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