) was a German general in the service of the Russian Empire. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Levin August von Bennigsen are grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.

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Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.

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Light cavalry

Light cavalry comprised lightly armed and armored cavalry troops mounted on fast horses, as opposed to heavy cavalry, where the mounted riders (and sometimes the warhorses) were heavily armored.

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Line (formation)

The line formation is a standard tactical formation which was used in early modern warfare.

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List of French monarchs

France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.

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Lobau

The Lobau is a Vienna floodplain on the northern side of the Danube in Donaustadt and partly in Großenzersdorf, Lower Austria.

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Looting

Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.

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Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers

Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers (13 August 1764 – 6 January 1813) was a French Army general who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Louis Desaix

Louis Charles Antoine Desaix (17 August 176814 June 1800) was a French general and military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Louis Desaix are 1768 births and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Louis Klein

Dominique Louis Antoine Klein (19 January 1761 – 2 November 1845) served in the French military during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars as a general of cavalry. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Louis Klein are grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Knights of the Order of Saint Louis and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Louis XV

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774.

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Louis XVI

Louis XVI (Louis Auguste;; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Louis XVI are People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Louis XVIII

Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired, was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815.

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Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville

Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville (29 August 1773 – 17 June 1815) was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville are 1815 deaths, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Louis-Nicolas Davout

Louis-Nicolas d'Avout (10 May 1770 – 1 June 1823), better known as Davout, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, 1st Duke of Auerstaedt, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Louis-Nicolas Davout are commanders in the French Imperial Guard, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Louis-Pierre Montbrun

Louis Pierre, comte Montbrun (1770, Florensac, Hérault – 1812), French cavalry general, served with distinction in the cavalry arm throughout the wars of the Revolution and the Consulate, and in 1800 was appointed to command his regiment, having served therein from trooper upwards. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Louis-Pierre Montbrun are cavalry commanders, French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Mainz

Mainz (see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city.

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Maison militaire du roi de France

The maison militaire du roi de France, in English the military household of the king of France, was the military part of the French royal household or Maison du Roi under the Ancien Régime.

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Marc Antoine de Beaumont

Marc-Antoine de Beaumont (23 September 1763 – 4 February 1830) a French nobleman, became a page to the king and joined the army of the Old Regime. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Marc Antoine de Beaumont are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga

Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga (October 7, 1766, Falga, Haute-Garonne, France - January 23, 1849, Leschelles, near Guise, Aisne) was a French général de division of Italian descent. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga are counts of the First French Empire, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Marshal of France

Marshal of France (Maréchal de France, plural Maréchaux de France) is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements.

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Marshal of the Empire

Marshal of the Empire (Maréchal d'Empire) was a civil dignity during the First French Empire.

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Michel Ney

Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Michel Ney are 1815 deaths, cavalry commanders, commanders in the French Imperial Guard, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Military Household of the Emperor

The Military Household of the Emperor (French: Maison Militaire de l'Empereur) was the immediate entourage of the Emperor of the French during the First French Empire.

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Ministry of defence

A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divided into ministries or departments.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mounted Carabiniers (France)

The Carabiniers-à-Cheval (French for Horse Carabiniers or Mounted Carabiniers) were mounted troops in the service of France.

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Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard

The Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard constituted a light cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard during the French Consulate and First French Empire respectively.

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Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard

The Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard was a heavy cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard during the French Consulate and First French Empire respectively.

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Musket

A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour.

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Musketeers of the Guard

The Musketeers of the military household of the King of France (Mousquetaires de la maison militaire du roi de France), also known as the Musketeers of the Guard (Mousquetaires de la garde) or King's Musketeers (Mousquetaires du roi), were an elite fighting company of the military branch of the Maison du Roi, the royal household of the French monarchy.

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Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe

The following is a list of the 660 names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Napoleon are 18th-century French military personnel, 19th-century French military personnel, French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Neman

The Neman, Niemen or Nemunas is a river in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then forms the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western exclave, which specifically follows its southern channel.

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Nicolas Luckner

Nicolas, Count Luckner (Johann Nikolaus Graf Luckner; 12 January 1722, Cham – 4 January 1794, Paris) was a German officer in French service who rose to become a Marshal of France. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Nicolas Luckner are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Nikolai Gagarin

Prince (Knyaz) Nikolai Sergeevich Gagarin (князь Николай Сергеевич Гагарин; July 12, 1784—July 25, 1842) was a Russian leader.

