"His Outspokenness"

1765 November 17 - Born at Sedan
1785 - Lieutenant in Maillebois's regiment
1792 June - Aide-de-camp to Beurnonville
1792 November 6 - Captain at Jemappes
1794 November 15 - Appointed general de division
1795 - Leads attacks across the Waal
1798 July - Commander of Rome
1799 February - Commander of l'Armee de Naples
1799 June 17-19 - Defeated at the Trebbia
1799 November 9 - Helps Napoleon to power on 18 Brumaire
1800 October 5 - Commander of l'Armee des Grisons
1800 December - Leads the crossing of the Splugen Pass
1801 April - Appointed envoy extraordinary to the court of Denmark
1803-1809 - In rural retirement and disgrace at Courcelles-le-Roi
1809 March - Recalled to join Prince Eugene's l'Armee d'Italie
1809 July 5-6 - Leads central attack at Wagram, and is made Marechal d'Empire (twentieth in order of appointment)
1809 August 15 - Created duc de Tarante
1810 April 24 - Commander of l'Armee de Catalogne
1812 September - Commander of X Corps in the Baltic area
1813 May 2 - Corps commander at Lutzen
1813 May 20-21 - Corps commander at Bautzen
1813 August 26 - Beaten by Blucher at the Katzbach
1813 October 18 - Corps commander at Leipzig
1814 - Corps commander in northern France
1814 March - Tells Napoleon at Fontainebleau to cease fighting
1814 April 4 - Appointed to negotiate terms of Napoleon's abdication
1815 March - To Lyons to try, unsuccessfully, to organize resistance to Napoleon
1815 July 2 - Appointed arch-chancellor of the Legion of Honor
1815 July 26 - Commander of l'Armee de la Loire
1840 September 25 - Died at Courcelles-le-Roi

Macdonald "He was a reliable man, good to command between 15000 and 20000 men. Brave, but slow and lazy."
"Macdonald and others like him were good when they knew where they were and under my orders; further away, it was a different matter."
"He was... good and brave, but unlucky".

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by Gipsy