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Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakov

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Prince

Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakov
Portrait by G. Dawe
Other name(s)Andrey
Born1768 (1768)
Moscow
Died1855 (1856) (aged 87)
Moscow
AllegianceRussia Russian Empire
Service / branchInfantry
Years of service1786–1820
RankLieutenant General
Commands1st Infantry Corps
Battles / wars
RelationsAlexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (uncle)

Prince 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. At Heilsberg he replaced Bennigsen as commander-in-chief, at Friedland he was at the head of the army's right wing (1807). 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.

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  • Duffy, Christopher (1999). Eagles over the Alps: Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland 1799. Chicago, Ill.: The Emperor's Press. ISBN 1-883476-18-6.
  • Leggiere, Michael V. (2007). The Fall of Napoleon: The Allied Invasion of France 1813-1814. Vol. 1. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87542-4.
  • Nafziger, George (2015). The End of Empire: Napoleon's 1814 Campaign. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company. ISBN 978-1-909982-96-3.
  • Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.