List of officers who died under Napoleon
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Throughout Napoleon's campaigns, The Napoleonic wars and the fallout from the wars, many officers including generals, officers, marshals, admirals and other state officials died. Some died in battle, others were executed, committed suicide, were murdered or died in war related events. Here is a complete chronological list of all those men from Napoleons earliest battle in Toulon to the fallout of the Bourbon Restoration.
| Name | Rank | Way of Death | Date of Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-Jacques Causse | General of Brigade | Died at the Second Battle of Dego. | April 15, 1796 |
| Jean Baptiste Muiron | Colonel | Killed by Musket fire while sacrificing himself to save Napoleon at the Battle of Arcole. | November 26, 1796 |
| Louis-Marie-Joseph Maximilian Caffarelli du Falga | General of Brigade | Contracted gangrene at Acre and died of a fever. | April 27, 1799 |
| Louis André Bon | General of Division | Killed at the Battle of Acre. | May 19, 1799 |
| Louis-Jacques Beauvais | General of Division | Died in a ship wreck bringing him back to France. | September 12, 1799 |
| Jean Baptiste Kleber | General of Division | Stabbed to death in Cairo by a Syrian extremist. | June 14th, 1800 |
| Louis Desaix | General of Division | Killed by musket fire while leading the victorious charge at the Battle of Marengo. | June 14th, 1800 |
| Louis Bastoul | General of Division | Died of wounds received at Hohenlinden. | January 15, 1801 |
| Charles Leclerc | General of Division | Died of yellow fever while leading the Haitian Expedition. | November 2, 1802 |
| Louis Alexis Baudoin | Captain of Ship | Killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. | October 21, 1805 |
| Pierre-Charles Villeneuve | Vice Admiral | After losing at Trafalgar and being brought back to France, Villeneuve "committed suicide" by stabbing himself six times in the lung and heart. Some believe Napoleon ordered the execution. | April 22, 1806 |
| Jean Christophe Collin | General of Division | Mortally wounded at Jena-Austedt. | October 18th, 1806 |
| Claude Corbineau | General of Division | Killed at Eylau. | February 8th, 1807 |
| Louis Binot | General of Brigade | Killed at the Battle of Eylau. | |
| Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul | General of Division | Hit with grapeshot while leading a cavalry charge at the Battle of Eylau. He later died of his wounds after refusing to amputate his leg. | February 14th, 1807 |
| François Frédéric Campana | General of Brigade | Killed in action at the Battle of Ostroleka. | February 16, 1807 |
| Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais | General of Division | Killed by British sharpshooter Tom Plunkett from over 300 meters at the Battle of Cacabelos. | January 3, 1809 |
| Jean-Baptiste Cervoni | General of Division | Decapitated by a cannonball at the Battle of Eckmuhl. | April 22, 1809 |
| Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne | General of Division | Mortally wounded leading a charge at the Battle of Aspern-Essling and died that same day on Lobau Island. | May 21, 1809 |
| Pierre Charles Pouzet | General of Brigade | Decapitated by a cannonball at the Battle of Aspern Essling. | May 22, 1809 |
| Jean Lannes | Marshal of the Empire | Mortally wounded at Aspern-Essling when a cannonball crushed his knee while mourning the loss of Pouzet. He died of his wounds eight days later. | May 31, 1809 |
| Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire | General of Division | Had his left leg torn off at Aspern-Essling by a cannonball. He died of gangrene 15 days later. | June 5, 1809 |
| Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle | General of Division | Killed at the Battle of Wagram when a Hungarian grenadier shot an already injured (from a shot to the chest from prior moments) Lasalle between the eyes, killing him instantly. | July 6, 1809 |
| Pierre Belon Lapisse, Baron de Saint-Hélène | General of Division | Mortally wounded at the Battle of Talevera. | July 30, 1809 |
| Jean Boudet | General of Division | Either died of gout or committed suicide after his poor performance at the Battle of Wagram was criticized. | September 14, 1809 |
| Nicolas Ernault des Bruslys | General of Division | Refusing to surrender Réunion to the British, Bruslys committed to kill himself. He first attempted to kill himself with his sabre, but failed. He then tried to blow his head off by detonating two sacks of gunpowder tied to his neck, but the powder failed to explode properly and left him severely burned. He eventually slit his carotid with his razor, successfully killing himself. | September 25, 1809 |
