On 13 October, Langlois also approached Admiral Duperré and Marshall Soult ( President of the Council ), stating that he had promises of support from Le Havre and that he would be able to make an offer acceptable to the Government.

Langlois also received two sets of instructions, one from Soult as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and one from Duperré as Minister of Marine.

On the same day, Napoleon ordered Soult to abandon both Austerlitz and the Pratzen Heights and also create an image of chaos during the retreat ; that would make the enemies occupy the Heights.

In 1843 Marshal Soult declared that Abd-el-Kader was one of the three great men then living ; the two others, Imam Shamil and Muhammad Ali of Egypt also being Muslims.

Beresford also had the relatively unscathed Portuguese division, Alten's KGL and several Spanish battalions ready for duty ; Soult, in contrast, only had Godinot's brigade and Latour-Maubourg's cavalry in a fit state to fight.

Soult, on the basis of higher allied casualties, also claimed " a signal victory ".

Marshal Soult also took an active interest in the work and arranged for the French translation of Mathieu Dumas.

Many French generals, such as Masséna, MacDonald, Davout, Soult, Lannes, Oudinot, and Berthier also appear ( and give a significant advantage to France ).

After seizing Allenstein ( Olsztyn ), Soult moved north on the east bank of the Alle.

Soult moved his Corps to the east to relieve Genoa.

This posed a major threat to the French, so Soult moved at once to engage.

Soult ordered up Girard's division to support the wavering IV Corps battalions.

Soult, with so many prisoners on his hands, released the civilians of the militias and ordenanças, under oath of not taking up arms against the French, and tried to recruit 500 of the line troops, who soon deserted.

However, Soult was again acting on outdated information ; unknown to the Marshal, the Spaniards had already linked up with the Anglo-Portuguese corps, and his 24, 000 troops now faced a combined Allied army 35, 000 strong.

Beresford deployed his troops on the reverse slopes of such hills as could be found on the battlefield ; unable to see the Allied army, Soult was still unaware that Blake's Spanish divisions had come up during the night.

However, the presence of Cole's fresh 4th Division, still formed up in readiness behind Lumley's squadrons, seems to have persuaded Soult not to use his strong force of horsemen.

After some delay Beresford brought up three Portuguese brigades and drove the Grenadiers back, but by this time Soult had massed his artillery in a line against the Allies and Beresford did not further commit his forces.

French casualties are harder to ascertain — Soult initially declared 2, 800 in his dispatch to Napoleon, but the official figure drawn up on 6 July revised that number upward to 5, 936.

Soult held Toulouse during the day of 11 April but decided to pull out of the city upon detecting allied cavalry moving up the Toulouse-Carcassonne road.

However, Moore failed to follow up against a surprised Soult, halting for two days and allowing Soult to concentrate his corps.

Soult was able to refit his corps, which had been on the march and fighting since 9 November, with the captured stores so that, with his stragglers now closed up on the main body, he was able to begin his march on Portugal on 1 February with a strength of 19, 000 infantry, 4, 000 cavalry and 58 guns.

The Battle of Grijó () ( May 10, 1809 – May 11, 1809 ) was a battle that ended up in victory for the Anglo-Portuguese Army commanded by Sir Arthur Wellesley ( the future 1st Duke of Wellington ) over the French army commanded by Marshal Nicolas Soult during the second French invasion of Portugal in the Peninsular War.

Rather than use the Maya Pass, Soult elected to head north up the Bidassoa River valley.

Instead of retreating over Maya Pass as Wellington expected, Soult marched north up the Bidassoa River valley.

Pursued onto French soil, Soult was maneuvered out of several positions at Nivelle, Nive, and Orthez, before dealing Wellington a final bloody nose at the Battle of Toulouse.

Dependable generals with the usual military virtue, or careful and exact troop leaders like Soult and Macdonald, are kept under Napoleon's own hand for the final assault which he himself launched ; the long hours of preparatory fighting against odds of two to one, which alone made the final blow possible, he entrusted only to men of extraordinary courage and high capacity for command.

Marshal Soult withdraws to the town after the Battle of Toulouse before signing a final surrender at Naurouze.

Soult had Werlé's divisional-sized brigade in reserve, and most of Latour-Maubourg's cavalry had not been engaged.

Soult now knew a successful attack against Lisbon was beyond his means with the forces proposed — there were 30, 000 Allied troops and six major fortresses between his army and the Portuguese capital — but he had received orders nonetheless and felt obliged to do something.

At the same time, Soult led a small force, some 150 musket-men, across the river Linth — the men held their muskets over their heads and waded across, through water to their chests — and protected the crossing site for the remainder of the force ; Hotze was killed during this maneuver when Soult's men surprised him on an early morning reconnaissance.

The French were separated in two massive rings at this point: the forces of Ney, Lannes and Murat to the west were containing Mack, while those of Soult, Davout, Bernadotte and Marmont to the east were charged with guarding against any possible Russian and Austrian incursions.

Soult was given command of the French forces and began a counter-offensive, dealing the allied generals two sharp defeats at the Battle of Maya and the Battle of Roncesvalles.

However, when Beresford met with Blake and Castaños, the two most senior Spanish generals, at Valverde on 14 May, he allowed himself to be persuaded that the numerical superiority the Allied army had over Soult justified risking a battle.

With Soult moving east, Wellington sent Beresford and two divisions to seize Bordeaux, the third-largest city of France.

Over two days Soult concentrated his troops and tried to get Ney to send a division from Villa Franca del Bierzo but Ney sent few troops.

On 25 July, Soult and two French corps fought the reinforced British 4th Division and a Spanish division at the Battle of Roncesvalles.

To relieve Masséna at Genoa, Soult organized several assaults on strong Austrian positions around the city.

There was little chance of Soult resuming hostilities, since Kemmis's 1, 400 strong brigade ( previously stranded on the north bank of the Guadiana ) joined the Allied army on the battlefield at dawn.

From the moment the French were forced to retreat before Beresford, Soult knew that Badajoz was at risk and he was determined that he would not lose the one tangible gain of his winter campaign.

Wellington's orders left Beresford full discretion to fight Soult or to retreat and he was personally inclined to the latter course of action.

Doggedly pursued by the French under Soult, the British made an epic retreat across northern Spain, during which both armies suffered extremely from the harsh, winter conditions.

Instead, when d ' Erlon's cavalry made contact with Soult on the morning of 29 July, the French Marshal decided to move to the north rather than retreat northeast toward Roncesvalles.

The French settled in until August 27, 1812, when they were forced to retreat by Anglo-Spanish counterattacks ; Marshal Soult looted numerous valuable works of art in the interim.

In 1812 the French troops under General Soult burned the town in their retreat from Murcia.