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Born May 17, 1729 • Bern • Switzerland
Died December 3, 1799 (aged 70) • Augsburg • Germany
Role In French Revolutionary wars
Niklaus Leuenberger
Swiss hero
Aloys Reding
Swiss politician
Johann Friedrich Willading
Swiss statesman
Bubenberg, Adrian von
Adrian von Bubenberg
Swiss soldier and politician
Hans Franz Nägeli
Swiss politician
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt, the Younger
prime minister of United Kingdom
Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Horatio Nelson
British naval commander
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Polish general and statesman
Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, Graf Rimniksky, Knyaz Italiysky, Reichsgraf
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, Count Rimniksky
Russian military officer
Manuel de Godoy
prime minister of Spain
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
French general [1762–1806]
André Masséna, duc de Rivoli
André Masséna, duc de Rivoli, prince d’Essling
French general
Dominique-René Vandamme, count of Unebourg
French general
Jacques-Pierre Brissot
French revolutionary leader
Dumouriez, detail of a portrait by J. Rouillard; in the National Museum of Versailles and Trianons
Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez
French general
Victor Moreau
Victor Moreau
French general
Archduke Charles
Archduke Charles
Austrian field marshal
Frederick William II
Frederick William II
king of Prussia