Charles Pierre Francois Augereau, 1st Duke of Castiglione was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
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20 Facts About Pierre Augereau
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Pierre Augereau fought in all of Bonaparte's battles of 1796 with great distinction.
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Pierre Augereau's life ended under a cloud because of his poor timing in switching sides between Napoleon and King Louis XVIII of France.
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Pierre Augereau is generally counted as one of the most capable generals of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Pierre Augereau was born in Faubourg Saint-Marceau, Paris, as the son of a Parisian fruit seller .
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Pierre Augereau enlisted in the army at the age of seventeen in the Clare Infantry Regiment, but was discharged.
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Pierre Augereau became a noted swordsman and duellist, but he had to flee France after killing an officer in a quarrel.
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Pierre Augereau claimed to have served in the Russian Army against the Ottoman Empire, being present at the Siege of Izmail as a sergeant before deserting afterwards.
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Pierre Augereau deserted by masterminding a mass escape and reached Saxony, where he taught fencing.
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Pierre Augereau joined the cavalry in 1784, and after serving in the carabiniers he was sent to the Kingdom of Naples as part of a military mission.
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Pierre Augereau was then assigned to train recruits for General Jean-Antoine Marbot at Toulouse.
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Nevertheless, owing to his final adhesion to Bonaparte's fortunes, Pierre Augereau received a Marshal's baton at the beginning of the First French Empire on 19 May 1804.
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Pierre Augereau commanded a camp in Brest, Brittany, during preparations for the invasion of Britain.
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Pierre Augereau's corps was charged with protecting the army's lines of communications during the Ulm campaign.
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Pierre Augereau fought in the battles of Konstanz and Bregenz, before tracking down and destroying General Franz Jellacic's Austrian division at Dornbirn in Vorarlberg on 13 November 1805.
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Pierre Augereau distinguished himself at the Battle of Jena on 14 October 1806 where his corps made up the left flank.
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Pierre Augereau sat out the German campaign in spring 1813 due to illness.
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In 1814, Pierre Augereau was given command of the army of Lyon, and his slackness exposed him to the charge of having come to an understanding with the Allies.
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The emperor repulsed Pierre Augereau and charged him with being a traitor to France in 1814.
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Pierre Augereau died at his estate of La Houssaye only a year later.
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