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Ober-Flörsheim

Ober-Flörsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Order of Saint Louis

The Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis (Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis) is a dynastic order of chivalry founded 5 April 1693 by King Louis XIV, named after Saint Louis (King Louis IX of France).

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Père Lachaise Cemetery

Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise; formerly, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at.

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Peace of Pressburg (1805)

The Peace of Pressburg was signed in Pressburg (today Bratislava) on 26 December 1805 between French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, as a consequence of the French victory over the Russians and Austrians at the Battle of Austerlitz (2 December).

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Peninsular War

The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur

Philippe Henri, Marquis de Ségur (20 January 1724 – 3 October 1801) was a grandson of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, nobleman, Marshal of France, and Secretary of State for War under Louis XV and later Louis XVI.

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Picket (military)

A picket (archaically, picquet) is a soldier, or small unit of soldiers, placed on a defensive line forward of a friendly position to provide timely warning and screening against an enemy advance.

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Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais

Pierre David Édouard de Colbert-Chabanais (Paris, 18 October 1774 – 1853) was a general of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his unbreakable loyalty to Napoleon. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais are commanders in the French Imperial Guard, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Pierre François Joseph Durutte

Pierre François Joseph Durutte (13 July 1767 – 18 April 1827) joined the French army at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Pierre François Joseph Durutte are French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Platoon

A platoon is a military unit typically composed of two to four squads, sections, or patrols.

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Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg.

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Pravdinsk

Pravdinsk (Пра́вдинск, prior to 1946 known by its German name, Friedland, Frydląd, Romuva), is a town and the administrative center of Pravdinsky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Pyotr Bagration

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812) was a Russian general and prince of Georgian origin, prominent during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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Raymond-Gaspard de Bonardi de Saint-Sulpice

Raymond-Gaspard de Bonardi comte de Saint-Sulpice (23 October 1761 - 20 June 1835) was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his actions as a heavy cavalry commander and who became a Peer of France towards the end of his life. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Raymond-Gaspard de Bonardi de Saint-Sulpice are cavalry commanders, commanders in the French Imperial Guard, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans

Marshal Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans, 1st Comte Exelmans (13 November 1775 – 22 June 1852) was a distinguished French soldier of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as a political figure of the following period. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans are commanders in the French Imperial Guard, counts of the First French Empire, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe and People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Redoubt

A redoubt (historically redout) is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, although some are constructed of stone or brick.

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Regensburg

Regensburg (historically known in English as Ratisbon) is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers, Danube's northernmost point.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Rhineland

The Rhineland (Rheinland; Rhénanie; Rijnland; Rhingland; Latinised name: Rhenania) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.

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Round shot

A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun.

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Russian Imperial Guard

The Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard (Лейб-гвардия Leyb-gvardiya, from German Leib "body"; cf. Life Guards / Bodyguard) were military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Russia.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Second Battle of Wissembourg

The Second Battle of Wissembourg from 26 December 1793 to 29 December 1793 saw an army of the First French Republic under General Lazare Hoche fight a series of clashes against an army of Austrians, Prussians, Bavarians, and Hessians led by General Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser.

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Seine-et-Oise

Seine-et-Oise is a former department of France, which encompassed the western, northern and southern parts of the metropolitan area of Paris.

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Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.

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Skirmisher

Skirmishers are light infantry or light cavalry soldiers deployed as a vanguard, flank guard or rearguard to screen a tactical position or a larger body of friendly troops from enemy advances.

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Slavkov u Brna

Slavkov u Brna (Austerlitz) is a town in Vyškov District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Staff (military)

A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the execution of their plans and orders, especially in case of multiple simultaneous and rapidly changing complex operations.

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Stockach

Stockach is a town in the district of Konstanz, in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg (Straßburg) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.

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Sub-lieutenant

Sub-lieutenant is usually a junior officer rank, used in armies, navies and air forces.

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Treaties of Tilsit

The Treaties of Tilsit, also collectively known as the Peace of Tilsit, were two peace treaties signed by French Emperor Napoleon in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland, at the end of the War of the Fourth Coalition.

