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  Joachim Murat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Murat enlisted in the cavalry at the age of 20.
Murat married Caroline Bonaparte on January 20, 1800 thus becoming a son-in-law of Letizia Ramolino as well as brother-in-law to Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon I of France, Lucien Bonaparte, Elisa Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, Pauline Bonaparte and Jérôme Bonaparte.
Murat was equally useful in Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812), and in the Battle of Leipzig (1813).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joachim_Murat   (1250 words)

  
 Napoleonic Marshals : Joachim Murat
With his courage and dash, and the marriage to Caroline Bonaparte, it was a certainty he'd become a marshal in 1804.
An important part of the French army's command, Murat was the perfect harasser of retreating enemies, but his intervention at Eylau saved the battle for Bonaparte and was arguably the high point of his military career.
Journeying to Spain in 1808, Murat was partly responsible for the uprising in that country, as his repression of the Madrid insurrection was harsh.
www.napoleonguide.com /marshal_murat.htm   (319 words)

  
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Murat knew of the massacre of the Mamelukes at Marseilles, the assassination of Brune at Avignon; he had been warned the day before by the police of Toulon that a formal order for his arrest was out; thus it was impossible that he should remain any longer in France.
Murat sent to fetch him, and in spite of his protestations he was made to descend into a boat with fifty men, and the boat was moored to the vessel.
Murat greeted his old acquaintance with pleasure; but at the first word the king perceived that he was before his judge, and that he had not come for the purpose of making a visit, but to make an official inquiry.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/2/7/5/2755/2755.txt   (14115 words)

  
 Murat
Marshal, King of Naples: in the Napoleonic chess game, Murat was the knight, the splendid warrior in extravagant attire; the impetuous and unthinking bishop; and the queen who needed proof of affection from the master in order to offer full devotion.
Murat chased the Prussians to Leipzig, fought brilliantly in the Battle of Jena on October 14, 1806 and forced Blücher to capitulate at Lübeck.
Murat the commoner proved to be a conscientious king.
uts.cc.utexas.edu /~jrubarth/gslis/lis385t.16/Napoleon/Murat.html   (1259 words)

  
 First empire - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Marshal, king of Naples,: in the Napoleonic game of chess Murat is the knight, a splendid warrior in extravagant costumes; Murat is the bishop, impetuous and unthinking; Murat is the queen, who needs proof of the affection of his master to offer his complete devotion.
Murat tasted power; he turned out to be solicitous of the well-being of his subjects.
Murat, desperate, made overtures everywhere; he wrote a cordial letter to Louis XVIII, another when Napoleon was exiled to Elba.
www.histofig.com /history/empire/personnes/france_murat_en.html   (1216 words)

  
 Book 16, Chapter 11
Murat was on the banks of the Jordan and took the enemy as they rolled towards the bridge, and with his little band performed prodigies of valor and outdid himself.
Murat was so much pleased by the homage of these simple-hearted warriors, that be distributed among them all the money he had, and all he could borrow from the officers about him, and finally his watch, and then the watches of his friends.
Murat made no reply, but reining his steed up in front of the squadrons, waved his sword over his head and dashed straight into the sharp shooters, followed by that hitherto wavering cavalry as if they had forgotten there was such a thing as danger.
www.napoleonic-literature.com /Book_16/V2C11.htm   (9445 words)

  
 Marshal Joachim Murat
Murat was sent to retrieve the artillery guns Bonaparte requested, and successfully obtained them and got them back to the general in time to defend the Directory.
Murat, in a dramatic gesture, spit out the pieces of his flesh that were no longer attached and slashed at the Turkish commander's hand, slicing off two of his fingers and disarming him of the pistol.
Murat hurried out of the room and proclaimed an order to his troops, "Grenadiers forward, throw them out!" The grenadiers moved in and chased the deputies out of the room, protecting Napoleon and completing his coup d'etat.
www.napoleonic-officers.net /web/officers/M/murat.html   (1162 words)

