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Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor

Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor (English: , French:; 7 March 1770 – 28 July 1849) was a Marshal of France (1823), known for his experience during the Coalition Wars.
Molitor defeated Franjo Jelačić during the encounter at Mollis in 1799. Together with Honoré Gazan, he then managed to stop Alexander Suvorov's vanguard, commanded by Pyotr Bagration, at the combat of Näfels as part of the larger Battle of Glarus (1799). He also forced Dmitry Senyavin to lift the siege of Ragusa (1806). In the course of the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis", the French Royal intervention in the Spanish Royalist War, he commanded the initial siege of Pamplona (1823), ultimately successful.