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in Portugal. Before Bussaco, Reynier and other generals urged Masséna to order the assault which turned out to be unsuccessful. His corps was not seriously engaged at the
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family, the son of Jacques François Reynier, a physician, and Caroline Chapuis. Through his father he was descended from French
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he defended against the British counter-invasion of Egypt in 1801. His division was present but not engaged in the
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to descendants of French individuals who had fled the country due to religious persecution under the
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Leading the Saxon corps plus an attached French division, Reynier fought at the battles of Kalish,
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Reynier joined the French Army as a gunner in 1792 and was drafted in October into the
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in 1809, Reynier commanded 129 artillery pieces and 8,475 soldiers on the Island of
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On his return to duty in 1803, Reynier went to fight in Italy with the army of
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and the following Egyptian campaign in 1798, commanding a division at the
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Reynier during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria. Sketch portrait by
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on 9 March 1806. This victory helped Napoleon to install his brother
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His name is inscribed in column 24 on the southern pillar of the
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and served under King Joseph as his Minister of War and Marine.
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in 1807. On 24 November 1805, his 2nd Division helped capture
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of 1812, Reynier led the VII Corps which was composed of
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in 1810, he commanded the II Corps under Masséna at the
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in Paris. He was granted French citizenship through the
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Engraved portrait of Reynier (1800), after a drawing by
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troops. Together with an allied Austrian force under
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Jean Louis Ebénézer Reynier
Count of the Empire

Jean-Urbain Guérin
Lausanne
Switzerland
Paris
France
Panthéon
French First Republic
First French Empire
Army
General of Division
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
LĂ©gion d'honneur
Order of the Reunion
Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies
Military Order of St. Henry
[ʒɑ̃lwiebenezeʁɛnje]
Swiss
French
French Army
First Republic
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general
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleon Bonaparte
French campaign in Egypt and Syria
Napoleonic Wars

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