Michel Ney

Ney fell at the first volley with six balls in his breast, three in the head and neck, and one in the arm, and in a quarter of an hour the body was removed; "plain Michel Ney" as he had said to the secretary enunciating his title in reading his sentence, "plain Michel Ney, soon to be a little dust."

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

Lucky it was that on that retrograde march that a Michel Ney turned up to save the retreat from a total rout, if not extermination.

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

Michel Ney was born on January 10, 1769, in the small town of

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Michel Ney, Duc d'Elchingen, the grandson of the great marshal, when I met him in

Maximilian in Mexico Sara Yorke Stevenson 1884

* An officer wrote me during the Franco-Prussian war that at Rezonville, in 1870, when brilliantly charging at the head of his men, Michel Ney, then a colonel of dragoons, received three sabre-cuts over his head and face, and after killing five Prussians rolled under his wounded horse.

Maximilian in Mexico Sara Yorke Stevenson 1884

Michel Ney -- Duke of Elchingen, 1769-1815, French revolutionary and

History of the United States, Volume 4 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

Ney fell at the first volley with six balls in his breast, three in the head and neck, and one in the arm, and in a quarter of an hour the body was removed; "plain Michel Ney" as he had said to the secretary enunciating his title in reading his sentence, "plain Michel Ney, soon to be a little dust."

Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

[Michel Ney, Styled by Napoleon the "bravest of the brave," was born 1769, at Sarre-Louis (now in Prussia), son of a cooper.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

(1769-1815) [Footnote 3: Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.] [Illustration: Michel Ney.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

-- [Michel Ney, Styled by Napoleon the "bravest of the brave," was born 1769, at Sarre-Louis (now in Prussia), son of a cooper.

Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895