Jean-Pierre Firmin Malher
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Jean-Pierre Firmin Malher (French pronunciation:
Early career
Born in
Napoleonic Wars
1805
When Emperor
On 8 October, the VI Corps marched to Giengen, northwest of Ulm.[3] The following day, Ney ordered Malher to move south and seize the bridges over the Danube near Günzburg. To accomplish this task, Malher formed three columns. The western column under Etienne Nicolas Lefol aimed for the bridge at Leipheim. This force gave up after following a road that ended in a marsh.[4] The 59th Regiment formed the eastern column, which was directed toward a bridge on the east side of Günzburg. The central column, which contained most of three regiments, marched straight at Günzburg. These troops collided with a force of Tyrolean jagers under Konstantin Ghilian Karl d'Aspré to start the Battle of Günzburg.[5]
Alarmed by the French, the defenders of Günzburg destroyed all the bridges. Cut off, d'Aspré surrendered with 200 jagers and two cannons. Malher tried to rebuild the two bridges at Günzburg but was forced to give up under the intense fire of 20 cannons and the Archduke Charles Infantry Regiment # 3.
On 13 October, Malher clashed with an Austrian force led by Johann Laudon at the
1808
On 30 November 1807, a French army occupied
The name MALHER is engraved on Column 7 of the
Notes
- ^ a b Smith, 203
- ^ Kagan, 407 map
- ^ Kagan, 396 map
- ^ Kagan, 406
- ^ a b Kagan, 408
- ^ a b Kagan, 409
- ^ Thiers, 101
- ^ Kagan, 424
- ^ Kagan, 428
- ^ Smith, 211
- ^ Glover, 45-46
- ^ Glover, 47-48
- ^ "paris-architecture.info World Architecture File: Panthéon in Paris". Archived from the original on 2008-03-24. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
References
- ISBN 0-14-139041-7
- Kagan, Frederick W. The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2006. ISBN 0-306-81137-5
- (in French) [1] Thiers, Adolphe. Histoire du consulat et de l'empire. Vol. 6.
- ISBN 1-85367-276-9