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10 de oct. de 2020 · Davout, Louis Nicolas, duc d'Auerstaedt et prince d'Eckmuehl, 1770-1823 Publisher Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English
Louis Nicolas d’Avout puis Davout, duc d'Auerstaedt, prince d'Eckmühl, né le 10 mai 1770 à Annoux en Bourgogne et mort le 1er juin 1823 à Paris, est un général français de la Révolution et de l’Empire, élevé à la dignité de maréchal d'Empire par Napoléon en 1804. Issu d'une famille de petite noblesse, Davout fait ses ...
Louis-Nicolas Davout came to fame in 1804 as Napoleonic France's youngest Marshal, and from that time on he remained one of the most successful and feared military commanders of his time. He remains one of only a handful of officers in history to successfully execute a large-scale tactical double envelopment of an enemy army twice his size.
Napoleon with his troops on the eve of battle. Painting by Louis-François, Baron Lejeune. The battle began with the French army outnumbered. Napoleon had some 72,000 men and 157 guns for the impending battle, with about 7,000 troops under Davout still far to the south in the direction of Vienna.
There, he met the other commanders — Marshal JeanBaptiste Bernadotte commanding the 1st Corps; Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout commanding the 3rd; Marshal Jean Lannes, the 4th; Joachim Murat, the Cavalry; Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessieres, The Guard; and Marshal Berthiér, the Chief of Staff. At this morning meeting, Napoleon made some adjustments to the plan he had worked out the previous night ...
Louis-Nicolas d'Avout (10 May 1770 1 June 1823), better known as Davout (or sometimes Davoust), was a Marshal of France and one of Napoleon's most brilliant generals. He participated in all of Napoleon's major campaigns and most of the major battles, though he was absent from the fighting at Waterloo. Davout had the singular distinction of ...
Marshal Jean-Baptiste BernadotteBernadotte. was stationed in Bohemia and Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout in Presbourg. Both were called back just before the battle. By the end of November, Napoleon was already heavily outnumbered (50,000 men against 86,000) and had every reason to fear that this situation would get worse, since he knew that Prussia was just waiting for an opportunity to join the ...
