Jacques MacDonald
Marshal of France (1765-1840)
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FranceThe son of an exiled Scottish Jacobite who became one of Napoleon's marshals — raised to that rank on the battlefield at Wagram in 1809, then titled Duke of Taranto. Often counted among the Emperor's less capable field commanders, but his career survived revolution, empire, defeat, and restoration.
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Born in Sedan in 1765, Macdonald was serving in the Irish Brigade when the revolution broke. He threw in with the cause and climbed fast: brigade general by 1793 after Jemappes, divisional general a year later. He commanded French forces in Rome after the republic was declared there in 1798, helped conquer Naples in 1799, then took a crushing defeat at the Trebbia against Suvorov's Austro-Russian army. He backed Napoleon's 1799 coup but his ties to Moreau cost him — forced into semi-retirement for years. Napoleon pulled him back in 1809; at Wagram he fought well enough to be made marshal on th…
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