Honour And Glory Under Napoleon

Napoleon's Grande Armee is a group dedicated to the memory of history's greatest general; his tactics, his victories, his diplomacy, and his everlasting legacy. Let us plant the Revolutionary Tricolour on our enemy's ramparts.

The Grande Armée (French for ″Great Army″ or ″Grand Army″) first entered the annals of history when, in 1805, Napoleon I renamed the army that he had assembled on the French coast of the English Channel for the proposed invasion of Britain. It never achieved its primary goal, as Napoleon had to re-deploy it east in order to eliminate the threat of Austria and Russia, which were part of the Third Coalition assembled against France.

The first Grande Armée consisted of six corps under the command of Napoleon's marshals and senior generals. When Napoleon discovered that Russian and Austrian armies were preparing to invade France in late 1805, the Grande Armée was quickly ordered across the Rhine into Southern Germany, leading to Napoleon's victories at Ulm, Austerlitz and Jena.

The army grew in size as Napoleon's might spread across Europe. It reached its maximum size of 600,000 men at the start of the invasion of Russia in 1812. All contingents were commanded by French generals, except for a Polish and an Austrian corps. The huge multinational army marched slowly eastwards, with the Russians falling back before it. After the capture of Smolensk and victory in the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon and a part of the Grande Armée reached Moscow on 14 September 1812; however, the army was already drastically reduced due to the numbers killed and wounded in battles with the Russians, disease (principally typhus), desertion and long communication lines.

-Leader-
His Imperial Majesty, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and Emperor of the Confederation of the Rhine

"Legion De Honour"

Marshal of the 1st Corps: =[TkD]= Warpath
Marshal of the 2nd Corps: Петр Коновницын ®
Marshal of the 3rd Corps: <IBH>Gladius 3rd Corps
Marshal of the 4th Corps: =[TkD]= CandyTheGreat
Marshal of the 5th Corps: ar15rf
Marshal of the 6th Corps: .::EITC::. Lord Cutler Beckett

-Generals of the Grande Armee-

General of the Armee De Espaign: {C9BE} the_swede
General of the Armee De Italie: Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
General of the Armee De Rhine: Jaeger_Meister
General of the Armee De Helvetie: Emperor Yomasuki of Japan
General of the Armee De Norde: (CC) Aulus_Titurius
General of the Armee De Batavia: princeofrussia [AVE IMPERATOR]
General of the Armee De Orient: Horatio Nelson
General of the Armee De Seine: Emperor Frederick IV

*Our Diplomatic Status*

Enemy Nations: Hannibal's Grand Army
Allied Powers: The East India Trading Company, Carl XI's Baltic Empire, The French Republic, Confederate-ness, the United States of America and The Legion of Estonia

Grande Marsching Tune: "Le Marsailles"