Bear

Edouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier(1768-1835)

Duke of Trevise

He would be murdered by Fieschi's.

The three best generals were Davout, Soult and Bessieres. Mortier was the most feeble.

Napoleon

General Inspector of the Imperial Guard

Paris, 18 June 1813

Monsieur the Duke

In compliance with the provisions contained in this letter your Excellency made me the honour of writing me about the named Jacques Francois Dehoux, who has come back, after a short absence, to the Regiment Chasseurs a Chevel of the Imperial Guard. I have given orders to the Capitaine of Gendermerie de la Doyle, to have the preceedings that could be instituted against him stopped. I have the honour of offering your Excellency the expression of my high regard.

(Signed)

Marshal Duke of Conegliano

Bon Adrien Jeannot de Moncey(1754-1842)

Duke of Conegliano

He would die of old age in Paris.

He was an honest man.

Napoleon

Massena General en Chief

Milan

Order:

In execution of article 39 of the contract passed on the 19th of this month with Citizens Guyot de La Pomeraie and Co. by the Commissioner Orderly in Chief and approved by the General in Chief of the supply of food, bread and sundry supplies. The Commissioner in Chief will have 300,000 francs paid to Citizens Guyot de La Pomeraie and Co. as an advance installment on the advances referred to in article 39 of said contract. The sum will be taken from the credit of 1,500,000 francs, and replaced in that credit along with the payment of the funds coming from the Lingurian Government. The order will be transmitted to the General Paymaster and Orderly in Chief, who will execute it, each for what concerns him.

Signed

MASSENA

Andre Massena(1758-1817)

Duke of Rivoli

He would die in Paris.

He was once a very superior man who, by a very special dispensation, possessed that greatly desired coolness in the heat of an action; he came alive when surrounded by danger. Massena, who was endowed with rare courage and such remarkable tenacity, also had a talent that increased the greater the danger, when defeated, he was always ready to begin again as if he was in fact the victor.

Napoleon

Untranslated September 2, 1815

Auguste Frederic Louis Viesse de Marmont(1774-1852)

Duke of Raguse

He would die of old age in Venice.

The ungrateful fellow - he will be much unhappier than I(1814). Many others were much worse than he, who did not have much sense of shame that he felt. Vanity was his undoing an excess to folly.

Napoleon

Legion of Honor

Jacques Eitienne Joseph Alexandre Macdonald(1765-1840)

Duke of Tarante

He would die of old age.

He was a reliable man, good to command between 15,000 and 20,000 men. Brave, but slaow and lazy. Macdonald and others like him were good when they knew where they were and under my orders; further away, it was a different matter. He was good and brave, but unlucky.

Napoleon

Headquarters Limeil

3 April 1798

Lefebvre, General of Division to General of Brigade Oudinot.

I?m surprised that General Dessaix and General Lecourbe have not corresponded. He is from 17 or 18 my aides de camp at Coutances and I follow two or three days and I am flattered that every thing will be arranged.

(signed)

LEFEBVRE

note: This is a document by Lefebvre at Limeil(Paris) while with the army of England(Angleterre). The document is dated the 3rd of April 1798 just a month and a half before Bonaparte set sail for Egypt. The letter mentions General Dessaix and General Lecourbe and the location of Coutances, which I think was a staging point for the invasion of England

Francois Joseph Lefebvre(1755-1820)

Duke of Danzig

He would die of old age in Paris

A truly brave man whose only thought was to fight better. He had no fear of death. He possessed the sacred fire.

Napoleon

Hello,

I came across this website and thought I'd post a link. They have pictures of two medal bars that are very nice. They have alot more that aren't pictured.

Glenbow Museum

http://www.glenbow.org/collections/museum/...tary/canada.cfm

thanks,

barry

I'd say name recognition goes to Nelson.

My vote would goto Hugh Dowding the commander of the RAF during the Battle of Britain.

Wiki Dowding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Dowding

thanks,

barry

Hello,

I always thought this was unique. They were named after Napoleonic French Marshal Ney and Soult and they served in WWI through WWII.

Wiki Ney Ship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Marshal_Ney

The diesel engines used by the ships were a constant source of technical difficulty, restricting their use. Marshal Ney in particular was, in the words of Jane's Fighting Ships, "practically a failure", on account of her MAN diesel engines being so unreliable.

Wiki Marshal Ney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal_Ney

Wiki Soult Ship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Marshal_Soult

Wiki Marshal Soult

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal_Soult

thanks,

barry

Not his handwriting. Maybe an Aide or Wife or ...............

