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2 unusual facts about François Joseph Lefebvre


Army of the Danube order of battle

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Adjutants: Jean-Baptiste Drouet and François-Xavier Octavie Fontaine.

Initially, the Army included five future Marshals of France: its commander-in-chief Jourdan, François Joseph Lefebvre, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, and Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier.


Battle of Amberg

On 4 June 1796, 11,000 soldiers of the Army of the Sambre-et-Meuse, under Francois Lefebvre pushed back a 6,500-man Austrian force at Altenkirchen, north of the Lahn.

Cathérine Hübscher

Catherine Hubscher (Goldbach-Altenbach, 2 February 1753 - 1835) was a First French Empire noblewoman, maréchale Lefebvre and duchesse de Dantzig by her marriage to François Joseph Lefebvre.


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