Jean Gabriel Marchand

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Jean Gabriel Marchand, 1st Count Marchand went from being an attorney to a company commander in the army of the First French Republic in 1791. He fought almost exclusively in Italy throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and served on the staffs of a number of generals. He participated in Napoleon Bonaparte's celebrated Italian campaign of 1796–1797. In 1799, he was with army commander Barthélemy Catherine Joubert when that general was killed at Novi. Promoted to general officer soon after, he transferred to the Rhine theater in 1800.

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Battles (4)

• 1806

  Battle of Czarnowo

  War of the Fourth Coalition · French Empire

• 1809

  Battle of Tamames

  Peninsular War · French Empire

• 1811

  Battle of Casal Novo

  Peninsular War · France

• 1814

  Battle of Saint-Julien

  War of the Sixth Coalition · France