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Berthier served as chief of staff to Napoleon Bonaparte from his first Italian campaign in 1796 until his first abdication in 1814. The operational efficiency of the Grande Armée owed much to his considerable administrative and organizational skills.
He was born at Montauban, and at the age of thirteen accompanied his father, Charles-Benoît, comte de Guibert (1715–1786), chief of staff to Maréchal de Broglie, throughout the Seven Years' War in Germany, and was awarded the cross of St Louis and then promoted to the rank of colonel in the expedition to Corsica (1767).
The Staff of the Grande Armée was known as the Imperial Headquarters and was divided into two major sections: Napoleon's Military Household and the Army General Headquarters. A third department dependent on the Imperial Headquarters was the office of the Intendant Général (Quartermaster General), providing the administrative staff of the army.
The Chief of the Military Staff of the President of the Republic (Chef d'état-major particulier du président de la République) is a role in the military and government of France, heading the president's military staff until the French Fifth Republic.
Probably because many Dutch officers (like generals Chassé and Trip) had served in the French Grande Armée this new army was organized along the lines of the French army. In any case its general staff took Marshal Berthier's famous état-major-général as a model, and not the British system. Nevertheless, because Rebecque had long served as ...
The chief of staff was assisted by an état-major-général, who ran the GQG general staff of around 50 officers and saw that the commander-in-chief's orders were carried out and two aides-majors with responsibilities for the individual departments of GQG. [4] [5] GQG was originally organised into four bureaux (or departments).
In 1807, after Joseph Bonaparte was made King of Naples, he appointed Lamarque as his Chief of Staff, with the rank of general of division. When Joachim Murat took over from Joseph Bonaparte, Lamarque was sent to consolidate his position by capturing Capri from the British commanded by Hudson Lowe. In a bold attack, Lamarque took the British by ...
The Chief of the Army Staff (French: Chef d'état-major de l'armée de terre, [a] CEMAT) [2] is the military head of the French Army. [3] The chief directs the army staff and acts as the principal advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff on subjects concerning the Army. [4]