Salvete Omnes,
yesterday but in 1767AD France's most dashing cavalry commander Joachim Murat, marshal of France and king of Naples, was born in France to his parents, Pierre and Jeanne nee Loubières. From one dashing raid or charge to another had gone the years of his own Napoleonic epic.
Trying to carve his own realm he had abandoned Napoleon and eventually Joachim Murat was shot by a firing squad in Calabria, Kingdom of Naples, in 1815AD.
I gathered some period and later historic imagery to recall this dashing and flamboyant horseman's life and deeds.
Ave, Murat.
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| battle at Abukir, 1799 |
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Murat was married to Caroline Bonaparte, also born on March 25, and they had 4 children, and their family line still lives on in France and the US. His descendants included a horseman and cavalry general Louis Napoléon Achille Charles Murat (his great-grandson, born to a Mingrelian princess and French father in 1872 and died 1943), who was an officer in the Russian Imperial army and fought against the Germans in World War I and later on the side of the White Russians against the Bolsheviks etc.
Valete
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