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Napoleonic Wars. Jacques Macdonald, duke de Tarente (born November 17, 1765, Sedan, France—died September 25, 1840, Courcelles) was a French general who was appointed marshal of the empire by Napoleon. The son of a Scottish adherent of the exiled British Stuart dynasty, who had served in a Scots regiment in France, he joined the French army ...
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Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, 1st duc de Tarente (17 November 1765 – 25 September 1840), was a Marshal of the Empire and military leader during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. While not as famous as the other marshals of Napoleon, he was nonetheless a first-rate and successful general.
You are here: N apoleon & E mpire > Personalities > Notabilities > ⊙. A short biography (with portrait) of Etienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (1765-1840), Duke of Taranto, Marshal of the First French Empire.
Jacques Macdonald, who was based in Dünaburg and, despite Napoleon's orders, had carried out very few active activities from there, after that he was transferred to Jēkabpils Ginenbein's brigade from the French 7th Division, which was to help take Riga. 130 heavy ("siege") cannons were placed in Pilsrundāle.
Marshal Jacques Etienne Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (1765-1840) was the son of a Scottish immigrant who served under every regime from the pre-revolutionary Royal army, through the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods and on to the restored Bourbons.
Suffering the bitter consequences of his long association with Moreau, General Jacques Macdonald (1765-1840) could only watch in indignation as Napoleon ignored him the first appointments to the prestigious Marshalate in 1804.
1765-1840. Of Scottish descent, Jacques Macdonald was the only marshal to win his baton on the battlefield. He did so after destroying the Austrian centre at Wagram, but was fortunate to have been given the opportunity - having offended Napoleon Bonaparte with his vocal defence of the branded-traitor Jean Moreau.
