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A first-rate biography of the famed Marshal Murat, the most famous cavalry leader of the Napoleonic Wars. Joachim Murat was born in Gascony, the department of Lot, and although his father was relatively affluent, no-one realized the spectacular rise that would lead him to a the crown of Naples and an indelible imprint on the history of his native France and all of Europe. Atteridge wrote a number of books on the men who worked as satellites to Napoleon, Emperor of the French, his commanders on the battlefield and the brothers he placed, or tried to place in power as a buffer to a vengeful Europe. Marshal Murat has often been caricatured as a dashing cavalry commander with little more brains ...
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Excerpt from Interesting Facts Relating to the Fall and Death of Joachim Murat, King of Naples: The Capitulation of Paris in 1815, and the Second Restoration of the Bourbons; Original Letters From King Joachim to the Author, With Some Account of the Author, and of His Persecution by the French Government 5 The Critical Review for February, 1817.shot. And again the reviewer says, we will notice but one other fact, in the way of observation on the nobleness of charac ter attributed by our author to Joachim. In the war with Austria which preceded the peace of Presburg, the French did not enter Vienna until the 13th November, when it was evacuated by the native troops. Murat commanding the advan...
Excerpt from Joachim Murat: Marshal of France and King of Naples The 'Army of Observation' - Command in Italy (1800-1801); Letters to La bastide; command at Dijon; Murat at Geneva and Milan; serves in Italy under General Brune; march into central Italy; affairs of Naples; Ancona occupied; birth of Achille Murat; Murat as a diplomatist; the Neapolitan treaty; Murat at Rome; returns to Florence; affairs of Egypt; Murat and Caroline; inauguration of the new 'Kingdom of Etruria'; conquest of Elba; Murat appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 'Army of Italy' with headquarters at Milan Murat Commander-in-Chief at Milan (1801-1803); Reports on the affairs of the Cisalpine Republic; a new Constitution;...
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