• La Grande Armée (French for 'The Great Army'; French pronunciation: [ɡʀɑ̃d aʀme]) was the main military component of the French Imperial Army commanded...
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    the Grande Armée. Command disputes between Jerome, Vandamme and Davout would not help the situation. In the first two weeks of July, the Grande Armée lost...
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    The uniforms of La Grande Armée, the army of Napoleon I, are described in this article. From 1793, the uniforms of the demi-brigade of the line infantry...
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    Tsar Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon's army also contained...
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  • Ranks of the Grande Armée describes the military ranks and the rank insignia used in Napoleon's Grande Armée. Officers and the most senior non-commissioned...
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  • As with all armed forces throughout history, the French Grande Armée of the Napoleonic Wars used a colorful and extensive vocabulary of slang terms to...
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    used scorched-earth tactics, and harried the Grande Armée with light Cossack cavalry. The Grande Armée did not adjust its operational methods in response...
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    Napoleon defeated Prussia at the battles of Jena and Auerstedt, marched the Grande Armée into Eastern Europe, and defeated the Russians in June 1807 at Friedland...
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  • This is the complete order of battle of the French and Third Coalition armies during the Battle of Austerlitz. The French army was under the supreme command...
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    The Column of the Grande Armée (French - Colonne de la grande Armée or Colonne Napoléone) is a 53 metre high Corinthian order triumphal column (modelled...
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    attached as an official artist to the Bavarian contingent in Bonaparte's Grande Armée. Throughout the campaign he sketched, painted and depicted an important...
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    general (major general) and assumed command of the 26th Division of the Grande Armée. This division consisted of troops from Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Berg...
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  • The I Corps of the Grande Armée was a French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. Though disbanded in 1814, following the Treaty of Fontainebleau...
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    French Army (redirect from Armée de Terre)
    across several lines of march and rejoin or to operate independently. The Grande Armée operated by seeking a decisive battle with each enemy army and then destroying...
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  • "Grande armée" is a song by French rapper Lacrim. It peaked at number two in France. "Lacrim – Grande armée" (in French). Ultratop 50. "Lacrim – Grande...
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    order of battle of the French invasion of Russia. Napoleon organized the Grande Armée the largest army assembled up to that point in European history. After...
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    victory involved the Ulm Campaign, a large wheeling manoeuvre by the Grande Armée lasting from late August to mid-October 1805 that captured an entire...
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  • (Grande Armée) VI Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) Garde Іmpériale (Grande Armée) I Corps (Grande Armée) II Corps (Grande Armée) III Corps (Grande Armée)...
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    The Scottish Guards (French: Gardes Écossaises) was a bodyguard unit founded in 1418 by the Valois Charles VII of France, to be personal bodyguards to...
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    engagements like Cannae or Gaugamela. The military victory of Napoleon's Grande Armée at Austerlitz brought the War of the Third Coalition to an end, with...
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    Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under Field Marshal Wittgenstein and Admiral...
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    shield (Avenue de la Grande Armée). Attic (Avenue de la Grande Armée). Attic (Avenue de la Grande Armée). Attic (Avenue de la Grande Armée). The names of the...
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    the Grande Armée, they allowed the French occupation of Moscow, using the city as bait to trap Napoleon and his men. The failure of the Grande Armée to...
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  • The III Corps of the Grande Armée was a French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. The corps came to prominence between 1805 and 1809...
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    The Avenue de la Grande Armée is an avenue in Paris, France, marking the boundary between its 16th and 17th arrondissements. It was formerly named Avenue...
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    Mikhail Kutuzov to take over command of the army. On 7 September, the Grande Armée faced the Russian army at a small village called Borodino, 110 kilometres...
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    and Avenue de la Grande Armée (to the south and west). The 17th arrondissement encompasses the area between Avenue de la Grande Armée and Avenue de Wagram...
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    The I Cavalry Corps of the Grande Armée was a French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. For one month in 1806–1807, Emperor Napoleon...
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    marshal Kutuzov inflicted significant blows upon the remnants of the Grande Armée, already severely weakened by attrition warfare. These confrontations...
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    the Grande Armée along the frontier of southern Saxony. In a preemptive strike to catch the Prussians unaware, the Emperor had the Grande Armée march...
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