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Treaty of Campo Formio

The Treaty of Campo Formio (today Campoformido) was signed on 17 October 1797 (26 Vendémiaire VI) by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Philipp von Cobenzl as representatives of the French Republic and the Austrian monarchy, respectively.

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Treaty of Lunéville

The Treaty of Lunéville (or Peace of Lunéville) was signed in the Treaty House of Lunéville on 9 February 1801.

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Treaty of Schönbrunn

The Treaty of Schönbrunn (Traité de Schönbrunn; Friede von Schönbrunn), sometimes known as the Peace of Schönbrunn or the Treaty of Vienna, was signed between France and Austria at Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna on 14 October 1809.

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Trot

The trot is a two-beat diagonal horse gait where the diagonal pairs of legs move forward at the same time with a moment of suspension between each beat.

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Troyes

Troyes is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France.

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Vanguard

The vanguard (sometimes abbreviated to van and also called the advance guard) is the leading part of an advancing military formation.

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Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg

Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Faÿ, Marquis de La Tour-Maubourg (22 May 1768 – 11 November 1850) was a French cavalry commander under France's Ancien Régime before rising to prominence during the First French Empire. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg are 1768 births, cavalry commanders, French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars and names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Vilnius

Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.

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Vinko Knežević

Vinko Knežević or Vincent Knesevich of Saint Helen (Vinko Knežević od Svete Jelene, Vince Knezsevics de Szent-Ilona); 30 November 1755 – 11 March 1832) was a Croatian nobleman and general in the Habsburg monarchy imperial army service. He was a member of the Knežević noble family. During his long military career he fought in many battles during the Austro-Turkish War and the French Revolutionary Wars. Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty and Vinko Knežević are People of the War of the First Coalition.

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Vistula

The Vistula (Wisła,, Weichsel) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length.

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War of the Austrian Succession

The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

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War of the Fifth Coalition

The War of the Fifth Coalition was a European conflict in 1809 that was part of the Napoleonic Wars and the Coalition Wars.

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War of the First Coalition

The War of the First Coalition (Guerre de la Première Coalition) was a set of wars that several European powers fought between 1792 and 1797, initially against the constitutional Kingdom of France and then the French Republic that succeeded it.

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War of the Fourth Coalition

The War of the Fourth Coalition (Guerre de la Quatrième Coalition) was a war spanning 1806–1807 that saw a multinational coalition fight against Napoleon's French Empire, subsequently being defeated.

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War of the Polish Succession

The War of the Polish Succession (Wojna o sukcesję polską; 1733–35) was a major European conflict sparked by a civil war in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth over the succession to Augustus II the Strong, which the other European powers widened in pursuit of their own national interests.

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War of the Second Coalition

The War of the Second Coalition (Guerre de la Deuxième Coalition) (1798/9 – 1801/2, depending on periodisation) was the second war targeting revolutionary France by many European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria, and Russia and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Naples and various German monarchies.

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War of the Sixth Coalition

In the War of the Sixth Coalition (Guerre de la Sixième Coalition) (March 1813 – May 1814), sometimes known in Germany as the Wars of Liberation (Befreiungskriege), a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Sardinia, and a number of German States defeated France and drove Napoleon into exile on Elba.

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War of the Third Coalition

The War of the Third Coalition (Guerre de la Troisième Coalition) was a European conflict lasting from 1805 to 1806 and was the first conflict of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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White Elster

The White Elster is a long river in central Europe.

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14th arrondissement of Paris

The 14th arrondissement of Paris, officially named arrondissement de l'Observatoire (meaning "arrondissement of the Observatory", after the Paris Observatory), is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.

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1st Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (Polish)

The 1st Polish Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (/) was a foreign Polish light cavalry lancers regiment which served as part of Napoleon's Imperial Guard during the Napoleonic Wars.

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2nd Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (Dutch)

The 2e régiment de chevau-légers lanciers de la Garde Impériale (English: 2nd Regiment of Light Cavalry Lancers of the Imperial Guard) was a light cavalry regiment in Napoleon I's Imperial Guard.

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See also

Commanders in the French Imperial Guard

Military personnel from Bordeaux

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étienne_Marie_Antoine_Champion_de_Nansouty

Also known as Etienne de Nansouty.

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