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Download or read book The Death of Joachim Murat written by Jonathan North and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joachim Murat, son of an innkeeper, had won his spurs as Napoleon’s finest cavalry general and then won his throne when, in 1808, Napoleon appointed him king of Naples. He loyally ran this strategic Italian kingdom with his wife, Napoleon’s sister Caroline, until, in 1814, with Napoleon beaten and in retreat towards ruin and exile, the royal couple chose to betray their imperial relation and dramatically switched sides. This notorious betrayal won them temporary respite, but just a year later Murat engineered his own dramatic fall. A series of blunders took the cavalier king from thinking he had secured his dynasty to fleeing his kingdom. His native France did not welcome him, initially because Napoleon had not forgiven him, then, after Napoleon’s fall following Waterloo, because the restored Bourbons were offering a reward for Murat’s head. Fleeing again, fate brought him to Corsica where, welcomed at last, Murat turned to plotting the reversal in his fortunes he so felt he deserved. Murat soon resolved to bet everything on a hare-brained plan to return to Naples as a conquering hero and king. His aim was to take a small band of followers, land near his capital, organise regime change and reclaim his throne. In September 1815, he set off and what happened next forms the core of this part-tragic, part-ridiculous story and a lesson in how not to stage a coup. Just five days after landing in Calabria, King Joachim was hauled before a firing squad and executed. There is a fine line in history between a fool and a hero. Had Murat succeeded then he would be lauded as daringly heroic but, alas, he failed, and his final adventure has been consigned to oblivion. This is unfortunate as the fall of Joachim Murat is the final act of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe as well as being a dramatic story in its own right. Based on research in the archives of Paris and Naples, Jonathan North’s book aims to throw light on the fate of the mightily fallen Murat and restore some history to a tale that, until now, lay smothered under two centuries of fable and neglect.
Download or read book World Military Leaders written by Mark Grossman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles profiling important military leaders are arranged in A to Z format.
Download or read book The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1941-01-22 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon written by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memoirs of the Private Life Return and Reign of Napoleon in 1815 written by M. Fleury De Chaboulon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815 by M. Fleury De Chaboulon
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Download or read book Memoirs of an Ottoman Prince written by Prince Ali Vâsıb (great-grandson of Murad V, Sultan of the Turks) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cyclopaedia of Biography Embracing a Series of Original Memoirs of the Most Distinguished Persons of All Times written by Elihu Rich and published by London : R. Griffin. This book was released on 1854 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Comprehensive Dictionary of Biography Embracing a Series of Original Memoirs of the Most Distinguished Persons of All Countries Living and Dead To which is Added a Classified List of the Most Distinguished Persons of All Times Arranged Chronologically Illustrated by Portraits Etc written by Dictionaries. - Biography and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Scarlet Letters written by Naomi Segal and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery throughout the long history of western cultures. Critics from the UK, USA and Australia, working in a variety of specialisms, have contributed to this substantial new collection of close readings and wider contextualisations. As well as focusing on the bourgeois nineteenth century as the high age of representations of adultery, the book offers historicist and psychoanalytic analyses of texts ranging from the Amphitryon myth to Fatal Attraction and The Piano .
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