25th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment. As many as 1,000 of his troops were killed, wounded, or died of illness during the siege. The Austrians withdrew when Napoleon abdicated. Marulaz accepted the Bourbon Restoration and was made a Chevalier of the Order of Saint Louis in 1814. He held a number of positions under King Louis XVIII of France but during the Hundred Days, he switched his allegiance to Napoleon. After the emperor's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, he was forced to retire from military service in October 1815. Later career Marulaz remained in retirement until the July Revolution of 1830. On 7 February 1831 he was placed in the General Staff reserve and retired from the army for the last time on 1 December 1834. He died at the Château de Filain on 10 June 1842. He had acquired the property in 1808. During his military career, he was wounded 19 times and had 26 horses killed under him. Notes References Arnold, James R. Crisis on the Danube. New York: Paragon House, 1990. Arnold, James R. Napoleon Conquers Austria. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1995. Bowden, Scotty & Tarbox, Charlie. Armies on the Danube 1809. Arlington, Texas: Empire Games Press, 1980. Chandler, David. The Campaigns of Napoleon. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Epstein, Robert M. Napoleon's Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Petre, F. Loraine. Napoleon and the Archduke Charles. New York: Hippocrene Books, (1909) 1976. Petre, F. Loraine. Napoleon's Campaign in Poland 1806–1807. New York: Hippocrene Books, (1909) 1976 Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. Sonet, Pierre R. "Marulaz (dit Marola), Jacob François Claude : Général, baron de l'Empire" in Dictionnaire biographique de la Haute-Saône, Vesoul, 2005, p. 564-565. French soldiers French generals French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Knights of the Order of Saint Louis Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe 1769 births 1842 deaths