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Grande Armée


00:03:05 1 History
00:03:25 1.1 1804–1806
00:05:44 1.2 1807–1809
00:08:40 1.3 1810–1812
00:11:27 1.4 1813–15
00:14:56 2 Staff system
00:16:13 2.1 Napoleon's Military Household
00:19:21 2.2 Army General Headquarters
00:21:43 3 Organization
00:24:05 4 Forces of the Grande Armée
00:24:15 4.1 Imperial Guard
00:24:57 4.1.1 Infantry of the Guard
00:32:33 4.1.2 Cavalry of the Guard
00:42:20 4.2 Infantry
00:42:47 4.2.1 Line Infantry
00:44:36 4.2.1.1 Grenadiers
00:46:11 4.2.1.2 Voltigeurs of the Line
00:47:52 4.2.1.3 Fusiliers
00:49:50 4.2.2 Light Infantry
00:51:08 4.2.2.1 Carabiniers-à-Pied
00:51:58 4.2.2.2 Light Voltigeurs
00:52:41 4.2.2.3 Chasseurs
00:54:15 4.3 Cavalry
00:55:17 4.3.1 Heavy cavalry
00:55:26 4.3.1.1 Carabiniers-à-Cheval (Horse Carabiners)
00:56:38 4.3.1.2 Cuirassiers
00:58:20 4.3.1.3 Dragoons (iDragons/i)
00:59:23 4.3.2 Light cavalry
00:59:32 4.3.2.1 Hussars (iHussards/i)
01:00:33 4.3.2.2 Chasseurs-à-Cheval (Mounted Hunters)
01:01:16 4.3.2.3 Lanciers (Lancers)
01:02:44 4.4 Artillery
01:04:23 4.4.1 Foot artillery
01:05:41 4.4.2 Horse artillery
01:07:27 4.4.3 Ammunition
01:10:49 4.4.4 Artillery train
01:13:12 4.5 Marines of the Guard
01:16:35 4.6 Foreign troops in the Grande Armée
01:18:14 5 Support services
01:18:23 5.1 Engineers
01:20:33 5.2 Logistics
01:22:58 5.3 Medical Staff
01:28:48 5.4 Communications
01:30:59 6 Formations and tactics
01:38:38 7 Ranks of the Grande Armée
01:40:16 8 See also



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The Grande Armée (French pronunciation: ​[ɡʀɑ̃d aʀme]; French for Great Army) was the army commanded by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars. From 1805 to 1809, the Grande Armée scored a series of historic victories that gave the French Empire an unprecedented grip on power over the European continent. Widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest fighting forces ever assembled, it suffered terrible losses during the French invasion of Russia in 1812 and never recovered its tactical superiority after that campaign.
It was renamed in 1805 from the army that Napoleon had assembled on the French coast of the English Channel for the proposed invasion of Britain. Napoleon later deployed the army east in order to eliminate the threat of Austria and Russia, which were part of the Third Coalition assembled against France. Thereafter, the name was used for the principal French army deployed in the Campaigns of 1805 and 1807, where it got its prestige, and 1809, 1812, and 1813–14. In practice, however, the term, Grande Armée, is used in English to refer to all of the multinational forces gathered by Napoleon I in his campaigns of the early 19th century (see Napoleonic Wars).The first Grande Armée consisted of six corps under the command of Napoleon's marshals and senior generals. When Napoleon discovered that Russian and Austrian armies were preparing to invade France in late 1805, the Grande Armée was quickly ordered across the Rhine into Southern Germany, leading to Napoleon's victories at Ulm, Austerlitz and Jena.
The army grew as Napoleon spread his power across Europe. It reached its largest size of 1,000,000 men at the start of the invasion of Russia in 1812, with 680,000 men participating in the Russian campaign. The contingents were commanded by French generals, except for the Polish corps and an Austrian one. The huge multinational army marched slowly east, and the Russians fell back with its approach. After the capture of Smolensk and victory in the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon and a part of the Grande Armée reached Moscow on 14 September 1812. However, the army was already drastically reduced because of deaths and injuries from battles with the Russians, disease (principally typhus), desertion, and long communication lines. The army spent a month in Moscow but was ultimately forced to march back westward. It started to suffer from cold, starvation and disease, and was constantly harassed by Cossacks and Russian irregulars, so that ...