Lannes had just taken Saragossa in Spain and was on his way to join Napoleon in the war against Austria. The fragment is dated April 10, 1809 while he was passing through Paris.

When he reached Paris on 9 April, Lannes found his orders waiting. He did not know that Napoleon had debated whether to leave him in Spain and assign the 2nd Corps to Bernadotte so that he may do something useful, for once. As much as he hated Spain, it may have been better for him and the future of the Peninsula had the emperor's coin toss landed in favor of Bernadotte going against the Hapsburgs. Lannes would have almost no time to spend with his family at Maisons, but he delayed his departure as long as he reasonably could. He visited the Empress Josephine the evening before he left, because Napoleon had already been gone for two weeks. It was a formal visit, required by court and military protocol, but it was an odd one. The soldier who Josephine had known since 1797, who once told Napoleon he should have married a much younger woman, was so unusually subdued that she asked what was wrong. He seemed reluctant to answer, but she persisted. "Ive got a really bad feeling [about this campaign], and I don't want to leave my family." Discussing him after he had gone, the empress and her attendant, Mademoiselle Marie-Jeanne Avrillion, decided Lannes was a victim of presentiment. Mlle Avrillion later wrote that "in spite of his incomparable bravery, his audacity that vanquished all dangers, his usually calm challenging of death, Lannes's attitude about this campaign was markedly different from all the others in which he had willingly participated. Whether from presentiment or from some other reason, he obviously did not want to go." Another acquaintance met him in Paris before he left and wished him a speedy return. "I don't know if I'll come back," Lannes told him,"but if I do I'll just have to leave for somewhere else. It's the emperor's destiny to make war and it's mine to follow him until the end. We'll both die, whether it's now or later. I just wish we could be boys again."

THE EMPEROR'S FRIEND

by Margaret Scott Chrisawn

Lannes would be mortally wounded at the battle of Aspern-Essling on May 21, 1809. Napoleon cried....

Voucher for six long coats for ? Duoray, Julien ? Etienne and Georges, footman and coachmen for his lordship.

8 December 1807

(Signed)

LANNES

Untranslated

Ambassador Portugal

General of Division

Jean Lannes(1769-1809)

Duke of Montebello

Lannes would be killed at Aspern Essling after being his by a cannon ball.

In the case of Lannes, his courage in the first place carried him further than his spirit; but each day his spirit rose to the occasion, and restored the balance. He had truly become a superior being by the time he perished; I found him a pygmy, but I lost a giant.

Napoleon

Paris, on the 12th Prairial, An 8 R?p.

G?n?ral Kellermann, Member of the Senate

Conservative

To G?n?ral de Brigade Pouget, Commanding the 8th Division of the Arm?e d?Italie.

I forward you enclosed, my dear G?n?ral, a letter that I have just received from the Minister for War in answer to the last I wrote to ask him your reinstatement in the rank of G?n?ral Divisionnaire. You?ll read there that the Premier Consul has decided to wait for the opinion of G?n?ral en Chef Massena before making a decision.

I renew, my dear G?n?ral, the assurance of my feelings of affection and frienship towards you.

Kellermann

State of the sums paid from the 300,000F and 500,000F funds granted to the representatives anf generals of the Army of the Alps, by the orders of the Committees of Public Salute and of finances, gathered on the dates of Messidor 6th and Fructidor 12th.

(Paid) on orders from Rept (Representative) R?al and Gal (General) Moulin 771,959. 19.6

(Paid) on warrants from General Kellermann 11,040. .

782,999.19.6

Remains available from the abovementionned funds 17, . .6

50,000F funds destined to the secret expenses, granted by order of the Committees of finances and Public salute gathered on the date of Messidor 6th 50,000 F

Out of which has been paid on warrants from General Kellermann 40,000F

Remains available 10,000F

500,000F funds granted by order of the Committees of finances and Public salute gathered on the date of Vendemiaire 7th

Note. Representative Real, in his letter of 7 Frimaire, divided this fund in two equal parts, he put 250,000F at the disposal of the General in Chief and 250,000F, at the disposal of the Chief Ordonnateur (?). The part at the disposal of the General in Chief is whole??250,000F

Certified true copy

The General in Chief of the Army of the Alps

(Signed)

KELLERMANN

Francois Christophe Kellermann(1735-1820)

Duke of Valmy

Kellermann would die of old age in Paris.

I think that I was probably the boldest general who ever lived, but I wouldn't have dared to take post there topped by a windmill at Valmy.

Napoleon

This is a document by Jourdan to the Minister of War(Berthier) dated 1802.