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#OTD 10 May 1770 Louis-Nicolas Davout was born. He became Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon. His talent & disciplinarianism earned him the nickname "The Iron Marshal". He is ranked along with Marshals André Masséna and Jean Lannes as one of Napoleon's finest commanders.
Davout is often considered Napoleon's best Marshal (especially in independent command) and was fanatically loyal to Napoleon and his commands but he was very underutilized after the Russian debacle He was holed up inside Hamburg for 6 months instead of being out in the field and thus missed the Leipzig campaign of 1813 and the ...
Hace 5 días · 1770: Louis Nicolas Davout, general y político francés, ministro de Defensa (f. 1823). 1788: Augustín Fresnel, físico e ingeniero francés (f. 1827).
Hace 2 días · The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign ( French: Campagne de Russie) and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 ( Russian: Оте́чественная война́ 1812 го́да, romanized : Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda ), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with ...
Hace 4 días · 1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1823) 1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827) 1812 – William Henry Barlow, English engineer (d. 1902) 1813 – Montgomery Blair, American lieutenant and politician, 20th United States Postmaster General (d. 1883)
Hace 2 días · Presidida por Pascal Jan, prefecto de Yonne, la ceremonia de graduación de los cadetes de la gendarmería tuvo lugar el 8 de mayo en el cuartel de Davout, sede del grupo departamental de gendarmería de Yonne. Está bajo las órdenes del coronel Nicolas Nanni, al mando del grupo y en presencia del coronel Rénald Boismoreau,… Continue reading Yonne: ceremonia de...
Hace 4 días · Charles XIV John. Charles XIV John ( Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty. In Norway, he is known as Charles III John ( Norwegian: Karl III Johan) and before he became royalty in Sweden, his name was Jean ...
