Battle of Wertingen
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In the Battle of Wertingen Imperial French forces led by Marshals Joachim Murat and Jean Lannes attacked a small Austrian corps commanded by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Franz Xaver von Auffenberg. This act
Bas-relief of the battle from the Column of the Grande Armée
La bataille de Wertingen by E. L. Lami
Jean Lannes
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Jean Lannes, 1st Duke of Montebello, Prince of Siewierz, was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Battle of Wertingen
…In the Battle of Wertingen (8 October 1805 / 16 vendémiaire an XIV) Imperial French forces led by Marshals Joachim Murat and Jean Lannes attacked a small Austrian corps commanded by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Franz Xaver von Auffenberg. This action, the first battle of the Ulm Campaign…
Lannes in the uniform of colonel of the hussars, by Jean-Charles Nicaise Perrin (between 1805–1810)
Lannes' birthplace in Lectoure
Lannes as a Sous-lieutenant of the 2nd Battalion of the Gers in 1792, by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin (1835)
Lannes at the Battle of Bassano, 1796