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6 de may. de 2024 · In January 1800, following a challenging assignment as Commissaire Ordonnateur en Chef at the Armée d’Helvétie, under General André Masséna, Daru was recalled to the Ministry of War, and given by Berthier the responsibility to lead the First Division, responsible for personnel.
14 de may. de 2024 · Napoleon and Generals Louis-Alexandre Berthier and André Masséna reinvigorated the faltering advance, and the column swept forward to bayonet the Austrians away from their guns. An Austrian counterattack threatened to push back the French, but the timely arrival of French cavalry forced the Austrians to retire.
Hace 5 días · André Masséna, commanding the Army of Switzerland, sent a Demi-brigade to secure the Swiss town of Schaffhausen, on the north shore of the Rhine, which guaranteed communications between the two forces. The Advanced Guard crossed at Kehl, and Vandamme led it north-east through the mountains via Freudenstadt.
• 2 hr. ago. LoneWolfIndia. The Battle of Albuera during the Peninsular Wars takes place on this date in 1811, when a joint Anglo-Portuguese-Spanish force engaged the French Army of the South. The backdrop to this was André Masséna led French Army of Portugal being tied down in a standoff with Wellington's forces.
6 de may. de 2024 · Cette sous-série concerne en particulier les maréchaux d’Empire, ayant reçu cette dignité créée en 1804 par l’Empereur Napoléon 1er. Elle contient par exemple les dossiers de Louis Alexandre Berthier, Michel Ney, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Joachim Murat, André Masséna, Louis Nicolas Davout, Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans…
Hace 3 días · Peninsular War. The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
Hace 2 días · François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, Lazare Hoche, Jean Baptiste Kléber, André Masséna, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and a host of others, backed by officers who combined abilities as soldiers and their political sense. For the first time since the Roman Empire, a government succeeded in arming and feeding great numbers of soldiers.
