"Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you. I protest against my condemnation. I have fought a hundred battles for France, and not one against her… Soldiers Fire!" Nay, possibly apocryphal
@@herojomladine Come see whats left it? And a despotic fascist regime to show for it? Be sure to thank NATO and the western politicians for their service.
Screaming "come and see how a marshal of France meets his death!" after having several horses killed under him will always be one of the coolest things ever said
@@scottdick4596 Wouldn't say useless but rather say that Ney's tactics were high-risk high-reward. Sometimes it would save the day, sometimes it would ruin it.
He was absolutely beloved by his men. Accounts talk about how he could inspire men to perform superhuman feats simply with his presence. Such a cool guy, and one that came from humble upbringings.
Ney is by far my favorite of all of Napoleon's Marshals He was not fiercely loyal to the throne or whoever sits on it, only to France itself Although he maybe one of the most controversial commander to a point of recklessness, it was his bravery in the battlefield that made him a legend
@@francoiselicker4775 King Louis XVIII was the puppet, restored on the throne by British bayonets, he did not have and could not have his own opinion. The truth is that the winners of Waterloo - the British government, and duke of Wellington in particular, insisted on execution of Marshal Ney as an example.
@@Devvitclegend says, he was the last man to cross the bridge. Truth or not, his brigade was the bottom of the rearguard and he definitely expose himself to the last skirmish of the retreat with his heroic behavior backed up by the survivors.
In their own time, Murat was the rock star of the group. I get the sense though that among historians & history enthusiasts, Ney now occupies that role. My favourite, too, followed closely by Suchet.
@@ddc2957 during the Italian campaign massena seemed unstoppable and as proactive as Murat and ney, hence why he got command of the army in Spain and not ney or anyone else.
@@hgodvilla00 Ney was always brilliant when he was blinded like a race horse. He was an exceptional tactical commander, but it was Napoleon's or Moreau vision which brought ultimate victory.
Ney didn't make any tactical blunders at Waterloo. Quite the opposite. He won the battle of Waterloo with his attack forcing Wellington into square. Proving the success. Napoleon didn't want Ney to steal his glory by acting conform the plan he and Ney had coordinated. Napoleon withheld his reserve which he commited too late. Ney knew that Napoleon had betrayed him. Ney expected Napoleon would send in infantry and artilley and men to take over the allied artillery which Ney correctly hadden't spiked. Of course Ney went mad knowing Napoleon had thus lost the battle he had won. Ney was shot, and Napoleon wrote the book weak historeans still believe.
I would have sympathised more with the Bourbons, but it was a crime to get rid of this man. What a truly brave heart Ney possessed. He should have been spared.
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I love his portrait with the musket at Kovno I think, walking between the men. Ney exemplified what I love about most of Napoleon's Marshalls. They were largely men that would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the Revolution. They weren't pretentious, they were there to kick ass.
I imagine this can be said for a lot of people as well. How many men of fame could have been made if the times were more chaotic; don’t get me wrong I love peace and stability, I don’t want to die, but imagine how many people went unnoticed cause they were born at the wrong time!
So much went wrong before & during the battle of Waterloo I think too much is pinned on Ney by some. Napoléon made several unforced errors during the campaign, his army was swimming with spies, & then there’s Grouchy.
This guy is bad ass epitomized... btw, how tf has this channel not blown up yet in this space sitting pretty as a diamond in a sea of low quality AI voiced crap shorts??
He is beloved by his men because he doesn’t use his rank to hide in the security of being a higher rank, he stands along with all the other common men which are the ones who really compose his unit and the napoleonic army, seeing a marshal of such value in the frontline is something I believe no one would do even in those times.
that village in Lorraine had been annexed to Prussia during the redrawing of borders made at Vienna in 1814-1815. so he was "technically a Prussian by birthplace".
Sarrelouis, his town of birth, and the Lorraine duchy were incorporate in the Kingdom of France since 1680 ... French was even the main language of Sarrelouis. So Michel Ney was Lorrain and French, but clearly not Prussian.
