Louis-François Lejeune
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Brigade-General Louis-François, Baron Lejeune was a French Army officer, painter, lithographer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. His memoirs have frequently be
Portrait of Lejeune after a Jean-Urbain Guérin portrait
The Battle of the Pyramids (1808)
The Battle of Marengo (1801)
Battle of Aboukir, 27 July 1799 (1804)
Battle of Marengo
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The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy. Near the end of t
Louis-François Lejeune
…which he took an active part in practically all of the Napoleonic campaigns. He was wounded and captured in Spain. He was promoted to full captain after Marengo and chef de bataillon after Austerlitz, also becoming a knight of the Légion d'honneur and a colonel at the Siege of Saragossa. The German campaign of…
Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David
Torre Garofoli, Napoleon's headquarters before the battle
Michael von Melas led the centre of the army during the attack, but he mistakenly believed that the battle was over before the arrival of Desaix.