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Tag: 1809

“It is for us to follow and obey”

On October 4, 2022October 4, 2022 By Sarah1 Comment

A little interlude before I get back to translating Vandal: three letters from Napoleon’s chief of staff, Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier, to Murat. The first letter is written weeks before Murat was officially crowned King of Naples; the other two are several months into his reign, carrying into the 1809 campaign, which Murat was forced to …

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