I always feel its a bit harsh to overlook some of Ney's blunders, Its easy to see what happened once its in the past, but on the field with basically no long range comms except instruments and horseback It would be hard af to Command and coordinate all that
Hello, everyone ! I've often passed by his modest house of birth, which still stands in the small (today German) town of Saarlouis, that was once founded at the river Saar ( Saare in French) as a military fortress by French King, Louis XIV., and named after its royal founder. I live very near this small town. The house, which by happy coincidence has survived the heavy devastations of the town during the last months of WW2, is marked with a plaque honoring Michel Ney. The plague reads in French: "Içi est né Maréchal Ney!" Today there is a popular restaurant in it, the 'Aubèrge Maréchal Ney'. In 1815, the year of Ney's execution, by decision of the Viennese Congres the once French exclave had eventually become a part of Prussia and today it is a "Kreisstadt" in the smallest of the 14 federal states of Germany, the Saarland. ( Actually with the two city-states, Hamburg and Bremen, there are 16 German federal states.) Thus it came that Saarlouis is the one and only city in Germany, which is actually named after a French monarch. In 1937 it was re-baptized with a "germanized" name by the N@zis without the local population being asked about this. So from 1937 until 1946 it was called "Saarlautern". Shortly after the end of WW2 and under the influence of the French, who had occupied and later also economically integrated ( but not in the sense of an annexion ! ) the Saar region into France as a part of reparations for WW2 for twelve years until 1957, the city was re-named Saarlouis again. When in 1957 the population of the Saar region in a referendum once again ( as in 1935 ) had decided for a re-union with (West-)Germany, the city decided to keep the traditional name after the re-union. Today Saarlouis is only a few miles away from the border to France and is often visited by French visitors, who would come regularly for shopping or visiting the many pubs in the town on weekends, probably a left-over from its past as a soldiers town. Needless to say that the people of Saarlouis are still very proud of the French heritage of their town and its most famous son, Michel Ney, 'The Bravest of the Brave', in particular, who by irony of history has become a maréchal in the armies of Napoleon. You can still find quite a number of namesakes in and around Saarlouis, possibly distant relatives of the maréchal. Kind regards !
Btw. Michel Ney himself and his ancestors were of German descent, but since he was born in the French exclave Saarlouis, he was a French citizen by birth. He grew up bilingual (French/German). Most of his ancestors were born in the small German village, Ensdorf, in direct neighborhood of Saarlouis. His great-grandfather, Paul Neu ( 1670 - 1733, born and died in Ensdorf ) still bore the German family name, Neu, which is German for "New". He was married to Anna Maria Frantz (1675 - 1758, * & + in Ensdorf). His son, Michel's grandfather, Mathias Ney (1700 - 1780) was still born in Ensdorf, but like his son Pierre, he had changed the family name to "Ney", when they had moved to the French exclave Saarlouis, probably to give the name a more French appearance. Inspite this, the meaning of the name remained the same, since "Ney" is in fact only an old-German derivation of the word "Neu" ("New"), but it surely sounds more French. Also Michel Ney's father, Pierre ( 1738 - 1826 ), was still born in Ensdorf. He survived his famous son about 16 years. After Saarlouis had became a Prussian territory in 1815 he moved to Janville la Malgrange in Lorraine, where he died. He was married to Margarethe Greveldinger (1736 - 1791),bwho was from Büdingen in the Saarland. Michel Ney (1769 - 1809) had entered a French Husar regiment as early as 1788. Obviously he strongly identified himself with France and the ideals of the French enlightment: liberté, egalité , fraternité. Only one year later the French Revolution would start. Btw. he wasn't the only high-ranking officer in the French Armies from Saarlouis. Actually 12 generals in Napoleon's armies had come frome here. Since all territories on the left side of the Rhine, including the German ones, had been annected by France in 1797 (until the restauration in 1815) and because there was an universal conscription, it happened, that many Saarlander, whose descendants today are Germans again, like myself, became French citizens, who had to fight in the French Revolution armies, either by force or by personal belief in the political ideals of the French Revolution. Kind regards !
