Examples of using "Lannes" in a sentence and their english translations:
2. Marshal Lannes
Lannes’ Fifth Corps.
Napoleon, who’d visited Lannes every day,
Lannes was carried to the rear, and placed in the
Then he wrote to Lannes’ wife:
Jean Lannes was a farmer’s son from Gascony,
where Lannes proved a brave and active officer.
In 1800 Lannes remarried to Louise-Antoinette Guéheneuc,
Lannes, badly shaken, walked off to sit alone for a moment,
But that night, a long-running feud with Marshal Lannes nearly came to blows, when Lannes accused
When Bennigsen located Lannes’ apparently-isolated corps
Even Lannes was left shaken by the savagery of the fighting,
When Marshal Lannes died of his wounds,
Lannes had to work closely with Marshal Murat,
Back in command of Fifth Corps, Lannes was as active,
That spring, Lannes resumed command of the advance guard,
Napoleon recalled Lannes for the war with Austria in 1809.
His troops had to be rescued by Marshal Lannes’ corps.
The matter went no further, as Lannes was fatally wounded the next day.
Napoleon summoned Lannes to rejoin the army for the war with Prussia.
Masséna held the village of Aspern, while Lannes organised the defence of Essling.
The day before the Battle of Austerlitz, Lannes’ quick temper got the better of him:
The following year Lannes was ennobled as Duke of Montebello, and joined
Marshals Lannes and Masséna led the way across improvised bridges,
Lannes’ old rival Marshal Bessières was placed under his temporary command.
The next day, Lannes’ corps led an attack on the Austrian centre,
Marshal Lannes’ death was a great blow to Napoleon and the army.
Lannes was promoted to brigadier general, and in 1798 joined Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt.
At the Battle of Aboukir, Lannes’ infantry worked with Murat’s cavalry
Lannes never forgot a favour – he and Victor remained firm friends.
After the battle, Lannes was infuriated that Soult, and not he, was singled out
Four days later at Jena, Lannes opened the main French attack at dawn,
Taking command of Marshal Moncey’s Third Corps, Lannes routed a Spanish
occupying the village of Aspern on his left, and Lannes, holding Essling on the right.
Lannes persuaded Napoleon to let him have Victor as his new chief of staff for Fifth
While two French corps under Marshal Lannes began a second, bloody siege of Zaragoza,
Napoleon later presented the flag he’d waved at the battle to Lannes,
by persuading him that an armistice had been signed. At one point Lannes even
But Lannes, with support from future Marshals Oudinot and Grouchy, expertly used his troops
Lannes sent repeated orders for him to charge the enemy, in language that
The operation went well. But the wound became infected, and Lannes died nine days later.
Then on Marshal Lannes’ recommendation, Napoleon gave him command of Third Corps,
Corps. Napoleon agreed, and in October, Victor served as Lannes’ deputy at the Battle of Jena.
Lannes’ delaying tactics allowed Napoleon to catch the Russian army with its back to the river,
Three weeks later, Murat and Marshal Lannes, who normally couldn’t stand each other,
himself, who rewarded Lannes with command of a grenadier brigade in the army’s advance guard.
When Napoleon staged his coup of 18 Brumaire, Lannes helped to ensure the army’s loyalty.
and at Montebello, encountered an Austrian force that outnumbered it two to one. Lannes
In semi-disgrace, Lannes was sent as ambassador to Portugal: a short, eventful spell in which,
By 1804 it was clear that all was forgiven - Lannes received news that he’d been made
Lannes attacked a larger Russian force at Pułtusk, but it was a bloody, indecisive affair.
Napoleon next needed Regensburg taken quickly, and so as usual, he turned to Lannes.
The next spring, Napoleon’s army marched over the Alps into Italy. Lannes’ vanguard led the way,
for praise by the Emperor. Within days, Lannes had resigned his command and returned to France.
After the first assault wave was mown down, Lannes’ call for volunteers went unanswered.
A month later at Friedland, Oudinot and his grenadiers were under Marshal Lannes’ command, and
Victor and Marshal Lannes were close friends from their days serving together in Italy. In 1806,
A month later at the Battle of Lodi, Colonel Lannes was first across the river,
While recovering from his latest wounds in this battle, Lannes received painful news from home:
General Bessières helped expose his mismanagement of the budget… for which Lannes never forgave him.
Spanish soldiers and civilians defended the city with legendary courage, but Lannes’ leadership
Lannes was then transferred to Italy as part of General Augereau’s division, where his bold,
In the battle that followed, Lannes’ Fifth Corps held the left flank against Bagration’s attacks…
Around 4pm Lannes’ old friend General Pouzet was hit by a cannonball and killed in front of him.