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    The House of Bernadotte is the royal family of Sweden, founded there in 1818 by King Charles XIV John of Sweden. It was also the royal family of Norway...
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    Nicolas Joseph Maison, marquis de Maison (French pronunciation: [nikɔla ʒozɛf mɛzɔ̃]; 19 December 1771 – 13 February 1840) was a French military officer...
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    enclave in the Kingdom of Naples) in succession to Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, by an Imperial Decree. The Prince of Pontecorvo title is still used to...
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    own initiative, Bernadotte's chief of staff General of Brigade Nicolas Joseph Maison alerted the I Corps center and right flank. Maison directed General...
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    under Crown Prince Charles John (the former French marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte), and Austria under Field Marshal Karl von Schwarzenberg. Already busy...
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  • Bernadotte and the Fall of Napoleon. P. 90. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket (1930). The Amazing Career of Bernadotte 1763–1844...
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    Marie-Louise of Austria. In 1810 he was sent to Hamburg when Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte left for Sweden; Davout was entrusted by Napoleon with the task of organizing...
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    Evangelic Religion and being Freemasons. All Princes and Kings of the Bernadotte dynasty, the royal house of Sweden are from baptism, incorporate parts...
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    Aiming to capture the Swedes, Bernadotte sent one battalion to the mouth of the Trave and another detachment under Maison to Schlutup, which is on the...
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    Battle of Halle on 17 October 1806 a French corps led by Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte fought the Prussian Reserve under Eugene Frederick Henry, Duke of Württemberg...
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  • A third Coalition body, Army of the North led by Prince Jean Baptiste Bernadotte sent major elements into the Low Countries to drive out the Imperial French...
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    to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (later Charles XIV, King of Sweden). French: Maison Bonaparte Italian and Corsican: Casa di Buonaparte...
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    The couple had one son, Prince Lennart, Duke of Småland, later Count Bernadotte af Wisborg. The marriage was unhappy and ended in divorce in 1914. During...
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    was reportedly charmed by the new elected heir, Charles John Bernadotte. As Bernadotte was very eager to legitimize himself in the eyes of the public...
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    Roederer in 1833. It remains as one of the few independent and family-run maisons de champagne (champagne houses). Over 3.5 million bottles of Louis Roederer...
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    marriage alliance with Austria and the election of the French Marshal Bernadotte as Crown Prince of Sweden as attempts to contain Russia. In December 1810...
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    he fought at the Battle of Halle where he was defeated by Marshal Jean Bernadotte (later became King Charles XIV John of Sweden). Carlsruhe became the permanent...
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    Augustenburg becoming chosen by Swedes and then dying, after which Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France and Prince of Ponte Corvo, was elected. Their relationship...
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    accepted by the Riksdag of the Estates in August, was Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte. House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg Prinds Christian...
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  • operation of the Swedish Red Cross that had been negotiated by Folke Bernadotte. In 1973, she published Ravensbruck: An eyewitness account of a women's...
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    however, was reconsidered and withdrawn two weeks later and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France and Prince of Ponte Corvo, was elected instead. Frederick...
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    announcement from the Baden court, which caused protests from Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, who believed it to have been instigated by Amalie, as she had a reputation...
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    complete the picture. Musée Bernadotte [fr]: The modest home of a cooper that saw the birth and growth of Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, who became Marshal of...
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  • deemed an army (for psychological reasons). On 17 June 1805 Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was made Governor of Hanover, and on 29 August 1805 took control of the...
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    Castiglione (1757–1816), Marshal of the Empire in 1804 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (1763–1844), Prince of Pontecorvo, King of Sweden and Norway under the...
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    convince Napoleon's former Marshal, and Swedish Crown Prince Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, later King Charles XIV John of Sweden, to move his Army of the North...
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    military careers there. An unfounded legend adds the name of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. On July 27, 1830, Captain Flandin, at the head of 200 citizens, of whom...
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  • Police in Paris, had sent an order in the name of Napoleon to Marshal Bernadotte commanding French occupation troops in Hanover. A detachment of 250 French...
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    yearned to crush Napoleon at the earliest opportunity. Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, the crown prince of Sweden and a former French marshal, led a third Allied...
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    first elected to the throne of Sweden, followed by the French Marshal Bernadotte. During the Napoleonic Wars, he tried to maintain neutrality; however...
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