Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the senior officers of the Grande Armée. He created a further 8 ...

In 1804 Napoleon ... the lives of all 26 Marshals, and rank them according to our own judgement of their achievements as Marshals. Republicans unveil bill relocating NASA headquarters to Florida ...

In 1804 Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the senior officers of the Grande Armée. He created a further 8 before his abdication in 1814. A few were aristocrats ...

They have nearly all been penned by some of the First Napoleon's Marshals, and relate to his campaigns. One of them, however, is written by Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord to Gen. Marmont ...

N.C., who lately wrote a carefully prepared work on "Historic Doubts as to the Execution of Marshal Ney," has informed his publisher. Thomas Whittaker of this city, that the theory that Ney was ...

Napoleon also underestimated the Duke of Wellington and failed to issue clear orders to his commanders, Marshal Ney and General Grouchy, whose blunders led to the French leader’s final defeat ...