Name: Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington
Nationality: British
Status: Alive
Notes: In January 1810, He landed an invasion force in Holland, from which he liberated the Kingdoms of Holland and Belgium. The Duke and his army continued to liberate many of states, although he was wounded during the Battle for the Weser River in August. Once he returned, Wellington and his men liberated many more German States, but suffered another setback in Strasbourg, where an Anglo-Dutch army was defeated by French armies from Switzerland.
Name: Sir Sidney Smith
Nationality: British
Status: Alive
Notes: A British Admiral, who has often been compared to the late Horatio Nelson due to his several victories. He was one of the greatest contributors in securing and removing the French naval threat in the English Channel during the early months of 1811. He left the docks of Portsmouth in March 1811 with Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel and his army and travelled to Greece in September, successfully evading several French and Ottoman Fleets. He still remains in Greece.
Name: Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel
Nationality: German (Westphalia)
Status: Alive
Notes: An Ambitious German General, who enlisted into the British army with the aim to defeat Napoleon. He left London in March 1811, and arrived in Greece by September. He was recognised with the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman Empire, and has continued to move North with his Greek allies into the Balkans.
Name: Napoleon Bonaparte
Nationality: French
Status: Alive
Notes: The Emperor of France, who has arguably been one of the most successful political and military leaders of our time. He defeated the great powers of Prussia, Austria and Russia in little less than 5 years, with his Empire now spanning across most of the European continent. He has yet to be seen personally by the British in the west, and is rumoured to still be in Moscow.
Name: Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey
Nationality: French
Status: Alive
Notes: A Marshal of Napoleon’s Empire, who returned to Paris after victories in the east to deal with the arising British Threat. He arrived outside the city of Paris in November 1811, but was too late to help defend Paris after John Moore’s victory. He attacked the city only days after the British Occupation, and resulted in Victory for the French Empire along with John Moore’s death. He has now travelled into Reims in order to defeat the British there.
Name: Geerard Ouwater
Nationality: Belgian
Status: Alive (out of action)
Notes: A Belgian General who enlisted into the British Army after the liberation of Belgium in January 1810. He protected Belgium’s borders for several months and led an Anglo-Belgian army into the French region of Picardie-Champagne. He was defeated there in May 1811 and fled back to Belgium. Due to his devastating defeat, he was replaced with George Townshend Walker on Belgian’s border and has yet to see action since.
Name: John Moore
Nationality: British
Status: Deceased
Notes: A Scottish General, who remained rather inactive through the early days of the war. However, in November 1811 he crossed the English Channel and besieged Paris itself alongside George Townshend Walker. He was victories in battle and occupied Paris but only several days later, French Marshal, Jeannot de Moncey had arrived with a far superior army. John Moore’s men struggled against the large French force and Moore himself perished in battle. Despite his failure at holding the French Capital, He is still remembered throughout the British Isles as the first to occupy Paris.
Name: George Townshend Walker
Nationality: British
Status: Deceased
Notes: A British General who successful defended Westphalia from French offensives for several months. Due to his actions in Westphalia, he was deployed in Belgium after the failure of General Geerard Ouwater in May 1811, where he eventually defeated the French at Reims and occupied the city itself. He remained in Reims until November 1811, when he moved his army towards the French Capital of Paris for a joint assault alongside John Moore. He fell in battle during the siege after a heroic charge against a superior French Cavalry force.
Name: Alexander Mercer
Nationality: British
Status: Deceased
Notes: He arrived on Continental Europe in July 1810, in which he liberated both Caen and Bretagne, and therefore the Duchy of Brittany. He was famed for his successful defences against several French offensives at Caen, in which he held his fort for several months. He was a very ambitious man and in April 1811, he besieged the French Capital of Paris itself. He was defeated here however, and only two months later, he perished alongside an army of French Royalists at Orléans.
Name: André Masséna
Nationality: French
Status: Deceased
Notes: A French Marshal of Napoleon’s French Empire widely regarded as one of the best military commanders by the Emperor himself. He contributed greatly to defeating the Austrians in Italy and their inevitable downfall by 1808. He stayed in Italy until Wellington’s army had taken over Strasbourg, in which in besieged the city himself in an attempt to reoccupy it for the French Empire in July 1811. He was killed by a musket ball to back as he fled near the end of the battle.
Name: Horatio Nelson
Nationality: British
Status: Deceased
Notes: An experienced admiral who managed to ensure British naval supremacy within the Atlantic. He died in July 1810 during the Battle of the Bay of Biscay. Julien Marie Cosmao-Kerjulien, a French admiral approached Nelson’s much smaller fleet, which resulted in a victory for Nelson, however his ship was set on fire during the battle and was the cause of the admiral’s death and his crew.
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