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#OnThisDay 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, fought his last battle at Waterloo. Find out how the action unfolded in our video: https://t.co/MYoaJX6VxO

Le Chevalier de Bayard (c.1476-1524) was a French knight famed for his honour, courtesy, courage & skill. His deeds during the Italian Wars made him a legend in France, where it was the fate of all subsequent military heroes to be compared to him (including at least 3 Marshals!)

The Siege of Girona (1809) by Dumont. Not as well known as the more famous siege at Zaragoza, Girona was another example of stubborn & courageous Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s invasion. The city fell after an epic 7-month siege, with the garrison ravaged by disease & hunger.

Dumas became France’s first black general in 1793. This period of the Rev Wars was marked by political extremism & atrocities. Yet Dumas won a reputation as a humane commander: he once took down & burnt a guillotine, claiming his men were short of firewood. #BlackHistoryMonth 1/5

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was France’s first black general & one of the best cavalry commanders of the French Revolutionary Wars. Born in the French colony of St-Domingue (modern Haiti) in 1762, his father was a white French nobleman, his mother a black slave. #BlackHistoryMonth 1/4

Marshal Ney commanding the French rearguard at Kovno, on the Russian-Polish border, December 1812. Six months after the start of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the remnants of his army were back where they’d started, having suffered an estimated 500,000 casualties.

Marshal Prince Józef Poniatowski. Somber, serious and brave, Poniatowski proved a skilled commander of Duchy of Warsaw forces in Napoleon’s campaigns. Napoleon made him a Marshal on the eve of the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, a battle he did not survive.

The Battle of Leipzig in 1813 saw an early battlefield use of rocket artillery: British Congreve rockets were wildly inaccurate but could inflict heavy damage at close range, & terrify men & horses. Our latest Napoleon video here: https://t.co/gik4buqHrz

Probably David’s most famous work is ‘Napoleon Crossing the Alps’ (1801). It idealises Napoleon’s advance into Italy in 1800, his name inscribed in stone alongside other great generals who’d taken this route - Hannibal and Karolus Magnus (Charlemagne). #ArtistOfTheWeek (4/5)

#OnThisDay 1808 Marshal Lannes won a crushing victory over a Spanish force at the Battle of Tudela. Though outnumbered, his bold attack sent the Spanish fleeing in two directions. The French saw victory as revenge for their earlier humiliating defeat at the Battle of Bailén.