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1762 CE - 1833 CE: Life of Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, marshal of the French Empire.
1778 CE: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan enlists in the French Royal Army at the age of 16, is deployed to the West Indies.
1779 CE: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan sees combat during the failed French assault at the Siege of Savannah in the American War of Independence.
1791 CE: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan enlists in the French Revolutionary Army with the 2nd Haute-Vienne Volunteers, is elected chef de bataillon.
1793 CE: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan is promoted to general of brigade.
1793 CE: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan takes command of the Armée du Nord.
1793 CE: Battle of Wattignies results in victory for the French Republic over an Austrian army.
1794 CE: The French are victorious at the Battle of Fleurus; their armies remain ascendent for the rest of the War of the First Coalition.
1796 CE: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan is defeated at the Battle of Würzburg, leading to the failure of his Rhineland campaign.
1798 CE: The 'Jourdan Law' is passed, ordering all French unmarried males between the ages of 20-25 be available for conscription.
1804 CE: Jourdan is among the first 14 men to be made marshals of the empire by Emperor Napoleon I.
1813 CE: A French army under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jourdan is defeated by Wellington's Allied army at the Battle of Vitoria.
1819 CE: Jourdan is made a Peer of France by the restored Bourbon monarchy.