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See also:MARBOT, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:ANTOINE MARCELIN, See also:BARON DE (1782-18J4) , See also:French soldier, son of See also:General Jean Antoine de Marbot (1954-1800), who died in the See also:defence of See also:Genoa under See also:Massena, was See also:born at La See also:Riviere (See also:Correze), on the 18th of See also:August 1782. He joined the republican See also:army as a volunteer in 1799, See also:rose rapidly to commissioned See also:rank, and was aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Marshal See also:Augereau, commanding the VII. See also:corps, in the See also:war against See also:Prussia and See also:Russia in 1806-7. After this he served with See also:great distinction in the See also:Peninsular War under See also:Lannes and Massena, and showed himself to be a dashing See also:leader of See also:light See also:cavalry in the See also:Russian War of 1812 and the See also:German See also:campaign of the following See also:year. After a slow recovery from the wounds he had received at See also:Leipzig and See also:Hanau, he was promoted general of See also:brigade by See also:Napoleon during the See also:Hundred Days, and took See also:part in, and was wounded at, the See also:battle of See also:Waterloo. He was exiled at the second restoration and only returned to See also:France in 1819, after which, however, his intimacy with the See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans secured him important military positions. After the See also:July restoration he was made marechal-de-camp, and in this rank he was See also:present at the See also:siege of See also:Antwerp in 1832. He was promoted See also:lieutenant-general in 1836. From 1835 to 184o he served in various Algerian expeditions, and in 1845 he was made a member of the Chamber of Peers. Three years later, at the fall of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe, he retired into private See also:life. He died at See also:Paris on the 16th of See also:November 1854. Marbot wrote two See also:pamphlets, Remarques critiques sur l'ouvrage de M. le general Roguet, intitule Considerations sur l'See also:art de la guerre (182o), and La Necessite d'augmenter See also:les forces militaires de la France (1825), but his fame rests chiefly, if not indeed wholly, on the fascinating See also:Memoirs of his Life and See also:Campaigns which were published in Paris in 1891 (Eng. trans., 1902). To See also:ordinary readers and to students of See also:history alike these give a picture of the See also:Napoleonic See also:age of warfare which for vividness and romantic See also:interest has never been surpassed.
His See also:elder See also:brother, ANTOINE ADOLPHE MARCELIN DE MARBOT (1781-1844), was born at La Riviere, on the 22nd of See also:March 1781, entered the army at an See also:early age, obtained commissioned rank in the revolutionary See also:wars and became aide-de-camp to Bernadotte. In 1802 he was arrested on the ground of being concerned in a See also:plot of the Republicans against the Consulate, but he was released, though Napoleon continued to regard him as an opponent of the established regime. After a See also:term of See also:duty with the army in Santo Domingo he participated in the campaigns of 1806-7, and from 1808 to 1811 he was employed in the Peninsular War. In the Russian War of 1812 he was wounded and made prisoner. At the end of two years of captivity he returned to France at the general See also:peace, was aide-de-camp to Marshal See also:Davout during the Hundred Days, and thereafter passed into retirement, from which he did not emerge till 183o. He attainedthe rank of marechal-de-camp under Louis Philippe, and died at Bra, near See also:Tulle, on the 2nd of See also:June 1844.
End of Article: MARBOT, JEAN BAPTISTE ANTOINE MARCELIN, BARON DE (1782-18J4)
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