Wealth and pragmatic success is temporary, history and words is forever . I mean that weather the end result of this wars ended in a disaster for France, in the long run we will always remember this as the highlight of this country
You can see the pride in his eyes sometime pride blinds you like at the battle of austerlitz when ney charged and was surrounded but then rescued by the imperial guard but i consider ney top 5 of the marashalls and number 1 for morale
During the retreat, Ney had found a 5 year old boy abandoned by his mother lying in the snow off the road, Ney attempted twice giving it back to her before he was abandoned twice. So Ney gave the baby to a woman who adopted him, the baby and the new mother survived the retreat. The woman who cried out that she would live to see France and the baby would not, did not survive.
I read that his sentence was carried out by the French court and his lawyer argued that because he was not born in France, he should not be subject to French laws that way. Dude straight up threw his lawyer's attempts to save his life out the window by saying he would never go against France. And the rest is history...
I want one of those fancy threaded coats that dude was wearing when the narrator was telling of his promotion to General. Shyte looks fancy as all hell.
During the French retreat from moscow, there was a cut off, & surrounded French unit 5 miles back, Ney gave the order to retrace their steps back into Russia, Ney's French fought the Russian's back, & rescued their countrymen!
Battle of Waterloo wasn’t even his fault technically. Napoleon was told that the fields were muddy from prior night rainfall…due to a volcano erupting and sending fumes and gas and air all the way from Indonesia(history daily podcast)
Napoleon sacrificed many great Marshal's indeed Ney was one of the best and respected that even the enemy admired the commander that stood till his last breath. History will never forget the brave heroic men that die for patriotism and their motherland. Russia will never fall and this was the exception..may there name live forever for the cause of two countries bring good men to die for nothing.
IN those Tumultuous Year's & Thier Decade's of War n Upheavel? He was an Exceptional Gifted Man, & Officer. That Ugh must've, First aquired the Trust & Loyalty of His Men. On the Smallest Unit's Scale? Then took it with Him all the Way to the Larger formations of Division's or Corp Level. Where His Military Eye of Genius, & that of the then rash upcoming Napoleon. Could Weld it Like a Thunder Bolt of ⚡⚡which too Destroy His Foes with, on those Various Battlefield's. Where Quick Direct n Very Decieve Decisions. Were absolutely, key 🗝️🔐 n Necessary for the Ultimate Victories that They then Accomplished Together during those Times. His Nickname Marshall Ney The Brave. Was thus Given To Him, for those Reasons and His Loyalty too France above All Esle. Thanks for Sharing as Always. 👍👍💙🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💙🤍❤️👍👍🐎🐎
COVERING THE BERESINA RETREAT ONLY WORKED BECAUSE OF THE HIGHLY DISCIPLINED SWISS REGIMENTS which were the only troops still able to fight and getting organized.
Ney beat Wellington on atleast a couple of occassion(Pombal, Redinha). It's difficult to comprehend how he's the same man who led the cavalry against Allied infantry squares without any artillery support, and even nails to disable the enemy guns of Waterloo. His fall quickly followed Napoleon's.
His command of the rearguard as Wellington pursued Masséna’s army through Spain is astoundingly superb, & sadly not (yet?) deeply discussed by Epic History. Without Ney’s efforts it’s hard to see Wellington falling short of destroying Masséna’s demoralised forces, as he did.
He ordered the cavalry charge on the false basis the British were running - they weren't, they were simply withdrawing a few yards to avoid bombardment. When Ney reached the ridge, he discovered the British formed up in Square awaiting Charge. The French cavalry was subsequently decimated. Ney NEVER defeated Wellington in the field.
