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François Roguet
François Roguet (12 November 1770 – 4 December 1846) became a French division commander in the Imperial Guard (Napoleon I), Imperial Guard during the Napoleonic Wars. He enlisted in the French Royal Army in 1789. His regiment was assigned to the Army of Italy (France), Army of Italy in 1792 and fought in the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars. He commanded a battalion at the Battle of Rivoli in 1797. He was badly wounded at the Battle of Verona (1799), Battle of Verona in 1799. For suppressing partisans he was promoted to command an infantry regiment. Promoted general of brigade in 1803, Roguet fought at Battle of Elchingen, Elchingen and Scharnitz in 1805. He led his brigade at Battle of Jena, Jena and Siege of Magdeburg (1806), Magdeburg in 1806 and at Battle of Eylau, Eylau and Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen, Guttstadt in 1807. He led a Young Guard brigade at Battle of Aspern-Essling, Aspern-Essling and Battle of Wagram, Wagram. He was in Spain in 1808 and 1810– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 493,465 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2019 census); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,454,158 inhabitants (2019 census). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 20 French Métropoles, with one of the three strongest demographic growth (2013-2019). Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It hosts the CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST) which is the largest national space centre in Europe, but also, on the military side, the newly created NATO space centre of excellence and the French Space Command and Space Academy. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
