Battle of Gué-à-Tresmes
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The Battle of Gué-à-Tresmes was fought between 14,500 French troops, including the Imperial Old Guard, led by Marshals Auguste de Marmont and Édouard Mortier, and 12,000 Prussians commanded by Friedri
Kleist's Prussians may have witnessed a scene like this as the 2nd Old Guard Division advanced toward them. Photo is from a reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo.
Auguste de Marmont
Friedrich von Kleist
Édouard Mortier
Auguste de Marmont
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Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, duc de Raguse was a French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire and was awarded the title Duke of Ragusa. In the Peninsular War,
Battle of Gué-à-Tresmes
…The Battle of Gué-à-Tresmes (28 February–1 March 1814) was fought between 14,500 French troops, including the Imperial Old Guard, led by Marshals Auguste de Marmont and Édouard Mortier, and 12,000 Prussians commanded by Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf and Friedrich von Katzler. On 28 February the French attacked…
Portrait by Andrea Appiani, 1798
Equestrian portrait of Marmont
Heraldic achievement of Auguste-Frédéric-Louis Viesse de Marmont, Duke of Ragusa