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Joachim Murat
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Definition:[1767-1815]The "Dandy King" of Naples and the brother-in-law to Napoleon. He held various positions during the Napoleonic wars including aide-de-camp and general. He was France's Beau Brummell.
image: By François Gérard, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=264241
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Napoleon accepted the invitation and decided to use his favorite weapon, the artillery against the uprising. He ordered a young cavalry officer by the name of Joachim Murat to seize artillery and use it to repel the royalist attackers.
C. Carl Pegels. French Revolution, Napoleon and Russian War of 1812
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The officers said that either Napoleon or Murat was there, and they all gazed eagerly at this little group of horsemen. Pierre also looked at them, trying to guess which of the scarcely discernible figures was Napoleon. At last those mounted men rode away from the mound and disappeared.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
(Murat is mentioned in War and Peace 75 times)
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When Murat's travelling kitchen fell into the hands of the Russians, the saucepans were full of horse and cat flesh. Later on in the retreat, a time came when some of the starving soldiers actually preyed on the dead bodies of their comrades.
Ivan Krylov.The Crow and the Hen (footnote) (Ralston translation, 1869)
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