François Joseph Lefebvre
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François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Na
Heraldic achievement of François-Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig
Statue of Lefebvre at the Louvre Palace, Paris
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon was a Marshal of France and a soldier in the Grande Armée during the Napoleonic Wars. He notably commanded the I Corps of the Army of the North at the Battle of Wat
François Joseph Lefebvre
…of Arnhofen, Eckmühl, and Wagram. That same year, Lefebvre was tasked with suppressing the Tyrolean Rebellion, but was replaced in this command by Drouet d'Erlon after a series of setbacks. Lefebvre commanded the infantry of the Old Guard in the 1812 French invasion of Russia, and fought at the Battle of Borodino…
Portrait by Charles-Philippe Larivière, 1843