Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout is often considered Napoleon’s greatest subordinate commander. ... Davout and Desaix returned to France in March 1800, but the latter was killed at the Battle of ...

Headed by their mayor, the citizens came out and welcomed Napoleon’s Marshal Davout with open arms; the local press lavished praise on the French. In those days, good middle-class Prussians ...

Around ten miles to the northeast, Marshal Davout’s III Corps ran into a sizable Prussian force, which turned out to be the Duke of Brunswick’s 65,000-strong Prussian main army. Heavily ...