"Serjent Belle-Jambe"

1763 January 26 - Born at Pau (Gascony)
1780 September 3 - Enlisted in the Royal Maritime Regiment
1782 May 20 - Joined grenadier company
1790 February 7 - Promoted to regimental sergeant major
1791 November 6 - Commissioned as lieutenant
1792 November 30 - Appointed regimental adjutant
1794 February 13 - Promoted to major
1794 April 4 - Appinted to command 71st Demi-Brigade, l'Armee du Nord
1794 June 26 - Serves at Fleurus; promoted general de brigade
1794 October 22 - Promoted general de division
1797 January 4 - Joins l'Armee d'Italie
1798 February - Ambasador at Vienna (until April)
1798 August 17 - Marries Desiree Clary
1799 July 3 - Appointed minister of war (until September 14)
1800 April - Appointed commander in chief, l'Armee de l'Ouest
1804 May - Appointed governor of Hanover (until August 1805)
1804 May 19 - Appointed Marechal d'Empire (seventh in seniority)
1805 December 2 - Commands I Corps at Austerlitz
1806 June 5 - Created Prince de Porte-Corvo
1806 October - Commands I Corps during the Campaign of Prussia (to November)
1807 January - CommandsI Corps in East Prussia (to June); wounded at Spanden
1807 July - Appointed governor of the Hanseatic towns (until March 1809)
1809 March - Commands I Corps in the war against Austria
1809 July 5 and 8 - Commands I Corps at Wagram; resign and return to Paris
1809 August 12 - Appointed commander in chief, l'Armee d'Antverp
1810 August 21 - Elected crown prince of Sweden
1813 June - Command allied l'Armee du Nord against France (until July 1814)
1813 August 23 - Defeats Oudinot at Gross Beeren
1813 September 6 - Defeats Ney at Dennewitz
1813 October 16-18 - Participates in the Battle of the Nations (Leipzig)
1814 May-June - Commands Swedish army in occupation of Norway
1818 February 5 - Succeeds to the thrones of Sweden and Norway - King Carl XIV
1844 March 8 - Dies at Stockholm

Bernadotte "I can only say that Bernadotte let me down. He had become a sort of Swede, but never promised or declared an intention to stay true. I can therefore accuse him of ingratitude, but not of treason."

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by Gipsy