"Friendship's Choice"

1774 July 20 - Born at Chatillon-sur-Seine (Cote d'Or)
1792 September 1 - Gazetted lieutenant in 1st Food Artillery
1793 November 12 - Promoted captain during Siege of Toulon
1796 February 8 - Promoted chef de bataillon of artillery and aide-de-camp to Bonaparte
1796 March 27 - Accompanied Bonaparte to Italy; fought at Mondovi, Lodi, Castiglione and Arcola
1797 January 1 - Appointed to command Second Regiment of Horse Artillery; chief aide-de-camp to Bonaparte
1798 May 19 - Accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt; fought at Malta and, as general de brigade, at Alexandria and Pyramids
1799 Novenber 9-10 - Participated in coup of 18 Brumaire; appointed councillor of state (December 25)
1800 June 14 - Commanded artillery at Marengo
1800 September 9 - Promoted general de division
1802 September 16 - Appointed inspector general of artillery; responsible for major reforms
1803 June 14 - Appointed commandant-in-chief of artillery for la Grande Armee
1805 Februray 1-2 - Appointed colonel-general of hussars and chasseurs; created Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honor
1805 August 30 - Appointed to command II Corps of la Grande Armee; present at Ulm
1805 December 23 - Appointed to command I Corps of l'Armee d'Italie
1806 July 7 - Appointed governor-general of Dalmatia by Napoleon; raised Russian Siege of Ragusa
1808 April 15 - Created duc de Raguse
1809 May 17 - Wounded at Gradschatz while commanding XI Corps
1809 July 5-6 - In reserve at Wagram; censured for over-enthusiastic pursuit of defeated Austrians at Znaim (July10)
1809 July 12 - Appointed Marechal d'Empire (twenty-second in order of appointment)
1809 October - Appointed governor of the Illyrian provinces
1811 May 7 - Succeeded Massena as commander of l'Armee de Portugal
1812 June-July - Outmaneuvered Wellington between the Duero and Tormes Rivers
1812 July 22 - Defeated by Wellington at Salamanca; badly wounded
1813 May-October - Fought at Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, and Leipzig as commander of VI Corps
1814 February-March - Fought at La Rothiere, Champaubert, Vauchamps, Laon, La Fere-Champenoise, and Romainville during defense of France
1814 April 5 - Betrayed Napoleon by surrendering his corps
1815 April 10 - Struck from the list of marshals by Napoleon; refused to join the Emporer in the Hundred Days
1830 July - As governor of the 1st Military District at Paris, failed to prevent Revolution; fled into exile 1852 March 3 - Died in Venice

Marmont "The ungrateful fellow - he will be much unhappier than I" (1814)".
"Many others were worse than he, who did not have the sense of shame that he felt... Vanity was his undoing... an excess of folly".

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by Gipsy