Blog category: Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes
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The Wreck of the Packet Ship Albion
April 21, 2017
The packet ship Albion, sailing from New York to Liverpool, was wrecked on the coast of Ireland on April 22, 1822. Of the 54 people on board, only 9 survived. Napoleonic General Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes, who appears in Napoleon in America, was among the dead. As this was the first loss suffered by a North Atlantic packet line, the disaster horrified people on both sides of the ocean. Survivors left harrowing accounts of the Albion’s final hours.
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General Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes: Unhappy in Alabama
June 20, 2014
Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes was a loyal Napoleonic cavalry commander who settled in Alabama after Napoleon’s 1815 abdication. Miserable there, he met a tragic end on the journey back to France.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte