Davout
Americannoun
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Headed by their mayor, the citizens came out and welcomed Napoleon's Marshal Davout with open arms; the local press lavished praise on the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
If they had kept directly onward they might have still wedged themselves between Davout and Lefebvre.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
Davout directed the gallant, but hopeless, defence of Paris after Waterloo, and was deprived of his marshalate and his titles at the second restoration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
This temporizing was brought to a sudden end in January, 1812, when Davout occupied Swedish Pomerania.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
The numbers engaged in the first stage of the battle may be taken as—Napoleon, 50,000, Bennigsen, 67,000, to which later were added on the one side Ney and Davout, 29,000, on the other Lestocq, 7000.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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