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Military units and formations disestablished in 1815

  • Grande ArméeNapoleon stood at the Camp of Boulogne on the 16th of August 1804. He watched over an army of over 100,000 men gathered there for a planned invasion of the…
  • Old Guard (France)In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte established the Old Guard as a formation of veteran troops within the French Army's Imperial Guard.
  • Army of the North (France)On the 14th of December 1791, the government of the Kingdom of France appointed Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, as its commander.