Thanks to the dogged defense waged by the III Corps, commanded by Marshal Davout, and the Bavarian VII Corps, commanded by Marshal Lefebvre, Napoleon was able to defeat the principal Austrian army and wrest the strategic initiative for the remainder of the war.

As commander of the 1st Bavarian Division in VII Corps, he served under Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre in 1809.

* François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig ( 1755 – 1820 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1804 ( Honorary )

On August 13 – 14, his Tyroleans defeated the French troops of Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre, in the third of the Battles of Bergisel, in a 12-hour battle after a downhill charge.

Following the conclusion of the 1809 Danubian campaign, D ' Erlon was sent as Chief of Staff to Marshal Lefebvre.

In 1807 he defended Danzig for 78 days against the French under Marshal Lefebvre, with far greater skill and energy than he had shown in the previous year.

* VII ( Bavarian ) Corps: Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre

On 24 May 1807, the Siege of Danzig ended when Prussian General Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth capitulated to French Marshal Francois Joseph Lefebvre.

Charles went to war in 1807 as head of the Baden contingent under Marshal Lefebvre.

* 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France ( d. 1793 )

Camille d ' Hostun, duc de Tallard | Marshal Tallard ( 1652 – 1728 ).

* 1718 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France ( d. 1804 )

* December 7 – Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, Marshal of France ( d. 1841 )

* January 4 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Marshal of France ( b. 1628 )

* October 21 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione ( d. 1816 )

* August 22 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France ( b. 1713 )

* June 12 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione ( b. 1757 )

* September 28 – Henri de La Tour d ' Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, Marshal of France ( d. 1623 )

* October 19 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France ( d. 1804 )

* April 21 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France ( d. 1793 )

* June 11 – Louis Joseph de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France ( b. 1654 )

The Allies had initially split on the best candidate for the throne: Britain favoured the Bourbons, the Austrians considered a regency for Napoleon's son, François Bonaparte, and the Russians were open to either the duc d ' Orléans, Louis Philippe, or Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Napoleon's former Marshal, who was in line for the Swedish throne.

* François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, a Marshal of France

After a forced march, the Allies crossed the river Schelde at Oudenaarde just as the French army, under Marshal Vendôme and the duc de Burgundy, was crossing farther north with the intent of besieging the place.

Napoleon ordered Marshal Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, to Montereau, but Victor's force was slow in marching on Montereau, this gave time for Württemberg to strengthen his hasty positions.

It resulted in the victory of the French under Marshal François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg against a joint English-Scottish-Dutch-German army under Prince William of Orange.

After the defeat of France, Chateaubriand, who had declared himself shocked by the 1804 execution of the duc d ' Enghien, voted in December 1815 for Marshal Ney's execution at the Chamber of Peers.

César, duc de Choiseul, comte du Plessis-Praslin ( 1602 – 23 December 1675 ) was a Marshal of France and French diplomat, generally known for the best part of his life as the maréchal ( marshal ) du Plessis-Praslin.

He was allowed to keep his sabre and to move freely, bound only by his word of honour, and soon was exchanged for Marshal Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, and was actively employed in Pomerania, at Berlin, and at Königsberg until the conclusion of the war.

Thomas Robert Bugeaud, marquis de la Piconnerie, duc d ' Isly ( 15 October 1784 – 10 June 1849 ) was a Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria.

In 1755, after the death of Count Friesen, who was a nephew of Marshal Saxe and an officer in the French army, Grimm secured a sinecure worth 2000 livres a year as secretaire des commandements to the Louis Philippe, duc d ' Orléans, a lover of theatre ; in this capacity he accompanied Marshal d ' Estrées on the Westphalia campaign of 1756 – 57.

The work of re-organization over, Marshal Turenne began the campaign in June 1644 by crossing the Rhine at Breisach, but almost instantly an army under the duc d ' Enghien ( afterwards the great Condé ) joined him.

Her brother, Nicholas Joseph Clary, was created 1st Count Clary and married Anne Jeanne Rouyer, by whom he had Zénaïde Françoise Clary ( Paris, 25 November 1812 – Paris, 27 April 1884 ), wife of Napoléon Berthier de Wagram, 2nd duc de Wagram ( 10 September 1810 – 10 February 1887 ), son of Marshal Berthier, and had issue.

To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.

" Approval from Louis arrived on 27 June: Tallard was to reinforce Marsin and the Elector on the Danube via the Black Forest, with 40 battalions and 50 squadrons ; Villeroi was to pin down the Allies defending the Lines of Stollhofen, or, if the Allies should move all their forces to the Danube, he was to join with Marshal Tallard ; and General de Coignies with 8, 000 men, would protect Alsace.

François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, Marshal of France, ( 1644 – 1730 ) by Alexandre-François Caminade.

Others who were either killed or captured at the actual Battle were as follows: King Jean II ; Prince Philip ( youngest son and progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy ), Geoffroi de Charny, carrier of the Oriflamme, Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Walter VI, Count of Brienne and Constable of France, Jean de Clermont, Marshal of France, Arnoul d ' Audrehem, the Count of Eu, the Count of Marche and Ponthieu Jacques de Bourbon taken prisoner at the Battle and died 1361, the Count of Étampes, the Count of Tancarville, the Count of Dammartin, the Count of Joinville, Guillaume de Melun, Archbishop of Sens.

* Jean de Clermont, Marshal of France, killed

He interacted adeptly with allies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle.

* 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.

It is also suggested the first dragoons were raised by the Marshal de Brissac in 1600.

* Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, General, French Army ( later a Marshal of France )

* 1889 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France ( d. 1952 )

* 1705 January – Philip V replaced Villadarias with the Marshal of France de Tessé.

* 1558 – Battle of Gravelines: in France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.

* 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France ( Chef de l ' État Français ).

The king was supported by a team of leading barons with military expertise, including William Longespée, William the Marshal, Roger de Lacy and, until he fell from favour, the marcher lord William de Braose.

He simultaneously administered vast sections of the Soviet state and served as de facto Marshal of the Soviet Union in command of the NKVD field units responsible for anti-partisan operations on the Eastern Front during World War II, as well as for acting as barrier troops and the apprehension of thousands of " turncoats, deserters, cowards and suspected malingerers ".

* 1653 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Duke of Villars, French general, Marshal General of France ( d. 1734 )

* 1567 – Anne de Montmorency, Marshal and Constable of France ( b. 1493 )