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Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (17 de noviembre de 1765, Sedán - 25 de septiembre de 1840, castillo de Courcelles, cerca de Gien ) fue un militar francés, mariscal del Imperio desde 1809 y primer duque de Tarento.
- Étienne-Jacques-Joseph Macdonald
- Cementerio del Père-Lachaise y Grave of Macdonald
Fact file. Born Sedan (Ardennes), 17/ November, 1765, died in the Château de Courcelles-le-Roi (Beaulieu dur Loire, Loiret), 25 September, 1840. Son of a Scottish Jacobite. Served in the Légion Irlandaise, 1784. Lieutenant in the Régiment de Maillebois (served Holland), 1 April, 1785.
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (17 de noviembre de 1765, Sedán - 25 de septiembre de 1840, castillo de Courcelles, cerca de Gien ( Loiret) fue un militar francés, mariscal del Imperio desde 1809 y primer duque de Tarento.
- Soldier of The Revolution
- Disgrace and Redemption
- Marshal of The Empire
- Service to The Bourbons
The son of a Scottish soldier who had supported Bonnie Prince Charlie's failed attempt to take the English throne, Etienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre was born in France since his father had fled from Scotland after the failed uprising. Due to Macdonald's Scottish heritage, Napoleon was known to joke that he dared not let Macdonald within the sound of...
Macdonald returned to France and Paris at roughly the same time as General Bonaparte returned from Egypt. Macdonald, who knew Napoleon's wife Josephine, agreed to assist in the coup and took command at Versailles during Napoleon's coup d'état of 18th Brumaire. In recognition of his services, the next year Macdonald was given command of the Army of ...
During the spring of 1810, Marshal Macdonald was sent to Spain to take command of the Army of Catalonia. While there he won at Ververa, but in 1811 he fell ill and returned to Paris again. In 1812 Macdonald was given command of the X Corps of the Grande Armée for the campaign against Russia. Macdonald's corps missed most of the fighting of 1812 due...
With the return of the Bourbons to lead France, Macdonald was named a Peer of France and became governor of the 21st military division. Due to his honest and frank statements, the king nicknamed Macdonald, "His Outspokenness".3When Napoleon escaped from Elba to return for the Hundred Days, Macdonald attempted to rally the army to stop Napoleon's ap...
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald, nacido el 17 de noviembre de 1765 en Sedan, muerto el 25 de septiembre de 1840 en su castillo de Courcelles, ce...
Fils d'un jacobite écossais exilé en France, Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald voit le jour le 17 novembre 1765 à Sedan. C'est en 1785 qu'il embrasse la carrière militaire, après avoir entamé des études d'ingénieur selon certains, religieuses selon d'autres.
A short biography (with portrait) of Etienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (1765-1840), Duke of Taranto, Marshal of the First French Empire.
