"The Patagonian"

1763 May 13 - Born at Brive-la-Gaillarde (Correze)
1789 - Capitaine, Garde Nationale de Paris
1791 July 17 - Took part in Champ-de-Mars demonstrations
1791 August 10-31 - Arrested and imprisoned; released through intervention of Danton
1791 October 18 - Adjutant-major, 2nd Battalion Volontaires de Seine-et-Oise
1792 September 5 - Deputy to adjutants-generaux at the camp at Meaux
1792 September 7 - Appointed commissaire general for movements
1792 October 12 - Adjutant general chef de brigade supernumerary
1793 July 10 - Chief of staff to Sepher in Normandy; commanded advance guard at Pacy-sur-Eure
1793 August 18 - General de brigade while serving in l'Armee du Nord
1793 September 10 - Envoy in the Gironde; commandant at Bordeaux
1793 December 25 - April 2, 1795 - Employed with the Military Committee of the Convetion in Paris
1794 - Married Angelique Pierre
1795 April 13 - October 13 - Posted to 17th Military District; under Barras and Bonaparte during rising of October 5
1796 September 28 - Joined l'Armee d'Italie; given command under Massena; Battles of Arcola, San Michele and Rivoli
1797 April 17 - Temporary rank of general de division; rank confirmed November 7
1797 April 24 - Commanded Massena's, and later 2nd Division
1798 February and March - Cruches Swiss resistance and plunders their national treasure; sent to take over l'Armee d'Italie
1799 January 9 - Commands all French troops in Holland and later Batavian army
1799 October 6 - Battle of Castricum; forces allies to evacuate
1800 August 22 - Succeeds Massena as commander in chief in Italy
1801 June 1 - President of War Department, Council of State
1802 September 11 - Ambasador to Turkey
1804 May 19 - Created Marechal d'Empire (ninth in seniority)
1805 - 1807 - Commanded army forming at Boulogne; governor general of Hanseatic towns; commander of Corps d'Observation of La Grande Armee
1807 October 27 - Recalled in disgrace by Napoleon over treaty with Sweden; unemployed for 7 years
1814 June 1 - Rallies to the Bourbons; made Chevalier de St.Louis
1815 March - Transfer his aliegance to Napoleon
1815 April 16 - Appointed governor of Provence and commander 8th Military District
1815 July 31 - Hands over Toulon to Marquis de Riviere
1815 August 2 - En route to Paris, is assassinated in Avignon and his body thrown into the Rhone

Brune "[He] was justly proclaimed the saviour of the Batavian Republic. The Romans would have awarded him the honour of a Triumph. By saving Holland he also saved France from invasion"

by Gipsy