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The Many Wounds of Marshal Oudinot

Marshal Nicolas Charles Oudinot (1767-1847) suffered--according to differing sources--somewhere between 22 and 34 battlefield wounds and injuries over the course of his 30-plus-year military career. Here is a (possibly incomplete) list of his wounds compiled just from his memoirs (which were gathered and published by his second wife shortly after his death).

Gunshot wound to head at Hagenau, 1794.

Broken leg at Treves (he fell from his horse while leading a charge), 11 August 1794.

Five sabre wounds during a night attack at Neckerau on 18 Oct 1795.

Gunshot wound to the thigh, 3 sabre strokes to the arms and 1 to the neck, at Neuberg, 14 September 1796.

Struck by a ball in the chest at Wurenlos near Zurich, 4 June 1799.

Bullet in shoulderblade at Schwitz, 14 August 1799.

Struck by a ball in the chest near Zurich, September 1799.

Ball through thigh at Battle of Hollabrunn, 16 Nov 1805.

Ball in left arm at Essling, May 1809.

Left ear pierced by bullet near Wagram, 1809.

Bullet to the thigh at Wagram, 6 July 1809.

Grapeshot wound to the shoulder at Poltosk, 17 August 1812.

Bullet in the side at the Berezina, 28 November 1812.

Ball in the breast at Arcis-sur-Aube, 21 March 1814.

Source: Memoirs of Marshal Oudinot: Duc de Reggio, by Eugénie de Coucy Oudinot (duchesse de Reggio) [English translation, 1897]

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