  
 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER NAPOLEON AND KING MURAT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Murat was born the son of an innkeeper who, after five years service in the ranks, was commissioned in the French cavalry in 1792.
In 1804 he was promoted Marshal of France, and in 1808 he became King Joachim of Naples.
Murat was a brilliant if typically reckless cavalry commander, but as an administrator he was hopelessly incompetent.
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 Wertingen : October 8, 1805 Action Report
Prince Murat and Marshal Lannes who were at different locations south of the Danube River were both ordered to attack this force.
Murat was furious that Exelmans had not yet attacked Wertingen and ordered him to return to his H.Q. hoping that Exelmans would have been more aggressive.
Murat was in no mood to hear excuses he wanted results.
www.napoleonicminiatureswargame.com /wertingen.html   (1038 words)

  
 Battle of Liebertwolkwitz, 14th October 1813   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It took place South of Leipzig between the French forces of Marshal Murat which included the Corps of Prince Poniatowski, Victor, Lauriston and Kellerman and Pajol's cavalry and the Army of Bohemia under the Russian General Wittgenstein.
Wittgenstien mistook Murats forces for a French rearguard covering a retreat and thus entered what is known as an encounter battle where a battle results from a chance encounter of opposing forces not an planned attack.
Murat was nearly captured twice but twice evaded the enemy with his usual skill and daring.
www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/battles_liebertwolkwitz.html   (328 words)

  
 Battle of Eylau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marshal Soult's corps and Marshal Murat's cavalry were the first French formations to reach Eylau, at about 14:00 on the 7th.
Murat had lost 1,500 well-trained troopers, but relieved the pressure on Augereau, St Hilaire, and Soult and staved off a Russian victory for long enough to allow Davout to take a part.
In part this was because, for the first time, Murat's men were now mounted on the best cavalry horses in Europe, freshly requisitioned in the aftermath of the conquest of Prussia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Eylau   (1669 words)

  
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General Duroc, Grand Marshal of the Palace, told all the guests in succession of the titles of Prince and Princess to be given to Joseph and Louis, and their wives, but not to the Emperor's sisters, or to their husbands.
Then on the President's invitation, Marshals Murat and Masséna raised the veils that covered the statue, and all eyes beheld the figure of Napoleon, wearing on his brow a laurel wreath, in which were mingled oak and olive leaves.
The Grand Marshal had also under his orders the governor of the palaces and the marshals; these last were charged with choosing apartments for the Emperor and the Empress, and quarters for their suite in the Imperial residences and on journeys.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext06/8cmpj10.txt   (18919 words)

  
 AUSTERLITZ.org: History trail of the Austerlitz battlefield - list of locations
The Austrian Lieutenant Marshal Liechtenstein lodged at the parish on November 19while troops camped in the town and its surroundings.
The Commander of the Austrian cavalry, Lieutenant Marshal Jan Josef of Liechtenstein, who was the owner of a large manor in South Moravia and a nearby manor in Pozořice, managed to equally match him.
The French troops under the command of Marshal Murat and Marshal Lannes, supported by Rivaud’s 1st Infantry Division from the 1st Bernadott’s Column attacked at 11 a.
www.austerlitz2005.com /en/clanek/924   (4914 words)

  
 The Marshals' Final Resting Place: Le Cimetiere du Pere-Lachais
Marshal St-Cyr's grave is possibly the grandest of all the Marshals graves.
To the left of Marshal Murat's monument is Marshal Serurier's gravetone, although Marshal Serurier is in fact intered in Invalides his body being exhumed in 1947 and placed in Invalides Crypt.
Marshal Grouchy's grave is the last Marshals' in Pere-Lachaise however there are the tombs of numerous Generals of the Napoleonic Wars and many other famous people.
www.napoleon-series.org /research/biographies/c_pere.html   (1393 words)

