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Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakov

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Service/branch
  
Infantry

Commands held
  
1st Infantry Corps

Rank
  
Lieutenant general

Years of service
  
1786–1820

Died
  
1855

Allegiance
  
Russian Empire

Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakov

Born
  
1768 Moscow (
1768
)

Battles/wars
  
War of the Second Coalition Battle of Cassano (1799) Battle of Trebbia (1799) Battle of Novi (1799) French invasion of Russia Battle of Smolensk (1812) Battle of Borodino (1812) War of the Sixth Coalition Battle of Bautzen (1813) Battle of Dresden (1813) Battle of Leipzig (1813) Battle of Brienne (1814) Battle of Bar-sur-Aube (1814) Battle of Laubressel (1814) Battle of Paris (1814)

Battles and wars
  
War of the Second Coalition, Battle of Cassano

Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakov (1768 – 1855) led a Russian infantry corps in the German Campaign of 1813 and the French Campaign of 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars. He participated in the 1799 Italian and Swiss expedition on the staff of his uncle Alexander Suvorov and was at Cassano, the Trebbia and Novi. In 1812 he fought at Smolensk and Borodino. At Bautzen in May 1813 he led the second line of the Right Wing. He commanded the 1st Infantry Corps, at Dresden and Leipzig in 1813 and at Bar-sur-Aube, Laubressel and Paris in 1814.

References

Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakov Wikipedia