A fearless man who faced the enemies of his country and his Emperor for more than a decade, and his fate was met at the hands of his own soldiers. A tragedy worthy of a play lol
I recall Marshal Ney being executed by a firing squad after realigning himself with The Emperor Napoleon after his escape from Elba. It was just months after the defeat at Waterloo
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Interestingly, there was a man who arrived in North Carolina not long after Waterloo, who became a schoolteacher and claimed to have been 'Ney of France', telling people he'd faked his execution and escaped to America. He became a local celebrity. When he heard the news of Napoleon's death in 1821, he cut his own throat in distress - though he survived, living well into the 1840s.
Regretfully, a well-known story of the faked execution and miraculous survival of Marshal Ney is a wishful thinking. I sincerely suggest to everyone to read the serious historical books as well as the memoirs of his contemporaries to understand, why this version of his escape to America is nothing more than a fairy tale (despite I heartily wish it would be truth...).
Regrettably, this well-known story about the miraculous survival and escape to USA of Marshal Ney was nothing more as a fairy tail, a wishful thinking 😢
None of them had the battlefield tactical genius. Ney and Murat were brave, naturally, as cavalry officers. Davout was stern and tough unyielding. Lannes was energetic and brave, an infantryman after all.
Would have won Waterloo and lost Paris. Napoleonic France lacked a general staff. Success dependent on good generals having a good day. By Waterloo Napoleon was short of good generals and proper staff officers. Prussians had average generals and a good general staff. Lost the battle of light and a few days later are cutting into Napoleons flank at Waterloo.
As a marshal he made some tactical blunders, but as officer he didnt in fact he had a very good state of service before he became general. Wellington could give him grace after the trial but he refuse to. I read this on Richard aldington book on Wellington.
I've read that the cavalry attacks at Waterloo and his less than stellar command the day before at Quatre Bras was quite possibly because he was suffering from severe PTSD by that point brought on chiefly by fighting that rearguard in Russia
I've heard so many comments about how weak and cowardly the French are over the decades that I started to accept that assessment of them - reluctantly. But no more! I have my issues with the French and how they abused Haiti. Still, I will not cave in to the comical remarks made about the French. I recently learned that Napoleon's rise was partly due to monarchies in Europe intending to thwart democracy and republican government by bringing their wayward sister (France) back in line. All these years, I thought Napoleon was the aggressor - not responding to the aggression of others. The Age of Metternich - that I did grasp from History classes: striving to maintain the balance of power among nations. The French are not cowards - nor are they weak. And America is still grateful for LaFayette....
Tactically excellent, yes. His rearguard command in Russia gets all the attention, but people should acquaint themselves with his defense of the guard as Wellington pursued him through Spain. Absolutely spectacular performance.
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"Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you. I protest against my condemnation. I have fought a hundred battles for France, and not one against her… Soldiers Fire!" Nay, possibly apocryphal
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Broke my heart & I never even met the man. That’s not just a great story, that’s great storytelling - with thanks to Epic History.
One of the great tragedies of post-Napoleonic France.
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@@herojomladine Come see whats left it? And a despotic fascist regime to show for it? Be sure to thank NATO and the western politicians for their service.
Screaming "come and see how a marshal of France meets his death!" after having several horses killed under him will always be one of the coolest things ever said
A lion but tactically usless
@@scottdick4596 Wouldn't say useless but rather say that Ney's tactics were high-risk high-reward. Sometimes it would save the day, sometimes it would ruin it.
He wasn’t the sharpest sabre in the armoury 😂
I don’t know, “I’ll show you that before I was Marshall I was a grenadier” goes pretty hard too
@@KingOfScipii_Online Not doubting his bravery in the slightest but he got his ideas on loyalty from nappy.
“Ah, unfortunate Ney! So many times exposed to enemy bullets, you were destined for French bullets.” Victor Hugo
The rest of Europe could not kill him, so France had to do it herself.
He was absolutely beloved by his men. Accounts talk about how he could inspire men to perform superhuman feats simply with his presence. Such a cool guy, and one that came from humble upbringings.
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Apart from the ones that shot him.
Just like Joe Biden. 🤓
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@@oatdilemma6395 I’m glad you liked it.
