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Also Known As Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count d’Erlon
Born July 29, 1765 • Reims • France
Died January 25, 1844 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Title / Office governor-general (1834-1843), Algeria
Role In Napoleonic Wars
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king of Naples
Clauzel, lithograph by A.-L. Lemercier after a portrait by A. Maurin
Bertrand, Count Clauzel
marshal of France
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
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emperor of France
Charles de Gaulle
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president of France
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king of Sweden and Norway
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
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French general [1762–1806]
Dominique-René Vandamme, count of Unebourg
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Henri, baron de Jomini
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French general and historian
Louis-Nicolas Davout, duc d'Auerstedt
Louis-Nicolas Davout, duke of Auerstedt
French general
Jacques Macdonald, duc de Tarente.
Jacques Macdonald, duke de Tarente
French general
Charles-Denis-Sauter Bourbaki
French general
François-Joseph Lefebvre, duke de Dantzig
French general
Claude Victor-Perrin, duke de Bellune
French general
Armand, marquis de Caulaincourt
French general
Nicolas-Jean de Dieu Soult, duke de Dalmatie
French military leader
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Wagram
marshal of France
Raoul Salan
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Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, duke d’Isly
marshal of France
Duroc, portrait by Jacques-Louis David; in the Musée Léon Bonnat, Bayonne, Fr.
Géraud-Christophe-Michel Duroc, duke de Frioul
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Édouard-Adolphe-Casimir-Joseph Mortier, duke de Trevise
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