French Imperial Army (1804–1815)
The French Imperial Army (French: Armée Impériale) was the land force branch of the French imperial military during the Napoleonic era.
| French Imperial Army | |
|---|---|
Emblem of Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| Active | 1804–1814 1815 |
| Country | France |
| Allegiance | Napoleon I |
| Type | Land forces |
| Size | Total of 2,175,335 conscripted between 1805–1813 |
| Part of | (see organisation) |
| Army Headquarters | Ministry of War Building, Paris, Île-de-France |
| Motto(s) | Valeur et Discipline |
| Colors | Le Tricolore |
| March | La Victoire est à nous (from the ballet-opera La caravane du Caire) |
| Engagements | War of the Third Coalition War of the Fourth Coalition Peninsular War War of the Fifth Coalition Russian campaign War of the Sixth Coalition War of the Seventh Coalition |
| Commanders | |
| Supreme Commander | Napoleon I |
| Notable commanders | Pierre Augereau Guillaume Brune Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte Louis-Alexandre Berthier Jean-Baptiste Bessières Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr Louis-Nicolas Davout Emmanuel de Grouchy Jean-Baptiste Jourdan François Christophe de Kellermann François Joseph Lefebvre Jean Lannes Jacques MacDonald Auguste de Marmont André Masséna Édouard Mortier Joachim Murat Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey Michel Ney Nicolas Oudinot Józef Antoni Poniatowski Claude-Victor Perrin Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon Jean-de-Dieu Soult Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier Louis-Gabriel Suchet |
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