"The Father of The Grenadiers"

1767 April 25 - Born ar Bar-le-Duc (Meuse)
1784-1787 - Private in Medoc Regiment at Perpignan
1789 July 14 - Captain of a company of regular cavalry
1790 November 7 - Chef de legion of Garde Nationale de la Meuse
1791 September 6 - Lieutenant-colonel en seconde of Third Battalion of Meuse Volonteers
1795 June 13 - Confirmed in rank of general de brigade
1795-1796 - Wounded and taken prisoner at Neckerau; exchanged
1796 September - Wounded storming Ingolstadt bridge
1798 March 7 - Victory at Feldkirch, followed by two setbacks
1799 April - General de division
1799 July - Replaces Suchet as Massena's chief of staff
1799-1800 - At Siege of Genoa
1800 - Chief of staff to Brune; fights well at Monzembano
1801 December 18 - Inspector general of the cavalry
1803 August 30 - Command of 1st Infantry Division at Bruges
1805 February 5 - Takes command of Grenadier Reserve Corps at Arras
1805 August 29 - Takes command of 1st Division (grenadiers reunis) of V Corps
1805 October 8 - Victorious at Wertingen
1807 February 16 - Victorious against Russians at Ostrolenka
1807 May - At Siege of Danzig
1807 June 14 - Important role at Battle of Friedland
1807 July 12 - Succeds Lannes in command of Soult's reserve
1808 July 2 - Made comte d'Empire
1809 April 19 - Victorious at Pfaffenhofen under Massena
1809 May - Wounded at Essling; succeds to II Corps; disobeys orders at Wagram and cecures victory
1809 July 13 - Appointed Marechal d'Empire (twenty-second in order of appointment)
1810 April 14 - Created duc de Reggio
1812 January 15 - Commands II Corps, on the Elbe
1812 June-July - Victorious at Wilkomir; is repulsed at Jakowo
1812 August - Victorious at Oboiartsina; badly wounded at Battle of Polotosk; hands over II Corps to St.-Cyr
1812 November 28 - Badly wounded at Berezina
1813 April-May - Commands XII Corps and extreme right at Bautzen
1813 August 23 - Defeated by Bernadotte at Gross-Beeren
1814 February-March - Commands VII Corps in Champagne
1814 April-June - Government commissioner for armistice; made Chevalier of St.Louis and peer of France
1815 March 24 - Fails to save Metz for Louis XVIII; retires
1815 September-October - Major general of Royal Guard; memeber of Privy Council; commander in chief of Paris National Guard
1823 - Led the I Corps into Spain; governor of Madrid
1830 August 11 - Suspended after dissolution of the Royal Guard
1839 May 17 - Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor
1842 October 21 - Governor of Les Invalides
1847 September 13 - Dies

Oudinot "He was a brave man, but none too bright. He let himself be dominated by his young wife of good family." "I should not have made either Marmont or Oudinot marshals. We needed to win a war".

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by Gipsy