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Baron Antoine-Jean Gros was a french painter. He in 1793 left France for Italy, in Genoa he made the acquaintance of Joséphine de Beauharnais, and followed her to Milan, where he was well received by her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte. On November 15, 1796, Gros was present with the army near Arcola when Bonaparte planted the French tricolor on the bridge. Gros seized on this incident, and showed by his treatment of it that he had found his vocation. Bonaparte at once gave him the post of "inspecteur aux revues", which enabled him to follow the army, and in 1797 nominated him on the commission charged to select the spoils which should enrich the Louvre.Gros was decorated and named baron of the empire by Napoleon, after the Salon of 1808, at which he had exhibited the "Battle of Eylau"
Febuary 8th, 1807, between 53,000 French with 200 guns under Napoleon, and 72,000 Prussian and Russians, with 400 guns under Marshal Bennigsen. Napoleon attacked at daybreak, all along the line, but could at first make no impression on the Russian infantry, Marshal Augereau's 7th Corps being slaughtered during a snowstorm. Later in the day Marshal Davout all by succeeded turning the Russian left, but the oppertune arrival of a Prussian corps under General von Lestocq enabled the Russians to repulse him, and after a bloddy engagement, which lasted till ten p.m., both armies retainted their original positions. On the following day the Russiand retired unmolested. The French lost about 10,000; the Russians and Prussians about 25,000 killed and wounded. (Paladin dictionry of Battles)
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