The Garde Imperiale and Its Commanders during the Period 1804 – 1815
Bataillon de Marins
By Tony
Broughton, FINS
Regimental History
1804 : Created, Bataillon de Marines de la Garde Imperiale
1814 : Disbanded
1815 : Reformed (19 May 1815)
1815 : Disbanded (4 September 1815)
Commanders of the Bataillon de Marines de la Garde Imperiale with
the rank of Capitaine de Vaisseau 1er Classe
1803: Daugier (Francois-Henri-Eugene)
1809: Baste (Pierre)
1810: Vattier (Antoine)
1811: Ganteaume (Honore-Joseph-Antoine)
1811: Motard (Leonard-Bernard)
1813: Saizeu (Louis-Pierre-Francois-Ricard-Barthelemi)
1815: Taillade (?)
Two of the above officers attained the rank of Contre-Amiral and
above
Daugier, (Francois-Henri-Eugene)
Born: 12 September 1764
Commander: 27 September 1803
Commander of the Legion d’Honneur: 14 June 1804
Died: 12 April 1834
Baste, (Pierre)
Born : 21 November 1768
Commander: 11 April 1809
Contre-Amiral: 19 July 1811
Commander of the Legion d’Honneur: 28 February 1810
Count of the Empire: 25 March 1810
Died: 29 January 1814 (killed at Brienne)
Vattier, (Antoine)
No available information
Ganteaume, (Honore-Joseph-Antoine)
Born : 13 April 1755
Commander: 1 August 1811
Contre-Amiral : 7 November 1798
Vice-Amiral: 30 May 1804
Grand-Eagle of the Legiond’Honneur: 2 February 1805
Count of the Empire: 11 July 1810
Died: 28 September 1818
Motard, (Leonard-Bernard)
No available information
Saizeu, (Louis-Pierre-Francois-Ricard-Barthelemi)
No available information
Taillade (?)
No available information
Senior officers who served with the Bataillon de Marines de la Garde
Imperiale killed and wounded whilst in the service of France
Baste - Killed 29 January 1814
Ganteaume - Wounded 1 June 1794 and 1 August 1798
Officers killed and wounded whilst serving with the Bataillon de
Marines de la Garde Imperiale during the period 1804 - 1815
Officers killed: One
Officers died of wounds: Two
Officers wounded: Eighteen
Regimental History (battles and combats in which officers were killed
and wounded)
1805: Austerlitz
1808: Madrid and Baylen
1812: Beresina and Wilna
Bibliography
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militaire de la Garde Imperiale Paris; 1847.
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Placed on the Napoleon Series: November 2003
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