Claude Marie Meunier
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Claude Marie Meunier became a French division commander during the Napoleonic Wars. He joined a volunteer regiment in 1792 and fought on the Rhine and in Italy as a captain. After a stint in the Consu
Claude Marie Meunier by Jacques-Louis David
Since the 1814 campaign was fought January–March, Meunier's infantrymen wore greatcoats if they were lucky.
Battle of Craonne
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The Battle of Craonne was fought between an Imperial French army under Emperor Napoleon I opposing a combined army of Imperial Russians and Prussians led by Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht vo
Claude Marie Meunier
…general of division at the end of 1813 and led a Young Guard division at Brienne, La Rothière, Champaubert, Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Vauchamps, Craonne, Laon and Reims in 1814. He married a daughter of painter Jacques-Louis David. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on…
The battle of Craonne, by Theodore Jung
Russian General Fabian von Osten-Sacken
Russian General Louis Andrault de Langeron
Prussian General Ludwig Yorck