Marshal of France, Duke of Belluno
Claude-Victor Perrin
France 7 December 1764 – 1 March 1841
In 1814: Commander of II Corps
Victor was left on the Seine to hold off Schwarzenberg while Napoleon struck at Blücher. Napoleon blamed him for failing to seize the bridges at Montereau on 17 February and gave his corps to Gérard. Victor was wounded at Craonne in March.
On the timeline
Battles
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.