Antoine Louis Popon de Maucune (21 February 1772 – 18 February 1824) joined the pioneer corps of the French army in 1786 and was a lieutenant

First Lieutenant

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 by the time the French Revolutionary Wars

French Revolutionary Wars

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 broke out. He fought in the north in 1792 and in the Alps in 1793. Afterward he served in Italy through 1801. During this period, he fought at Arcole in 1796 and at Novi in 1799. He was appointed to command the 39th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade and led it in the 1800 campaign.

During the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

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 Maucune led the 39th in Marshal

Marshal of France

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 Michel Ney

Michel Ney

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's VI Corps

VI Corps (Grande Armée)

The VI Corps of the Grande Armée was the name of a French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. It was formed at the Camp de Boulogne and assigned to Marshal Michel Ney. From 1805 through 1811, the army corps fought under Ney's command in the War of the Third Coalition, the War of...

 at Elchingen

Battle of Elchingen

The Battle of Elchingen, fought on October 14, 1805, saw French forces under Michel Ney rout an Austrian corps led by Johann Sigismund Riesch. This defeat led to a large part of the Austrian army being invested in the fortress of Ulm by the army of Emperor Napoleon I of France while other...

 in the 1805 campaign and at Jena, Magdeburg

Siege of Magdeburg (1806)

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, Soldau

Battle of Czarnowo

The Battle of Czarnowo on the night of 23–24 December 1806 saw troops of the First French Empire under the eye of Emperor Napoleon I launch an evening assault crossing of the Wkra River against Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy's defending Russian Empire forces...

, and Eylau

Battle of Eylau

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 in the 1806–1807 campaign. Promoted to general officer, he led a brigade at Friedland

Battle of Friedland

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 in 1807. In Spain from 1808 and 1811, he commanded a brigade at Gallegos, Tamames

Battle of Tamamés

The Battle of Tamames was a sharp reversal suffered by part of Marshal Michel Ney's French army under Major-General Jean Marchand in the Peninsular War. The French, advancing out of Salamanca, were met and defeated in battle by a Spanish army on October 18, 1809.-Course of battle:The Spanish drew...

, Alba de Tormes

Battle of Alba de Tormes

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, Ciudad Rodrigo

Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)

In the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, the French Marshal Michel Ney took the fortified city from Field Marshal Don Andrés Perez de Herrasti on 9 July 1810 after a siege that began on 26 April...

, Almeida

Siege of Almeida (1810)

In the Siege of Almeida, the French corps of Marshal Michel Ney captured the border fortress from Brigadier General William Cox's Portuguese garrison. This action was fought in the summer of 1810 during the Peninsular War portion of the Napoleonic Wars...

, Bussaco, Casal Novo

Battle of Casal Novo

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, and Fuentes de Onoro

Battle of Fuentes de Onoro

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In May 1811, the army was reorganized and Maucune was promoted to lead a division. This started a period of remarkable bad luck. At Salamanca

Battle of Salamanca

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 in July 1812, his isolated division was wrecked by a combination of British infantry and cavalry attacks. In June 1813, the British surprised his troops at San Millán de la Cogolla. His division was scattered at Sorauren

Battle of Sorauren

The Battle of Sorauren was part of a series of engagements in late July 1813 called the Battle of the Pyrenees in which a combined British and Portuguese force under Sir Arthur Wellesley held off Marshal Soult's French forces attempting to relieve San Sebastián.With sizable Anglo-Portuguese forces...

 in late July 1813 and at the Bidassoa

Battle of the Bidassoa (1813)

In the Battle of the Bidassoa on 7 October 1813 the Allied army of Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington wrested a foothold on French soil from Nicolas Soult's French army. The Allied troops overran the French lines behind the Bidassoa River on the coast and along the Pyrenees crest between the...

 in October. After these defeats, Marshal Nicolas Soult relieved him of command. Sent to Italy, he was defeated at the Taro River in April 1814 while defending against three-to-one odds. Maucune is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe

Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe

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on Column 35.