Marshal of France, Duke of Taranto
Étienne Macdonald
France 17 November 1765 – 25 September 1840
In 1814: Commander of XI Corps
Macdonald was the son of a Jacobite Scottish exile. In early February he was chased down the Marne by Yorck, and he then came south to Guignes with 12,000 men. In April he was one of the commissioners who negotiated the abdication. Napoleon thanked him for his loyalty with the gift of a sabre he had brought back from Egypt.
On the timeline
Battles
In the writing of the time
- Released from allegiance · Marshal Macdonald
Sources
- Wikidata (dates of birth and death, portrait identifiers)
- F. Loraine Petre, Napoleon at Bay, 1814 (London: John Lane, 1914) · Public domain. The main source for strengths, losses and movements on this site.
- Images: Wikimedia Commons. The licence for each image is checked at build time and linked from its caption.