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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French invasion of Russia (section Grande Armée)
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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tactics as it withdrew east, and harried the Grande Armée with light Cossack cavalry. The Grande Armée did not adjust its operational methods in response...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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