* Jean Lannes, Duke of Montebello ( 1769-1809 ), Marshal of France in 1804, fought in: Arcola, Aboukir, Egypt, Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena.

The Imperial Guard and Bernadotte's I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under Lannes guarded the northern sector of the battlefield, where the new communication line was located.

The mop-up of what Napoleon thought was a " curtain of three regiments " was left to Davout, even though more than half of the III Corps ' original units had been detached to create Lannes ' task force.

Knowing that Napoleon was within supporting distance with at least three corps, Lannes sent aides galloping off with messages for help and waged an expert delaying action to fix Benningsen in place.

While the French marshal, Lannes, who wasted no time, was approaching the outskirts of the city from the mountains of the north wind and the sun rose.

Lannes was surprised that there was no monitoring and that the enemy does not appear anywhere.

Meanwhile the defenders of the hillock of Santa Barbara rejected the rush of the Division of Mathieu Maurice, the bulk of the forces of Lannes, down Boreas Mountains by the closed and the Pillar of Santo Domingo, was preparing to attack the center the Spanish, while their artillery exchanged some shots with ours, located in the foothills of Santa Quiteria.

Marshal Lannes, exhausted by the effort of the day and resentful of his recent injury, was ill in Tudela.

The other was then a captain of the guard surnamed Lannes Marbot.

Event soon came to the ears of Lannes, who was angry with his official and publicly declared that he no longer would include among his escort.

Just someone who was with Lannes when saying goodbye to Marbot, made him see the danger that the messenger could run at night across the mountains of Soria.

A personal friend and one of the Emperor's ablest commanders, Lannes was severely wounded while leading his men at Aspern-Essling and had to be amputated.

Napoleon recognized the situation Ney was in and ordered Marshal Lannes to shift from the center of attack to help Ney.

His refusal to sign the proclamation of congratulation for declaring empire was soon met when his name was not included in the first list of Napoleonic Marshals, while commanders such as Lannes, Bessières and Soult who had not had independent command experience were included.

Jean Lannes, 1st Duc de Montebello, ( 10 April 1769 – 31 May 1809 ) was a Marshal of the Empire.

Lannes was born in the small town of Lectoure, in the Gers department in the south of France.

He was the son of a Gascon farmer, Jeannet Lannes ( 1733 – 1812, son of Jean Lannes ( d. 1746 ) and wife Jeanne Pomiès ( d. 1770 ) and paternal grandson of Pierre Lane and wife Bernarde Escossio, both died in 1721 ), and wife Cécile Fouraignan ( 1741 – 1799 ), and was apprenticed to a dyer.

One of his direct descendants, Philippe Lannes de Montebello, was until 2008 the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

After Bonaparte's take over and appointment as Consul of France, Lannes was promoted to the ranks of general of division and commandant of the consular guard.

Ott could not see any sign of the expected main French advance from Sale ( to the northeast ), so he sent GM Friedrich Heinrich von Gottesheim ’ s reinforced advance guard to outflank Lannes north of Marengo.

Because he feared that the woods to his left might contain Austrians, Lannes slowed his march so he could scout the terrain to the east.

On August 23, leaving the command to Kleber, Bonaparte embarked on the frigate Muiron, with Berthier, Murat, Lannes and others, because, from reading the British newspapers, he learned the recent defeats of the Management.

Lannes held his own, and by noon Napoleon arrived with 40, 000 French troops at the scene of the battle.

Napoleon gave brief orders: Ney's corps would take the line between Postlienen and the Sortlack Wood, Lannes closing on his left, to form the centre, Mortier at Heinrichsdorf the left wing.

Napoleon ordered the November 18 Jean Lannes at Tudela to advance to the following schedule: 21 to Lodosa, 22 to 23 to Calahorra and Tudela.

Napoleon with Marshal of the Empire | Maréchal Jean Lannes.

On 5 October, Napoleon ordered Ney to join Lannes, Soult, and Murat in concentrating and crossing the Danube at Donauwörth.

On November 23, 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte's Marshal Lannes won the Battle of Tudela in the Peninsular War.

Napoleon once commented on Lannes: " I found him a pygmy and left him a giant ".

Lannes purchased the seventeenth-century Château de Maisons, near Paris, in 1804 and had one of its state apartments redecorated for a visit from Napoleon.

After this, Lannes was to be tested as a commander-in-chief, for Napoleon took him to Spain in 1808, and gave him a detached wing of the army, with which he won a victory over Castaños at Tudela on 22 November.

In 1807, Napoleon recreated the duchy of Siewierz ( Sievers ), and granted it to Jean Lannes, after Prussia was forced to cede all her acquisitions from the 2nd and 3rd partitions of Poland.

Just looking from the French perspective, the novel provides a rather realistic description of combat in the Napoleonic era, as well as detailed depictions of famous commanders such as Napoleon, Massena, and Lannes.

Napoleon directed his German allies from the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Württemberg to attack across the Abens from the west, while Lannes thrust from the north toward Rohr.

When Lannes arrived at the front, Napoleon immediately placed him in command of a provisional corps.

It was thus with Lannes at Friedland and at Aspern as it was with Davout at Austerlitz and Auerstädt, and Napoleon's estimate of his subordinates ' capacities can almost exactly be judged by the frequency with which he used them to prepare the way for his own shattering blow.

The first decisions of these goals focused Lannes: Attack partly Spanish right flank ( Tudela ), recognize and deepen the center ( mountains to the shore of Queiles Urzante ), for which he left in reserve divisions and Granjean Morlot, and third: throw the mass of his cavalry against Cascante to prevent General Lapeña Tudela corriese to their lines and to allow time to reach the Division Lagrange thought to face the Andalusians.

It gives Lannes for his departure and arrival time is the decisive blow.

When he reached Tudela, Lannes received him by lamenting his misfortunes and praise for his courage.

Lannes battered them with cannon for a bit and when they showed signs of disorganization he ordered a charge by his infantry whilst sending a unit against the flank.

Napoleon's orders had not allowed for this, and unaware of the odds against him Lannes attacked.

Lannes advanced with three infantry divisions and travelled for a mile before the Austrians, inspired by the personal heroics of Charles with his rally of the Zach Infantry Regiment ( No. 15 ), unleashed a hail of fire on the French that caused the latter to fall back.

Covered by these cavalry charges Lannes ’ infantry performed prodigies and what more they could have accomplished remains unknown for, at 8 a. m. a spurring courier brought orders for the marshal to halt in place.

Without waiting for Kleber, he approached Abukir with the divisions of Lannes, Desaix and Murat's cavalry, 10, 000 men and 1, 000 horsemen and the Turks gathered 18, 000 men, 8, 000 of whom were in a condition to fight.