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To: MUDDOG

Not Murat, but Ney. The legend is that all the men missed, he was spirited away by the Duke of Wellington (who had tried to save him from the execution all together) and went to live in North Carolina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ney

Marat was killed in Italy after an abortive attempt to retake Naples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Murat


81 posted on 05/06/2014 10:21:25 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian

Whoops...Your quote WAS from Murat, but, he wasn’t executed by the Bourbons, it was the Neapolitan King that had him killed.

Ney has a similar line, but, nothing about his face.

I beg pardon.


82 posted on 05/06/2014 10:26:10 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian

As far as I can see from your link to wikipedia, what I said is consistent with it — Murat’s last words, and he was killed by the Bourbons (a branch that ruled Naples).


87 posted on 05/06/2014 2:02:35 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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