Marshal of France, Duke of Treviso
Édouard Mortier
France 13 February 1768 – 28 July 1835
In 1814: Commander of Old Guard divisions
Mortier was a tall, steady soldier who commanded divisions of the Old Guard. In February he masked the Emperor’s march north and then pursued Yorck and Sacken over the Marne. With Marmont, he fought the last battle for Paris.
On the timeline
Battles
In the writing of the time
- Authorisation to negotiate · Joseph Bonaparte
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.