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List of French general officers (Peninsular War) : ウィキペディア英語版 | List of French general officers (Peninsular War) The following list of French general officers (Peninsular War) lists the ''générals'' (''général de brigade'' and ''général de division'') and ''maréchals d'Empire'', that is, the French general officers who served in the First French Empire's ''Grande Armée'' in Spain and Portugal during the Peninsular War (1808–1814). The rank given refers to the ones held until 1814. The list includes foreign nationals who fought in French military units. ==Overview== Napoleon had intended the campaign on the Peninsula to be a walkover, but what he would come to call the Spanish Ulcer,〔Hindley, Meredith (2010) ("The Spanish Ulcer: Napoleon, Britain, and the Siege of Cádiz" in ''Humanities'', January/February 2010, Volume 31, Number 1. ) National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 27 August 2013.〕 ended up with him having had to send in thirteen of his ''maréchals'' (ten of whom were of the first promotion – of fourteen – and included Soult, one of only six men to have been appointed Marshal General of France in the history of France), as well as two "honorary" marshals, Kellermann and Lefebvre, and enter Madrid himself. Apart from the original 28,000 troops that had entered Spain under Junot, heading for Portugal, he would have to send in a further two hundred and seventy thousand men — more than half of the empire’s total military strength.〔
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