  
 The Battle
Having to pass through a very narrow defile, which Savary had noted was the only line of retreat for Murat's horsemen, the French general quickly deployed his regiments in front of Langwiese village, just in time to allow the retreating squadrons of French to filter through his lines and reform at the rear.
Murat rode away, cursing, and the fact of the matter was that he owed the salvation of his cavalry to the timely arrival of Savary's regiments who, together with fresh squadrons sent forward by Napoleon, had taken the pressure off Murat's jumbled troopers.
Also for Marshal Lannes to risk a whole division during almost total darkness, for no other reason than to prove to everyone on the field that he had arrived, was no more than childish bravado.
home.clara.net /graymo/heilsberg/05_battle.htm   (2610 words)

  
 Schongrabern November 16, 1805 : Action Report
On November 16, 1805 for the battle of Schöngrabern (often named Hollabrunn), Marshal Murat had under his command the 4th and 5th Corps and the Reserve Cavalry for a total of 45,806 men.
Murat came up with his vanguard and, believing that he had the whole Russian army in front of him, resorted to a ruse similar to that which had proven so successful at the crossing of the Danube.
Murat now offered the Russians a truce in the expectation of gaining time for the arrival of reinforcements.
www.napoleonicminiatureswargame.com /schongrabern.html   (1299 words)

  
 House of Ice: Napoleon Bonaparte
Marshal Murat rode into Warsaw on November 28th, 1806, and the Emperor arrived a fortnight later.
Murat was told to tell the Spainiards that he knew nothing and was waiting for the Emperor's orders.
Marshal Bessieres routed the main Spanish army at Riosecco on July 14th, killing 20,000, but General Dupont was cut off and forced to surrender at Baylen with 20,000 men.
campus.fortunecity.com /media/92/contents/napoleon.html   (2289 words)

  
 Battle of Jena-Auerstedt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Both armies were split into separate parts: Napoleon's main force at Jena consisted of Soult's IV Corps, Lannes' V Corps, Ney's VI Corps, Augereau's VII Corps, and the cavalry of Murat, about 96,000 men in total.
The battle of Jena began with the chance evening meeting of Marshal Lannes' corps and a Prussian force of 38,000 men under General Friedrich Hohenlohe.
Meanwhile, all of the good work done by marshals Augereau and Lannes was almost undone by the impatient Marshal Ney, who launched an unauthorised assault in the centre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Auerstaedt   (1317 words)

  
 AUSTERLITZ.org: Pultusk 2006 - press release
After the departure of the Russian troops from the Royal Chateau, Marshal Murat will arrive to its gate to be welcomed by the city representatives in periodical costumes.
On the French side was involved the Vth Corps of marshal Lannes and Gudin's division (under general Daultanne) from the IIIrd Corps of marshal Davout, totally some 26.000 men.
Marshal Lannes' task was to capture the town of Pultusk and the local bridge across the Narew River.
www.austerlitz.org /en/clanek/1171   (1393 words)

  
 Napoleonic Marshals : Eduoard Mortier
He was offered a generalship in 1797 but did not accept it until two years later when, after Zurich, he made an almost immediate jump to general of division.
His 5000 men were left behind by Marshal Murat's careless pursuit of the Russians after Ulm and found themselves attacked by some 40,000 enemy troops.
His next service was an unwilling one, where he had to serve at Marshal Ney's court martial.
www.napoleonguide.com /marshal_mortier.htm   (346 words)

  
 Bernadotte 1806 - Is There a Case for the Defence?
So, Murat's confusion notwithstanding, he remains unaware of the support he is to receive from Bernadotte, Bernadotte is left ignorant of the general movement of the army and can only learn that Davout is also moving to Naumburg from Murat.
Murat and Bernadotte received their orders at 0715 and, in contrast, were not on the move at all until 0900.
Unfortunately Murat, in accordance with the earlier contradictory orders of 12 October, discussed above, had sent a large part of his cavalry to reconnoitre the plain of Leipzig, with the result that neither Beaumont's dragoon Division, the Brigade of Lasalle, nor that of Milhaud would be available on 14 October 1806.
www.napoleon-series.org /military/battles/c_bern.html   (5721 words)

