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| | Michel Ney - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | MICHEL NEY, duke of Elchingen, prince of the Moskowa (1769-1815), marshal of France, was born at Saarlouis on the Toth of January 1769. |
 | | It was while there that, in the name of the army, he begged Napoleon to declare himself emperor, and on the establishment of the empire he was made marshal of France, the received the grand eagle of the Legion of Honour. |
 | | He was then ordered to the upper Adige, and missed the battle of Austerlitz, but was present at Jena and Eylau and led the decisive attack at Friedland. |
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