Ney is by far my favorite of all of Napoleon's Marshals
He was not fiercely loyal to the throne or whoever sits on it, only to France itself
Although he maybe one of the most controversial commander to a point of recklessness, it was his bravery in the battlefield that made him a legend
Ce n'est pas l'avis du roi qui s'est vengé lâchement.
@@francoiselicker4775 King Louis XVIII was the puppet, restored on the throne by British bayonets, he did not have and could not have his own opinion.
The truth is that the winners of Waterloo - the British government, and duke of Wellington in particular, insisted on execution of Marshal Ney as an example.
"Wait for my orders, It will be my last to you" is cold as hell
Dude was the last man to leave Russia 🇷🇺 what a GOAT 🐐
Sure he was…
@@Devvitclegend says, he was the last man to cross the bridge. Truth or not, his brigade was the bottom of the rearguard and he definitely expose himself to the last skirmish of the retreat with his heroic behavior backed up by the survivors.
He may have been. It certainly wasn’t nappy, he had run away long before.
Lost😂😂😂😂.
Come to fight.
Ney is my favorite of napoleon’s marshals.
In their own time, Murat was the rock star of the group. I get the sense though that among historians & history enthusiasts, Ney now occupies that role. My favourite, too, followed closely by Suchet.
Agreed! Baffles me how Ney became the “fall guy” for his execution. He deserves his own movie, not a fictionalized account.
Apeciate him,but my Favoriten is Davout!Irone marshal😊
@@ddc2957 during the Italian campaign massena seemed unstoppable and as proactive as Murat and ney, hence why he got command of the army in Spain and not ney or anyone else.
Same here. There's a great biography of him by A. Hilliard Atteridge. Highly recommended.
Damn that man was so Courageous.
Even when he knew he will die he didn't leave his motherland. I wish i had courage like a Ney😢😢😢😢.
In your own way, in your own life perhaps you do/have or will my friend. 😊
“What one man can do, another can do.”
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His last words: "wait for my order..."
He was a real leader...
I guess the firing squad didn’t wait for the order then
@@akis854 Someone irrelevant with weak trolling skills hasn’t read books on the subject.
Neys waterloo's attacks are examples of his extreme bravery and overconfidence.
Actually... Ney wasnt really nothing "overconfideht". If something, It was the opposite.
He was totally shell-shocked as a result of his military service by the time he took command of the calvary at Waterloo.
@@hgodvilla00 The horrors in Russia alone would be enough to devastate someone, never mind everything else. I can believe that.
@@hgodvilla00 Ney was always brilliant when he was blinded like a race horse. He was an exceptional tactical commander, but it was Napoleon's or Moreau vision which brought ultimate victory.
Ney didn't make any tactical blunders at Waterloo. Quite the opposite. He won the battle of Waterloo with his attack forcing Wellington into square. Proving the success. Napoleon didn't want Ney to steal his glory by acting conform the plan he and Ney had coordinated.
Napoleon withheld his reserve which he commited too late. Ney knew that Napoleon had betrayed him. Ney expected Napoleon would send in infantry and artilley and men to take over the allied artillery which Ney correctly hadden't spiked.
Of course Ney went mad knowing Napoleon had thus lost the battle he had won.
Ney was shot, and Napoleon wrote the book weak historeans still believe.
"Wait For My Order, Will Be My Last To You" -Marshall May
Words said Like a true warrior
I would have sympathised more with the Bourbons, but it was a crime to get rid of this man. What a truly brave heart Ney possessed. He should have been spared.
Il aurait fallu avoir de l'honneur chez les "aristocrates ".!Seules leurs fortunes les intéressaient.
He wasn't the best marshal,
but he's my favorite marshal.
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Hardly a mystery given the quality.
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I love his portrait with the musket at Kovno I think, walking between the men. Ney exemplified what I love about most of Napoleon's Marshalls. They were largely men that would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the Revolution. They weren't pretentious, they were there to kick ass.
I imagine this can be said for a lot of people as well. How many men of fame could have been made if the times were more chaotic; don’t get me wrong I love peace and stability, I don’t want to die, but imagine how many people went unnoticed cause they were born at the wrong time!