  
 NapoleonGames.com: Games by Operational Studies Group.
Marshal Etienne Macdonald, Duke of Tarentum Served in Italy, and commanded Armies in Rome, Naples, and the Grisons.
The Marshal, alarmed by the appearance of St. Priest on his right flank, detached Puthod’s division of V Corps, to reach Schönau on the 27th, and to detach one brigade still farther to the right to Hirschberg, whither also Ledru’s division of the XI Corps was to go.”
Leaving four corps at Dresden under Marshal Murat, Napoleon prepared to move north with the Imperial Guard, the VI or VIII Corps, and a portion of the I Cavalry Corps.
www.napoleongames.com /FourLostBattles_HistNotes.html   (5088 words)

  
 Joachim Murat Biography / Biography of Joachim Murat Biography
The French marshal Joachim Murat (1767-1815), brother-in-law of Napoleon I, served in the wars of the French Revolution and Empire.
Joachim Murat was born at La Bastide-Fortumière (Lot) on March 25, 1767.
Murat was in Paris in 1795, and he was employed by Napoleon Bonaparte on 13 Vendémiaire to aid him in putting down the rising against the Directory.
www.bookrags.com /biography-joachim-murat   (221 words)

  
 Book 22, 1805
Prince Murat is appointed lieutenant of the Emperor, commander-in-chief of the army in the absence of His Majesty.
Marshal Lannes is marching on Ludwigsburg; he can move rapidly to support you if it should be necessary.
The army of Prince Ferdinand is outflanked, and Prince Murat with the dragoons and the corps of Marshal Lannes and Marshal Ney is pursuing him.
www.napoleonic-literature.com /Book_22/1805.htm   (6962 words)

  
 The Fighting Marshals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Her meddling caused unpleasantness between Murat and the Viceroy, and an ill-feeling that would last.
Murat was, of course, completely dense, and as such Caroline envisaged herself as the ruler of France.
Sadly for her, a letter from Talleyrand to Murat discussing the plot fell into Eugene's hands, and from there to Napoleon.
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 The French Army
Army and cavalry corps were commanded by marshals, while divisions were led by generals.
The former included Eugène Beauharnais, viceroy of italy, and marshals L. Davout, M. Ney, and N. Soult, and divisional general L. St-Cyr.
The latter included marshal I. Murat and divisional generals A. Junot and E. Grouchy.
uts.cc.utexas.edu /~jrubarth/gslis/lis385t.16/Napoleon/French.html   (472 words)

  
 Volume 1, Chapter 3
Murat's horse was killed under him, mine fell in the confused rush down the steep path, and I was flung off.
The marshal had had a fire lighted, and was standing near as naked to the waist as the Christ, performing some wonderful gymnastic exercise with his arms.
Marshal Davout's infantry, however, managed to debouch from the village in spite of the resistance of the Russians, who were finally repulsed by the hot fire opened on them from the Saint-Hilaire and Legrand divisions, who pursued there for some distance.
www.napoleonic-literature.com /Book_25/Chapter_3.htm   (5313 words)

  
 Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia 1812
His flamboyant marshal Murat opposed such a violent action, especially since the Russians were withdrawing on their own initiative.
It was in the late afternoon that Eugene from the north, Ney and Murat from the south, launched a combined attack on the Raevsky Redoubt.
Not just the campaign but the army Napoleon knew was lost beyond all hope of retrieval, and on 5 December he left the command in the hands of Murat and sped on by sledge to the Polish frontier, with the intent of reaching Paris to inform and reassure the people concerning the disastrous retreat.
www.sawargamer.co.za /Articles/showArticle.asp?Art=42   (3406 words)

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