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Book Joachim Murat

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  • Author : Andrew Hilliard Atteridge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Joachim Murat written by Andrew Hilliard Atteridge and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Death of Joachim Murat

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 291 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.

Book Hadji Murat

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  • Author : Leo Tolstoy
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-10-02
  • ISBN : 0307951340
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Hadji Murat written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy’s final work—a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers—is a powerful moral fable for our time. Inspired by a historical figure Tolstoy heard about while serving in the Caucasus, this story brings to life the famed warrior Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel who has fought fiercely and courageously against the Russian empire. After a feud with his commander he defects to the Russians, only to find that he is now trusted by neither side. He is first welcomed but then imprisoned by the Russians under suspicion of being a spy, and when he hears news of his wife and son held captive by the Chechens, Murat risks all to try to save his family. In the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Hadji Murat is a thrilling and provocative portrait of a tragic figure that has lost none of its relevance.

Book Memoirs of the Reign of Murat

Download or read book Memoirs of the Reign of Murat written by P. Perodi and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Death of Murat Idrissi

Download or read book The Death of Murat Idrissi written by Tommy Wieringa and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not be available. So, when the spry Saleh presents himself as their guide and saviour, they embrace his offer. He extracts them from a tight space, only to lead them inexorably into an even tighter one: and from this far darker space there is no exit. Their tale of confinement and escape is as old as the landscapes and cultures so vividly depicted in this story of where Europe and Africa come closest to meeting, even if they never quite touch.

Book Murat

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  • Author : Alexandre Dumas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-12-13
  • ISBN : 1537806521
  • Pages : 33 pages

Download or read book Murat written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 18th June, 1815, at the very moment when the destiny of Europe was being decided at Waterloo, a man dressed like a beggar was silently following the road from Toulon to Marseilles. Arrived at the entrance of the Gorge of Ollioulles, he halted on a little eminence from which he could see all the surrounding country; then either because he had reached the end of his journey, or because, before attempting that forbidding, sombre pass which is called the Thermopylae of Provence, he wished to enjoy the magnificent view which spread to the southern horizon a little longer, he went and sat down on the edge of the ditch which bordered the road, turning his back on the mountains which rise like an amphitheatre to the north of the town, and having at his feet a rich plain covered with tropical vegetation, exotics of a conservatory, trees and flowers quite unknown in any other part of France.

Book Joachim Murat

Download or read book Joachim Murat written by A. Hilliard Atteridge and published by . This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon's gorgeous centaur-the life of Murat Joachim Murat has come to epitomise the beau ideal cavalryman. Indeed, in the decades following the Napoleonic era, as a horse soldier excelled to extraordinary prominence, the name of Murat was often considered as analogous. In reality nobody could come close in stature and performance. Murat was one of many young men who saw the French Revolution as an opportunity to prosper in influence, power, status and wealth. An unabashed self publicist, his gorgeous uniforms were singular and exceptional even in an age when the dandy in military uniform was the norm. His ambition was insatiable and in this was the root of his downfall, for he lacked the intelligence and moderation to consolidate his advantages. Yet, Murat rose to be a soldier of the highest rank, through marriage a member of Napoleon's own family, he was elevated to the aristocracy as Duke of Berg and in time crowned King of Naples. Though, like many of his calling, he was no military mastermind Murat was a reliable lieutenant to Napoleon often achieving-through deeds of daring-far more than other senior officers could for their emperor. Above all there could be no doubt about the quality of Murat's personal courage. He led from the front and latterly rode into the fiercest melees armed only with a riding crop. Though he came from a different and lesser mould than his master Napoleon, Murat fatally shared his weakness for conceits and hubris and, as with Napoleon himself, poor judgment ended his career ignominiously before a firing squad of his former subjects. Atteridge's biography is a well regarded classic and is highly recommended. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Book Caroline Murat

Download or read book Caroline Murat written by Joan Bear and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any normal family Caroline Bonaparte would have seemed a prodigy; even beside her brother Napoleaon she holds her own. Beautiful, and intelligent, she possesed courage, determination and political acumen appropriate for the council chamber rather than the salon. When she married the handsome and swashbuckling.

Book Five Years of My Life

Download or read book Five Years of My Life written by Murat Kurnaz and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Doidge s Western Counties  Illustrated Annual for

Download or read book Doidge s Western Counties Illustrated Annual for written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Catalogue

Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

Download or read book Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte written by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Secularism

Download or read book The Politics of Secularism written by Murat Akan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions of modernity—or alternative and multiple modernities—often hinge on the question of secularism, especially how it travels outside its original European context. Too often, attempts to answer this question either imagine a universal model derived from the history of Western Europe, which neglects the experience of much of the world, or emphasize a local, non-European context that limits the potential for comparison. In The Politics of Secularism, Murat Akan reframes the question of secularism, exploring its presence both outside and inside Europe and offering a rich empirical account of how it moves across borders and through time. Akan uses France and Turkey to analyze political actors' comparative discussions of secularism, struggles for power, and historical contextual constraints at potential moments of institutional change. France and Turkey are critical sites of secularism: France exemplifies European political modernity, and Turkey has long been the model of secularism in a Muslim-majority country. Akan analyzes prominent debates in both countries on topics such as the visibility of the headscarf and other religious symbols, religion courses in the public school curriculum, and state salaries for clerics and imams. Akan lays out the institutional struggles between three distinct political currents—anti-clericalism, liberalism, and what he terms state-civil religionism—detailing the nuances of how political movements articulate the boundary between the secular and the religious. Disputing the prevalent idea that diversity is a new challenge to secularism and focusing on comparison itself as part of the politics of secularism, this book makes a major contribution to understanding secular politics and its limits.

Book Pain

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  • Author : Murat Aydede
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2005-12-02
  • ISBN : 0262012219
  • Pages : 443 pages

Download or read book Pain written by Murat Aydede and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-12-02 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading philosophers and scientists examine the puzzles of pain and consider how the study of pain might help us to have a better understanding of the larger issues of consciousness and psychological research.

Book The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time

Download or read book The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Outlook

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  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 916 pages

Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: