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November 1765 in Sedan, Champagne; † 25. September 1840 in Beaulieu-sur-Loire, Département Loiret) war ein französischer Offizier in der Zeit der Revolutionskriege, der durch Napoleon zum Duc de Tarente (Herzog von Tarent) erhoben und zum Maréchal d’Empire ernannt wurde.
Jacques Macdonald, duke de Tarente was a French general who was appointed marshal of the empire by Napoleon. The son of a Scottish adherent of the exiled British Stuart dynasty, who had served in a Scots regiment in France, he joined the French army and was a colonel when the wars of the French.
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ZEIGE ALLE FRAGEN. Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre MacDonald (* 17. November 1765 in Sedan, Champagne; † 25. September 1840 in Beaulieu-sur-Loire, Département Loiret) war ein französischer Offizier in der Zeit der Revolutionskriege, der durch Napoleon zum Duc de Tarente (Herzog von Tarent) erhoben und zum Maréchal d’Empire ernannt wurde.
1765-1840. Of Scottish descent, Jacques Macdonald was the only marshal to win his baton on the battlefield. He did so after destroying the Austrian centre at Wagram, but was fortunate to have been given the opportunity - having offended Napoleon Bonaparte with his vocal defence of the branded-traitor Jean Moreau.
The Battle of Bar-sur-Aube was fought on 27 February 1814, between the First French Empire and the Austrian Empire. French forces were led by Jacques MacDonald, while the Austrians and their Bavarian allies, forming the Army of Bohemia, were led by Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg. The Austrians were victorious.
Etienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duke of Tarentum | Museum number 2006,U.1884 |
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre MacDonald, 1st duke of Taranto (17 November 1765 – 7 September 1840) was a Marshal of France and military leader during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. [1] Contents. 1 Family background. 2 Military life. 3 Under Napoleon. 4 Under the Bourbons. 5 Personal life. 6 Scottish legacy. 7 Summation. 8 Notes.
