Battle of Courtrai (1814)
The Battle of Courtrai saw Johann von Thielmann's Kingdom of Saxony troops and a few Prussians encounter an Imperial French force under Nicolas Joseph Maison near Kortrijk (Courtrai), a city south-west of Ghent in what is now Belgium. Thielmann attacked only to find himself facing the bulk of Maison's I Corps. The action ended in a rout of the Saxons, most of whom were under fire for the first time.
Nicolas Maison
Johann von Thielmann
Hellwig's Streifcorps
Pierre Barrois
Nicolas Joseph Maison, 1st Marquis of Maison was a French military officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and as commander of the Morea expedition during the Greek War of Independence. He was made a Marshal of France in 1829 and served as Minister of War from 1835 to 1836.
Portrait by Léon Cogniet, 1835
Nicolas Joseph Maison, grenadier in the 1st battalion of Paris in 1792, by Léon Cogniet (1834)
Surrender of the Castle of Morea of Patras to General Nicolas Joseph Maison (by Jean-Charles Langlois)
Meeting of General Maison and Ibrahim Pasha at Navarino in September 1828 (by Jean-Charles Langlois)