Charles-Pierre Augereau
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Charles-Pierre-François Augereau, duc de Castiglione was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. After serving
1805 portrait
Heraldic achievement of Charles-Pierre-François Augereau, Duke of Castiglione
Portrait of Augereau by Jeanne Belloc, 1834
Adélaïde Josephine Bourlon de Chavange, Augereau's second wife
Grande Armée
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The Grande Armée was the primary field army of the French Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Commanded by Napoleon, from 1804 to 1812 it won a series of military victories that allowed the Firs
Charles-Pierre Augereau
…invasion of Britain. When Napoleon called off the invasion because of the growing threat from Austria and Russia, the camp became the VII Corps of the Grande Armée. With this force, Augereau fought in the War of the Third Coalition. His corps was charged with protecting the army's lines of communications during…
Napoleon Distributing the Legion of Honour at the Camp of Boulogne by Philippe-Auguste Hennequin. Napoleon is shown at the Camp of Boulogne on August 16, 1804
The Battle of Austerlitz, 2nd December 1805, by François Gérard
Napoleon reviewing the Imperial Guard at the Battle of Jena, 14 October 1806
Charge of the French cuirassiers at Friedland (1807), by Ernest Meissonier