Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
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Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 1st Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr was a French military leader of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was a made a Marshal of the Empire in 1812 by E
Portrait of Marshal Saint-Cyr by Horace Vernet, 1821
Laurent Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, captain in the 1st Battalion of Chasseurs of Paris in 1792, by Georges Rouget, 1835
Portrait by Jean-Urbain Guérin, 1801
Portrait by Charles-Aimé Forestier
First Battle of Polotsk
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In the First Battle of Polotsk, which took place on 17–18 August 1812, Russian troops under the command of Peter Wittgenstein fought French and Bavarian troops led by Nicolas Oudinot near the city of
Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
…Catalonia. He took command of the VI Corps of the Grande armée during the Russian campaign, where he obtained his marshal's baton for his victory at the First Battle of Polotsk. He served in the German campaign of 1813 and was taken prisoner at the capitulation of Dresden in November 1813. Returning to France in June 1814…
Jean-Charles Langlois. Battle of Polotsk on August 18, 1812
19th-century Russian lithograph depicting Wittgenstein's Chevalier-Guardsmen fighting the first battle of Polotsk.
Pursuit of French chasseurs à cheval by Horse Guardsmen near Polotsk on 18 August 1812. Depicted by Philipp Chirko