He was Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, born 250 years ago today. Larrey, who fought in most of Napoleon’s campaigns, believed in rapid treatment of the wounded, and invented the first ambulance.

The young Dominique-Jean had to be raised by the parish priest Abbot ... Later, when Bonaparte proclaimed himself emperor, and his guard became the Imperial Guard, Larrey was appointed a baron of the ...

This cry has been heard on battlefields for centuries, beginning with Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey's establishment of battlefield medical treatment during the Napoleonic wars. Larrey, Napoleon ...

Dominique Jean Larrey lived quite a life. He was born in 1766, and at the age of 13, had to walk from his home in a French village to study in the city of Toulouse. That journey was 70 miles, and yes, ...