Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor

Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor
Portrait by Horace Vernet, 1831
Born7 March 1770 (1770-03-07)
Hayingen, France
Died28 July 1849(1849-07-28) (aged 79)
Paris, France
Allegiance Kingdom of France
First French Republic
First French Empire
Kingdom of France
BranchInfantry
Service years1789–1827
RankMarshal of France
Conflicts
AwardsCount of the Empire
Other workGovernor of Les Invalides
(1847–1848)

Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor (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.