Napoleon's Marshals, Ranked (All Parts)

In 1804 Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the senior officers of the Grande Armée. He created a further 8 before his abdication in 1814. A few were aristocrats, but others were the sons of shopkeepers or tailors. The most favoured became princes and kings. Among their ranks were legendary figures such as Marshals Lannes, Ney, Soult, Davout and Masséna, but also less well know figures like Pérignon, Brune and Moncey. Our series explores the lives of all 26 Marshals, and ranks them according to our own judgement of their achievements as Marshals.

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00:00 Intro
03:18 Marshal Pérignon
04:50 Marshal Brune
07:41 Marshal Sérurier
09:45 Marshal Kellermann
11:42 Marshal Grouchy
14:25 Marshal Moncey
17:36 Marshal Poniatowski
21:03 Marshal Jourdan
23:58 Marshal Bernadotte
30:18 Marshal Augereau
35:18 Marshal Lefebvre
40:04 Marshal Mortier
45:16 Marshal Marmont
51:36 Marshal Saint-Cyr
56:55 Marshal Oudinot
1:03:16 Marshal Victor
1:09:34 Marshal Murat
1:21:41 Marshal Bessières
1:28:58 Marshal Macdonald
1:37:42 Marshal Masséna
1:46:30 Marshal Suchet
1:54:44 Marshal Ney
2:09:17 Marshal Soult
2:21:25 Marshal Berthier
2:32:55 Marshal Lannes
2:44:41 Marshal Davout

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Boggles the mind that Bernadotte started a dynasty that exists to this day.

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[Zero]

I have been a huge Star Trek Ds9 fan since it premiered in the 90's. I was amazed to find out that the actor who played Odo, Rene Auberjanois, was a direct descendent of Marshal Murat and Princess Caroline, thus making him also related to Napoleon himself!

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[passionenapoleonica]

Epic History TV you should also rank the other main generals of the French Revolutionary Wars such as Luckner, Dumouriez, Custine, LaFayette, Pichegru, Hoche, Joubert, Moreau, Desaix, Kléber and Dumas.

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[aarengraves]

Marshal Ney is my all time favorite. This man was relentless, he was a maverick.