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17 de mar. de 2017 · Marshal Michel Ney was one of Napoleon's most trusted commanders and saw service throughout the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Enlisting in the army in 1787, Ney rose through the ranks and was commissioned five years later. Marshal Michel Ney fought at such key battles as Hohenlinden, Elchingen, Russia, Lutzen, and Waterloo.
24 de ene. de 2017 · Napoléon’s beloved Marshal Michel Ney went down swinging a broken sword for France—only to face a firing squad of his countrymen. Napoléon Bonaparte called him “a lion” and amid an army of heroes singled him out as “the bravest of the brave.”. One of his fellow French marshals perhaps said it best: “We are soldiers, but Ney is a ...
What a soldier! The army of France is full of brave men, but Michel Ney is truly the bravest of the brave!" 2 Prince Eugene wept when he heard the news, and he immediately set out with a force to rescue Ney and his men, breaking through to them the next day. Ney's rearguard was reinforced, and their next major combat came at the Battle of the ...
17 de may. de 2018 · Michel Ney was born at Saarlouis on Jan. 10, 1769. He received a very elementary education and at the age of 19 enlisted in the army. When the Revolution swept over France, he embraced the new political and social ideas and in 1792 was elected lieutenant. During the Revolutionary Wars he rose to the rank of general (1799).
Ney led the Grande Armée's VI Corps against the Third Coalition in 1805. After the débâcle of Albeck in October, which triggered a lifelong feud with Murat, he redeemed himself with a brilliant performance at Elchingen a few days later, but missed the triumph at Austerlitz after leading his corps into the Tyrol to block Archduke John's Austrian army.
When Ney was awakened in his cell to listen to his sentence, he interrupted the long enumeration of his titles. "Enough! Just say Michel Ney, soon a handful of dust." On December 7, instead of executing him on the Grenelle Plain, as was the custom, he was taken to the avenue de l'Observatoire, to avoid the crowds.
Michel Ney. / 48.858772°N, 2.396071°E / 48.858772; 2.396071. Michel Ney, duc d' Elchingen, príncep de Moscova, Mariscal de França, nascut el 10 de gener del 1769 a Saarlouis, al Sarre (actualment Alemanya) i mort afusellat el 7 de desembre del 1815 a la Place de l'Observatoire de París. [1]
