Examples of using "'korps" in a sentence and their english translations:
corps.
Lannes’ Fifth Corps.
He belongs to the diplomatic corps.
army.. he ordered Davout’s Third Corps and Bernadotte’s First Corps to cut off their retreat.
The next year his impeccably-drilled troops became Fourth Corps - the largest corps of
Ney and Third Corps took over.
Third Corps escaped the encirclement.
This time Third Corps could not break through,
Lefebvre’s Bavarian Seventh Corps was crucial
When Bennigsen located Lannes’ apparently-isolated corps
It was a remarkable performance by Third Corps….
Napoleon chose Oudinot to succeed him as commander of Second Corps.
In 1808, Marshal Victor and First Corps
Victor’s Ninth Corps was ordered to form the rearguard.
In Germany in 1813, Victor commanded Second Corps,
leading Seventh Corps against the Prussian southern flank.
The next year, Davout’s troops became Third Corps
His troops had to be rescued by Marshal Lannes’ corps.
His corps commanders, especially Marshal Ney, were scathing of his conduct.
a remarkable escape, but his corps suffered heavy losses.
while the other corps were engaged in ferocious fighting.
Back in command of Fifth Corps, Lannes was as active,
Davout and his corps had emerged from another major campaign
In 1808, Ney commanded a corps during the invasion of Spain.
He commanded Seventh Corps in the 1805 campaign,
The remains of Davout’s corps were ordered to form the rearguard.
He continued to command Eleventh Corps, and was in the thick of the fighting at Leipzig
but led Seventh Corps into battle in terrible winter conditions.
and commanded Fifth Corps at the brutal Siege of Zaragoza.
At the Battle of Laon, he allowed his corps to be surprised by the enemy,
marched his corps over to the Allied lines and surrendered.
His Provisional Corps formed the vanguard for Napoleon’s “Four-Day Campaign” – a series of
With no sign of support from Marshal Bernadotte’s First Corps,
Thirteenth Corps, and – following Napoleon’s defeat at Leipzig - withstood a six-month siege.
Ney’s corps missed the Battle of Austerlitz, but was in action against the Prussians the
The winter manoeuvring culminated in the horrific Battle of Eylau, which Ney’s corps reached
In 1812, he was given command of Tenth Corps for the invasion of Russia.
Ten weeks later he was back with his corps, marching
Since Oudinot’s Second Corps was in better shape than most,
Lannes persuaded Napoleon to let him have Victor as his new chief of staff for Fifth
His corps was in heavy fighting again at Leipzig two months later.
Friedland, with command of First Corps passing to General Victor.
But the next year at Friedland, his corps played an important role
The next day, Lannes’ corps led an attack on the Austrian centre,
The next year at Eylau, Davout’s corps again played a pivotal role,
Davout and Third Corps were able to fight their way clear, and rejoin the army.
Ney’s corps took over as rearguard, but when he became cut off at Krasny,
The next year, he was leading Sixth Corps to war against Austria.
This corps, composed of German troops and reluctant Prussian allies, guarded the left
In 1808 Saint-Cyr was given command of a corps for the invasion of Spain.
His Ninth Corps was held in reserve for most of the campaign,
Then on Marshal Lannes’ recommendation, Napoleon gave him command of Third Corps,
Their decision was vindicated when Sixth Corps won a brilliant action at Elchingen, that
Sixth Corps’ onslaught shattered the Russian left, leading to one of Napoleon’s most
He led his new corps with such success at Wagram six weeks later,
That autumn, his corps attempted to cover the main army’s retreat from Moscow.
inspiring the troops of Tenth Corps by leading one counter-attack in person. After the
He was further frustrated in 1805, when his corps was sent to guard the
hesitant and muddled, and nearly led to Marshal Davout’s corps being encircled.
The following year he took command of Fifth Corps of the Grande Armée,
In the battle that followed, Lannes’ Fifth Corps held the left flank against Bagration’s attacks…
Taking command of Marshal Moncey’s Third Corps, Lannes routed a Spanish
Davout’s masterful handling of his troops enabled Third Corps to repel the Prussian onslaught.
never made it across the river. The Marshal’s role was limited to trying
That December, at Austerlitz, Napoleon entrusted Soult’s corps with the main attack on the
loyal remnants of Macdonald’s corps to fight their way back to Poland.
Because of a riding accident a few days earlier, Masséna had to command his corps from a carriage.
In 1812 he was recalled for the Russia campaign, with command of Sixth Bavarian Corps.
In 1812 Marshal Oudinot led Second Corps into Russia, but was wounded again at Polotsk,
His big break came in 1807, stepping in for the wounded Marshal Bernadotte to command
Mortier and Eighth Corps were in a supporting role for the Jena campaign of 1806.
Davout’s First Corps alone was 72,000 strong, as big as Napoleon’s entire army at Austerlitz.
He’d be needed in Russia, and was recalled in 1812, with command of Third Corps.
Fourth Corps’ attack was the decisive blow of the battle, though its success owed much
In 1808, Soult was ennobled as the Duke of Dalmatia, and later that year, led a corps
In 1807 he commanded Fifth Corps in Poland, but his role covering Warsaw meant he missed
On the eve of the Battle of Austerlitz, Davout force-marched his corps 70 miles in 2 days,
He later gave Third Corps the honour of being the first troops to enter Berlin.
In the bloody battle that followed, Davout’s corps led the frontal attack on the Fléches earthworks.
of his corps at the height of the battle, covered by Marshal Bessiéres cavalry charge.
That year, Napoleon made Bernadotte a Marshal, and he commanded First Corps at the Battle of
Ordered to advance, his corps lost its way in a blizzard, was mown down by Russian guns, charged
In 1809, with war looming with Austria, Davout rejoined Third Corps at Regensburg.
Amid the slaughter of Borodino, Ney led his corps in attack after attack on the Russian
The next year, Soult’s corps played an important role at the Battle of Jena, and in the pursuit
Saint-Cyr returned to the Grande Armée in August, taking command of Fourteenth Corps
Moved by this response, Napoleon relented and gave Victor command of a corps of Young Guard.
When war resumed with Austria in 1809, Bernadotte was given command of the Ninth Saxon Corps.
Following Napoleon’s victory over the Austrians at Ulm in 1805, Mortier and his new Eighth Corps
When war broke out with Austria again in 1809, Marmont marched north with Eleventh Corps to join
Each corps, commanded by a Marshal, was a mini-army of 15 to 30 thousand soldiers, with
Mortier led the Young Guard in Russia in 1812, but was powerless to prevent the corps’
That summer, Bennigsen’s Russian army launched a surprise attack, hoping to encircle and
The war against Austria in 1809 saw Masséna back near his best: his corps formed the vanguard
given command of the newly-formed Tenth Corps. But within weeks he was captured by a Prussian patrol,
as Napoleon battled to save his empire. He commanded Sixth Corps throughout the campaign in Germany,
Near Vyazma a gap opened up, and Russian General Miloradovich pounced – First Corps was routed,