Napoleon’s Marshals Part 5

👉 Get Surfshark VPN at and enter promo code EPICHISTORY for 83% off and 3 extra months for free! 👕 Buy Manga Marshals mugs and stickers, as well as EHTV t-shirts & hoodies here... 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. 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 Massena, but also much less well know figures like Pérignon, Brune and Moncey. Our series will explore the lives of all 26 Marshals, and rank them according to our own judgement of their achievements as Marshals.