In 1804 Napoleon created 18 ‘Marshals of the Empire’, to serve as the senior officers of the Grande Armée. He created a further 8 before his abdication. A few were aristocrats, but others were the sons of shopkeepers or tailors. The most favoured became princes and kings. Among their ranks were legendary figures such as Marshals Lannes, Soult, Davout and Massena, but also much less well know figures like Pérignon, Brune and Moncey. Our series will explore the lives of all 26 Marshals, and rank them according to our own judgement of their achievements as Marshals.
Thank you to our series historical consultant Lt.Col.Rémy Porte, whose blog on military history (in French) you can read here:
Images used under Creative Commons license CC BY SA 3.0: Marshal’s baton by Rama via Wikimedia Commons Monument to Prince Józef Poniatowski in Warsaw by Adrian Grycuk via Flickr
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I hope you enjoy the first part of our Napoleon's Marshals series! Big thanks to video sponsor Call of War, the free to play WW2 strategy game in which you can rewrite history, use this link to download and get a new player bonus: https://callofwar.onelink.me/q5L6/3cea8033adviser Also big thanks to our historical adviser Lt.Col. Rémy Porte, former chief historian of the French Army, whose military history blog you can read (in French) here: http://guerres-et-conflits.over-blog.com Part 2 of Napoleon's Marshals will be out in late September, sign up at Patreon or follow us on FB, Twitter, Insta for production updates and extra content!
Interesting that there was a counter-Revolutionary revolt in Bordeaux. That gives credence to the fictional storyline in Sharpe of an alleged similar uprising.
As an American I love the history of any nation especially all the things in Europe with all the empires kings and wars and even how we got here because of it still kinda crazy
Someone tell me why Brune was so poorly rated ? I thought after Holland in 1799 , he beat the Austrians in Italy (Pozzolo) with a much bigger force ? He never gets a run after this battle …why is that ?
I hope you enjoy the first part of our Napoleon's Marshals series! Big thanks to video sponsor Call of War, the free to play WW2 strategy game in which you can rewrite history, use this link to download and get a new player bonus: https://callofwar.onelink.me/q5L6/3cea8033adviser Also big thanks to our historical adviser Lt.Col. Rémy Porte, former chief historian of the French Army, whose military history blog you can read (in French) here: http://guerres-et-conflits.over-blog.com Part 2 of Napoleon's Marshals will be out in late September, sign up at Patreon or follow us on FB, Twitter, Insta for production updates and extra content!
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I love how you publicly present some of the generals that were likely to become marshals and indeed, they should have become ones
What is the soundtrack to this channel it is amazing!
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We need indonesian subtitle
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20:14 that's not J.A. Poniatowski portrait (right side). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Lesseur-Poniatowski.jpg – this is more accurate of his portrait from service in Austrian army.
Interesting that there was a counter-Revolutionary revolt in Bordeaux. That gives credence to the fictional storyline in Sharpe of an alleged similar uprising.
I love the Napoleonic History, and this the best historic channel ever.
Over a year later, deciding to watch this series for a third time through. Truly excellent work.
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Could someone help to explain what the seniority levels (out of 26) for each marshal refers to?
Todos los mariscales en español, por favor.
I'm addicted to these video's , excellent work !!
As an American I love the history of any nation especially all the things in Europe with all the empires kings and wars and even how we got here because of it still kinda crazy
Someone tell me why Brune was so poorly rated ?
I thought after Holland in 1799 , he beat the Austrians in Italy (Pozzolo) with a much bigger force ?
He never gets a run after this battle …why is that ?
Comando el ala izquierda francés en la desastrosa batalla de Novi
Donde el ejército fue derrotado por los rusos de suvorov y perignon fue gravemente herido y capturado
Lucho contra los españoles en el frente de los Pirineos
Después de un retiro fue enviado a Italia
Comando el ala izquierda francés en la desastrosa batalla de Novi
donde el ejército fue derrotado por los rusos de suvorov y perignon fue gravemente herido y capturado
Al derrotar a un ejército 🇬🇧-🇷🇺 en la batalla de castricum y salvando a Francia de la invasión