biography
| name: |
Davout, Louis Nicolas
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pronunciation:
[davoo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1770–1823)
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| biography:
| French soldier, born in Annoux, EC France. He was educated with Napoleon at the military school of Brienne. As general, he accompanied Napoleon to the East, and mainly secured the victory at Aboukir (1799). A marshal of the empire (1804), he fought at Austerlitz (1805), Auerstädt (1806), Eckmühl (1809), Wagram (1809), and in the Russian campaign (1812–13), and was created Duke of Auerstädt (1808) and Prince of Eckmühl (1811). On Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815, he was appointed war minister; and after Waterloo he received the command of the remnant of the French army under the walls of Paris. In 1819 he was made a peer of France. |
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