| Alexandre-Antoine Hureau de Sénarmont | General of Division | Killed by a cannon shell at the Siege of Cadiz. | October 26, 1810 |
| Louis-Annibal de Saint-Michel d'Agoult | General of Division | KIA in Pamplona. | December 17, 1810 |
| Bernard Dubourdieu | Rear Admiral | KIA in the Battle of Lissa. | March 13, 1811 |
| Vital Joachim Chamorin | General of Brigade | Killed by British cavalry at the Battle of Campo Maior. | March 25, 1811 |
| François Amable Ruffin | General of Division | Paralyzed after he was shot through the spine at the Battle of Barrosa. The British tried to tend to him, but he died on a transport ship to an English hospital. | May 15, 1811 |
| Baptiste Pierre Bisson | General of Division | Died from alcoholism and over eating. | July 26, 1811 |
| Jean Guillaume Barthélemy Thomières | General of Division | Killed in action at Salamanca. | July 22, 1812 |
| Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière | General of Division | Mortally wounded at the Battle of Valutino and died of a gangrene infected amputated leg three days later. | August 22nd, 1812 |
| Auguste-Jean-Gabriel de Caulaincourt | General of Division | Killed by a cannonball while leading a charge on the Great Redoubt at the Battle of Borodino. | September 7th, 1812 |
| Claude Antoine Compère | General of Brigade | Killed at Borodino. | September 7, 1812 |
| Antoine Louis Albitte | General of Division and Representative from Seine-Maritime | Died after three days of suffering from starvation, cold and fatigue. | December 23, 1812 |
| Pedro de Almeida Portugal, 3rd Marquis of Alorna | General of Division | Died of exhaustion from the Russian retreat at Koningsburg. | January 2, 1813 |
| Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers | General of Division | Died of exhaustion from the Russian retreat in Berlin. | January 6, 1813 |
| Jean-Baptiste Bessières | Marshal of the Empire | Killed instantly by a stray cannonball while performing recon ahead of the Battle of Lutzen. | May 1, 1813 |
| Géraud Duroc | General of Division and Grand Marshal of the Palace | Was hit by a cannonball while pursuing the allies after the Battle of Bautzen. He was disemboweled and died the next day. | May 23, 1813 |
| Jean-Andoche Junot | General of Division | After falling out of Napoleon's favor and being relieved of command of the Ilyrian Provinces due to mental instability, committed suicide in Montbard by screaming and jumping out of a window. | July 29, 1813 |
| André Joseph Boussart | General of Division | Succumbed to injuries received at Castalla. | August 11, 1813 |
| Józef Poniatowski | Marshal of the Empire | Drowned in the Elster River when he tried to escape Leipzig. | October 19, 1813 |
| Antoine Guillaume Delmas | General of Division | Mortally wounded at Leipzig and died thereafter. | October 30, 1813 |
| Nicolas François Conroux | General of Division | Mortally wounded at the Battle of Nivelle and died the next day in Bayonne. | November 11, 1813 |
| Louis-Chrétien Carrière, Baron de Beaumont | General of Division | Died of wounds received at Hanau. | December 16, 1813 |
| Pierre Baste | General of Division | KIA in the Battle of Brienne. | January 29, 1814 |
| Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty | General of Division | Died from many wounds suffered and exhaustion while in the Defense of France. | February 12, 1815 |
| Louis Alexandre Berthier | Marshal of the Empire | Died when he fell out of a window at his Bamberg estate during the Hundred Days. Most probably an accident, it might have been a guilt suicide from seeing Russian troops marching towards France or murdered by either Royalist or Bonapartist agents. | June 1, 1815 |
| Victor Frédéric Chassériau | General of Brigade | Killed when leading a charge at Waterloo. | June 18, 1815 |
| Jean-Baptiste Girard, Duke of Ligny | General of Division | Died of wounds received at Ligny. | June 27, 1815 |
| Guillaume Brune | Marshal of the Empire | Murdered by a royalist mob in Avignon. | August 2, 1815 |
| Joachim Murat | Marshal of the Empire | Executed by the Neopolitians. | October 13, 1815 |
| Michel Ney | Marshal of the Empire | Executed by the Bourbon Monarchy for joining Napoleon during the Hundred Days. | December 2, 1815 |
| Pierre-Roger Ducos | Vice President of the Senate and Former Co-Consul | Died in a carriage accident in Ulm while exiled from France. | March 16, 1816 |
| Edourd Mortier | Marshal of the Empire, Prime Minister of France | Killed by a barrel gun when Giuseppe Marco Fieschi fired on Mortier and the king during a parade. | July 28, 1835 |
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