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Joachim Murat
- Battle of HeilsbergThe Battle of Heilsberg was fought near a town on the Łyna River on the 10th of June 1807, and it cost the French army an estimated 12,000 men.
- Caroline BonaparteCaroline Bonaparte was born on the 25th of March 1782, the seventh child of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, the younger sister of the man who would…
- Battle of DresdenThe Battle of Dresden began on the 26th of August, 1813, and within two days it had produced one of Napoleon's most tactically impressive victories.
- Battle of AusterlitzThe Battle of Austerlitz, fought on the 2nd of December 1805, began with a French army that was outnumbered, tired, and deliberately pretending to be weaker…
- Battle of Abukir (1799)On the 25th of July 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte stood near the Egyptian peninsula of Abukir and looked out at a problem that should have been unsolvable.
- Battle of Jena–AuerstedtOn the 14th of October 1806, two battles were fought simultaneously on the plateau west of the river Saale, in what is today Thuringia, Germany.
- Joachim MuratJoachim Murat, born on the 25th of March 1767 in a small town in southwestern France, died facing a firing squad on the 13th of October 1815 in Pizzo Calabro.
- Battle of BorodinoOn the 7th of September 1812, near a small village called Borodino on the outskirts of Moscow, roughly a quarter of a million soldiers collided in a single…
- Battle of LeipzigThe Battle of Leipzig lasted four days in October 1813, and by its end roughly 133,000 soldiers were dead, wounded, or missing.
- Battle of EylauThe Battle of Eylau ended with a French marshal riding across a field of bloodstained snow and frozen corpses, muttering four words: "Quel massacre!
- Dos de Mayo UprisingThe Dos de Mayo Uprising began not with generals or kings, but with a crowd gathered outside the Royal Palace in Madrid on the 2nd of May 1808.