Editing Thomas Robert Bugeaud (section)

==Early life==
He was born at [[Limoges]], a member of a noble family of [[Périgord]] ([[Occitania]]), the youngest of thirteen children. He ran away from home, and for some years lived in the country as an agricultural worker. At the age of twenty, he became a private soldier in the ''Vélites'' of the [[Imperial Guard (Napoleon I)|Imperial Guard]], with which he took part in the [[Battle of Austerlitz|Austerlitz]] campaign of the following year. Early in 1806, he was given a commission, and as a [[Second Lieutenant]] he served in the [[Battle of Jena|Jena]] and [[Battle of Eylau|Eylau]] campaigns, winning his promotion to the rank of lieutenant at the [[Battle of Pultusk]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, Thomas Robert |volume=4 |pages=758–759}}</ref>

In 1808, he was in the first French corps to enter [[Spain]], and was stationed in [[Madrid]] during the [[Dos de Mayo Uprising|revolt of the Dos Mayo]]. At the [[Second Siege of Saragossa|Second Siege of Zaragossa]], he won further promotion to the rank of captain, and in 1809–1810 found opportunities for winning distinction under [[Louis Gabriel Suchet|Suchet]] in the eastern theatre of the [[Peninsular War]], in which he rose to the rank of major and the command of a full regiment. At the first restoration he was made a colonel, but he rejoined [[Napoleon]] during the [[Hundred Days]], and under his old chief Suchet distinguished himself in the war in the [[Alps]].<ref name="EB1911" />
[[File:Bugeaud Dulong duel.jpg|left|thumb|The Bugeaud Dulong duel, in the image the ghostly figure is a reference to  King [[Louis Philippe I|Louis-Phillipe]] who it was claimed stoked the tensions as a means to distance himself from the treatment of the Duchess of Berry]]