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Jean-Baptiste Louis Andrault, marquis de Maulévrier (3 November 1677 – 20 March 1754) was a French militarist and diplomat.
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Jean-Baptiste Louis Andrault, marquis de Maulévrier (3 November 1677 – 20 March 1754) was a French militarist and diplomat.
He served as aide de camp of Marshal Nicolas Catinat in Italy.
He became brigadier in 1704, lieutenant general in 1720 and Marshal of France in 1745.
He was also ambassador extraordinaire for the French King at the Spanish court in 1720, where he received the Order of the Golden Fleece. He was a commander of the Order of Saint Louis.
His son, Charles Claude Andrault de Langeron (1720–1792), also became a lieutenant general in the King's Army.
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Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia was a French general and statesman. He was a Marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, and served three times as President of the Council of Ministers of France.
Marshal of France is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements. The title has been awarded since 1185, though briefly abolished (1793–1804) and for a period dormant (1870–1916). It was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration, and one of the Grand Dignitaries of the Empire during the First French Empire.
Jean-Baptiste Bessières, 1st Duke of Istria, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. His younger brother, Bertrand, followed in his footsteps and eventually became a divisional general. Their cousin, Julien Bessières, also served Emperor Napoleon I as a diplomat and imperial official.
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot, known as Marcellin Marbot, was a French general, famous for his memoirs depicting the Napoleonic age of warfare. He belongs to a family that has distinguished itself particularly in the career of arms, giving three generals to France in less than 50 years. His elder brother, Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot, was also a military man of some note.
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Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was a French nobleman and general whose army played a critical role in helping the United States defeat the British Army at Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. He was commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force sent by France to help the American Continental Army fight against British forces.
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Events from the year 1775 in France.
Charles Juste de Beauvau, Prince of Craon, 2nd Prince of Craon (1754), Marshal of France (1783) was a French scholar, nobleman and general. The son of Marc de Beauvau, he was also brother of the famous Madame de Boufflers and through her uncle to the poet Stanislas de Boufflers.
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Noël Jourda de Vaux, comte de Vaux, seigneur d'Artiac was a French nobleman and General. He oversaw the conquest of the Corsican Republic in 1769. He was given command of land forces in the planned Franco-Spanish Invasion of Britain in 1779, but this was abandoned. He became a Marshal of France in 1783. He was the son of Jean Baptiste Jourda de Vaux, seigneur de Retournac and Marie Anne de Saint-Germain.
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Yves d'Alègre. He was the fifth head of the Alègre family, and marquis of Tourzel as well as seigneur of Montaigu, of Saint-Flour-le-Châtel, of Aurouze and of Aubusson and count of Flaugeac.
Joseph Joubert Charles La Bastide, knight and marquis of Chateaumorand, was a naval officer and colonial administrator French in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was a governor of Saint-Domingue between January 11, 1717, and July 10, 1719, and Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies. He was a Knight of St. Louis, and Knight of the Royal Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem.
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