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Joachim Murat
- Battle of HeilsbergOn the 24th of May 1807, Prussian General Friedrich Adolf Count von Kalckreuth surrendered Danzig to French Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre.
- Caroline BonaparteCarolina Maria Annunziata Bonaparte entered the world on the 25th of March 1782 in Ajaccio, Corsica. She was the seventh child and third daughter of Carlo…
- Battle of DresdenOn the 16th of August 1813, Napoleon dispatched Marshal Saint-Cyr's corps to fortify Dresden. This city in modern-day Germany became a critical pivot point…
- Battle of AusterlitzIn December 1804, an Anglo-Swedish agreement set the stage for a new alliance against France. British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger spent 1804 and…
- Battle of Abukir (1799)In July 1798, a French expeditionary force of over 40,000 men landed in Alexandria. Napoleon proposed the annexation of Egypt as part of a wider plan to…
- Battle of Jena–AuerstedtNapoleon I of France thrust a force of 180,000 men through the Franconian Forest in October 1806. This massive army moved against the Fourth Coalition while…
- Joachim MuratJoachim Murat was born on the 25th of March 1767 in La Bastide-Fortunière, a small village in southwestern France. His father Pierre Murat-Jordy worked as an…
- Battle of BorodinoOn the 24th of June 1812, Napoleon crossed the Niemen river with his Grande Armée to begin the invasion of Russia. The French force started with 286,000…
- Battle of LeipzigNapoleon invaded Russia on the 24th of June 1812 with around 685,000 troops. He entered Moscow in late 1812 after the bloody Battle of Borodino.
- Battle of EylauNapoleon's armies smashed the army of the Austrian Empire in the Ulm Campaign and the combined Austrian and Russian armies at the Battle of Austerlitz on the…
- Dos de Mayo UprisingNapoleon's army occupied Madrid on the 23rd of March 1808. King Charles IV had been forced to abdicate by his own people during the Tumult of Aranjuez.