Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand (March 28, 1773 - January 31, 1844), French general, was born at Châteauroux as a member of a well to do bourgeois family. March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in leap years). ... 1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Châteauroux is a commune of central France, préfecture (capital) of the Indre département. ... Bourgeois at the end of the thirteenth century. ...

At the outbreak of the French Revolution, he had just finished his studies, and he entered the army as a volunteer. During the expedition to Egypt, Napoleon named him colonel (1798), then brigadier-general, and after the Battle of Austerlitz his aide-de-camp. His life was henceforth closely bound up with that of Napoleon, who had the fullest confidence in him, honoring him in 1808 with the title of count and in 1813 upon the death of Geraud Duroc with the title of grand marshal of the court. It was Bertrand who in 1809 directed the building of the bridges by which the French army crossed the Danube at Wagram. In 1811, Bertrand was appointed governor for Illyria and during the German campaign of 1813, he commanded IV Corps which he led in the battles of Grossbeeren, Dennewitz and Leipzig. Liberty Leading the People, a painting by Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 but which has come to be generally accepted as symbolic of French popular uprisings against the monarchy in general and the French Revolution in particular. ... Napoleon I of France, by Jacques-Louis David. ... 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Combatants First French Empire Russia, Austrian Empire Commanders Napoleon I Alexander I Strength 67,000 73,000 Casualties 1,305 dead, 6,940 wounded, 573 captured (about 9,000 total), and 1 standard lost 15,000 dead or wounded, 12,000 captured (about 27,000 total); 180 guns and 50... An aide-de-camp (French: camp assistant) is a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or a head of state. ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Geraud Christophe Michel Duroc, duc de Frioul (October 25, 1772 - May 23, 1813) was a French general. ... 1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Danube bend at Visegrád is a popular destination of tourists The Danube (ancient Danuvius) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... The Battle of Wagram, around the isle of Lobau on the Danube and on the plain of the Marchfeld around the village of Wagram 15 km north east of Vienna, Austria, took place on July 5 and 6, 1809 and resulted in the decisive victory of French forces under Napoleon... Joyce Rollins is a lesbian. ... Grossbeeren is a village in Germany, 13 miles (21 km) south of Berlin where, on August 23, 1813, the allies defeated the French in their advance on Berlin. ... Dennewitz is a village of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, near Jüterbog, 40 m. ... Combatants France, Poland, Saxony and other states of Confederation of the Rhine Russia, Austrian Empire, Prussia, Sweden Commanders Napoleon I of France, prince Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony Karl von Schwarzenberg Gebhard von Blucher Crown Prince Charles of Sweden Strength 191,000 330,000 Casualties 38,000...

In 1813, after the Battle of Leipzig, it was due to his initiative that the French army was not totally destroyed. He accompanied Napoleon to Elba in 1814, returned with him in 1815, held a command in the Waterloo campaign, and then, after the defeat, accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena. Condemned to death in 1816, he did not return to France until after Napoleon's death, and then Louis XVIII granted him amnesty allowing him to retain his rank. Bertrand was elected deputy in 1830 but defeated in 1834. In 1840 he was chosen to accompany the prince de Joinville to St. Helena to retrieve and bring Napoleon's remains to France. He died at Châteauroux on the 31st of January 1844 and was burried in the Les Invalides. His touching fidelity has made his name very popular in France. Combatants France, Poland, Saxony and other states of Confederation of the Rhine Russia, Austrian Empire, Prussia, Sweden Commanders Napoleon I of France, prince Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony Karl von Schwarzenberg Gebhard von Blucher Crown Prince Charles of Sweden Strength 191,000 330,000 Casualties 38,000... Elba (top center) from space, February 1994 Elba and the Tuscan Archipelago. ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Combatants France Anglo-Allied/Prussian/ Dutch Commanders Napoléon Bonaparte (Ney in control of battle) Duke of Wellington Gebhard von Blücher Strength 72,000 67,000 Anglo-Dutch 60,000 Prussian (48,000 engaged by about 18:00) Casualties 25,000 22,000 Map of the Waterloo campaign The... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France and Navarre from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824, with a brief break in 1815 due to Napoleons return in the Hundred Days. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie dOrléans, prince de Joinville (14 August 1818 - 16 June 1900) was the third son of Louis Philippe, duc dOrléans, afterwards king of the French and his wife Marie Amalie of Bourbon-Sicilies. ... The church at the Invalides, with its dome Les Invalides in Paris, France consists of a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to Frances military history, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the buildings original...

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.