Louis-Nicolas Davout
Marshal of France (1770–1823)
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Lived 1770–1823, aged 53France
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Napoleon had plenty of marshals, but only one earned the nickname "The Iron Marshal" — and only one beat a Prussian army twice his size without the Emperor anywhere near the field.
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Born into minor Burgundian nobility in 1770, Davout passed through the École Militaire and joined a cavalry regiment just in time for the ancien régime to collapse. He threw in with the Revolution, proved himself at Neerwinden, and climbed fast — Rhine campaign, Egypt, divisional general by 1800. Napoleon made him one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire in 1804. Leading III Corps, he helped win Austerlitz, then pulled off Auerstedt: vastly outnumbered, he routed the Duke of Brunswick's Prussian force while Napoleon fought elsewhere. Eckmühl, Eylau, Wagram followed. He governed the…
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