Claim: French soldier Hercule Corbineau served as chef d'escadron in the Imperial Guard fighting four battles from 1805 to 1807.
Evidence: Marie Louis Hercule Hubert Corbineau (10 April 1780 – 5 April 1823) was a French soldier of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Corbineau entered the Imperial Guard on 12 September 1805, where he served in the Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale successively as an adjoint à l'état-major (assistant to the Staff), then adjudant-major, and finally as a chef d'escadron. He fought at the battles of Austerlitz (2 December 1805), afterwards receiving promotion to major (18 December 1805), and also at Jena (14 October 1806), Eylau (7/8 February 1807)—where he was wounded in the right thigh, and his older brother Claude was killed—and Friedland (14 June 1807).