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See also:PRINCE See also:PETER See also:BAGRATION (1765-1812)
, See also:Russian See also:general descended from the See also:noble Georgian See also:family of the Bagratides, was See also:born in 1765
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He entered the Russian See also:army in 1782, See also:awl served for some years in the See also:Caucasus
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He was engaged in the See also:siege of See also:Ochakov (1788), and in the See also:Polish See also:campaign of 1794, being See also:present at the taking of Praga and See also:Warsaw
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His merits were recognized by See also:Suvarov, whom he accompanied in the See also:Italian and Swiss campaign of 1799, winning particular distinction by the See also:capture of the See also:town of See also:Brescia
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In the See also:wars of 1805 his achievements were even more brilliant
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With a small rearguard he successfully resisted the repeated attacks of forces five times his own See also:numbers (Hollabrunn), and though See also:half his men See also:fell, the See also:retreat of the See also:main army under See also:Kutusov was thereby secured
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At See also:Austerlitz he was engaged against the See also:left wing of the See also:French army, under See also:Murat and See also:Lannes, and at See also:Eylau, See also:Heilsberg and See also:Friedland he fought with the most resolute and stubborn courage; In 18o8 by a daring See also: 6 An interesting pamphlet by See also:Eugene de- Bricqueville, See also:Les Musettes (See also:Paris, 1894), p . 36, with illustrations . 8 See See also:Antoine Vidal, Les See also:Instruments d archet (Paris, 1871), vol.1. p . 81, See also:note 1 . commanded the and army of the See also:West, and though defeated at See also:Mogilev (23rd See also:July), rejoined the main army under See also:Barclay,, and led the left wing at See also:Borodino (7th See also:Sept.), where he received a mortal See also:wound . A See also:monument was erected in his See also:honour by the See also:tsar See also:Nicholas I. on the battlefield of Borodino . |
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