"King Nicolas"

1769 March 29 - Born at St. Amans-Labastide (Tarn)
1785 April 16 - Enlisted in Regiment Royal Infanterie
1791 - Promoted sergeant
1792 January 17 - Elected drill instructor, First Battalion, Volontaires du Haut-Rhin
1793 November 19 - Appointed staff captain in the divisions Taponier then Lefebvre
1794 June 26 - Serves at Fleurus
1794 October - Promoted general de brigade and command a brigade in l'Armee de Sambre et Meuse
1796 April 26 - Marries Louise Berg at Solingen
1798 May 19 - Fights at combat of Ostend in Championnet's division
1799 March 21-25 - Serves at Stockach
1799 April 21 - Promoted general de division
1799 June and September - Serves in battles around Zurich under Massena
1800 April 6 to May 13 - Fights around Genoa; wounded and taken prisoner
1801 February 13 - Served under Murat in Italy (until June 1802)
1803 August 28 - Appointed to command St. Omer camp
1804 May 19 - Appointed Marechal d'Empire (eighth in seniority) and colonel general of the Imperial Guard
1805 to 1807 - Commands IV Corps in Austria, Prusia, and Poland
1805 December 2 - Storming the Pratzen Heights at Austerlitz and earning the reputation of being "the best tactician in Europe" from Napoleon
1806 October 14 - Commanded the French right at Jena
1807 February 7-8 - Fight at Battle of Eylau
1807 June - Received the surrender of Konigsberg
1808 June 29 - Created duc de Dalmatie
1808 November 3 to September 16, 1809 - Commands II Corps at Corunna and Oporto
1809 September 16 - "major-general" to King Joseph
1810 June 14 - Commands l'Armee d'Andalousie
1811 May 16 - Fights General Beresford at Battle of Albuera
1813 January 3 to July 1 - Commands Old Guard, then Imperial Guard, ultimately IV Corps in Saxony
1813 July 6 - Commands armies in the Pyrenees (to April 1814)
1814 December 4 - Appointed Bourbon minister of war (until March 1815)
1815 May 9 to June 26 - Appointed "major-general" in l'Armee du Nord
1816 January 12 - Banished from France
1819 May - Return to France
1830 November 17 - Appointed minister of war (until July 1834)
1832 October 11 - Appointed president of Counsil of Ministers (until July 1834)
1839 May 12 - Reappointed president of Counsil of Ministers (until March 1840)
1840 October 29 - Reappointed minister of war (to November 10, 1845) and president of Council of Ministers (until October 1847)
1847 September 26 - Appointed Marechal-General de France
1851 November 26 - Dies at St. Amans-Labastide

Soult "I should have made a great example and had Soult shot; he was the greatest pillager of them all."
Both [Soult and Talleyrand] put money before everything else; they wanted a royal suite and money, always money".

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by Gipsy