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Marshall Ney was a man that knew no fear. 💯💯💯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💥💥💥
A brave man who cared for nothing but his moral compass and facts.
So much went wrong before & during the battle of Waterloo I think too much is pinned on Ney by some. Napoléon made several unforced errors during the campaign, his army was swimming with spies, & then there’s Grouchy.
1769, a year for the births of a number of European generals notable for war : Wellington, Napoleon , Ney, Soult, . . .
This guy is bad ass epitomized... btw, how tf has this channel not blown up yet in this space sitting pretty as a diamond in a sea of low quality AI voiced crap shorts??
He is beloved by his men because he doesn’t use his rank to hide in the security of being a higher rank, he stands along with all the other common men which are the ones who really compose his unit and the napoleonic army, seeing a marshal of such value in the frontline is something I believe no one would do even in those times.
He was so loyal to France, that he refused to be judge as an Prussian as he was born in Prussia, there is few brave and loyal gesture like this one
He was not born in Prussia though, at the time of his birth, Lorraine was part of France and still is.
that village in Lorraine had been annexed to Prussia during the redrawing of borders made at Vienna in 1814-1815. so he was "technically a Prussian by birthplace".
Sarrelouis, his town of birth, and the Lorraine duchy were incorporate in the Kingdom of France since 1680 ... French was even the main language of Sarrelouis. So Michel Ney was Lorrain and French, but clearly not Prussian.
Vortex he was being called a Prussian by his lawyer as a means of defence, nothing more. Ney rejected it though.
@@ddc2957 Oh, didn't no about that. Thanks
God this is so well made
How he survived the rear guard action from Russia is incomprehensible
He was a wonderful soldier and great man.
I always feel its a bit harsh to overlook some of Ney's blunders, Its easy to see what happened once its in the past, but on the field with basically no long range comms except instruments and horseback It would be hard af to Command and coordinate all that
You know your great when spoken about so highly by napoleon
Hello, everyone !
I've often passed by his modest house of birth, which still stands in the small (today German) town of Saarlouis, that was once founded at the river Saar ( Saare in French) as a military fortress by French King, Louis XIV., and named after its royal founder.
I live very near this small town.
The house, which by happy coincidence has survived the heavy devastations of the town during the last months of WW2, is marked with a plaque honoring Michel Ney.
The plague reads in French:
"Içi est né Maréchal Ney!"
Today there is a popular restaurant in it, the 'Aubèrge Maréchal Ney'.
In 1815, the year of Ney's execution, by decision of the Viennese Congres the once French exclave had eventually become a part of Prussia and today it is a "Kreisstadt" in the smallest of the 14 federal states of Germany, the Saarland.
( Actually with the two city-states, Hamburg and Bremen, there are 16 German federal states.)
Thus it came that Saarlouis is the one and only city in Germany, which is actually named after a French monarch.
In 1937 it was re-baptized with a "germanized" name by the N@zis without the local population being asked about this.
So from 1937 until 1946 it was called "Saarlautern".
Shortly after the end of WW2 and under the influence of the French, who had occupied and later also economically integrated ( but not in the sense of an annexion ! ) the Saar region into France as a part of reparations for WW2 for twelve years until 1957, the city was re-named Saarlouis again.
When in 1957 the population of the Saar region in a referendum once again ( as in 1935 ) had decided for a re-union with (West-)Germany, the city decided to keep the traditional name after the re-union.
Today Saarlouis is only a few miles away from the border to France and is often visited by French visitors, who would come regularly for shopping or visiting the many pubs in the town on weekends, probably a left-over from its past as a soldiers town.
Needless to say that the people of Saarlouis are still very proud of the French heritage of their town and its most famous son, Michel Ney, 'The Bravest of the Brave', in particular, who by irony of history has become a maréchal in the armies of Napoleon.
You can still find quite a number of namesakes in and around Saarlouis, possibly distant relatives of the maréchal.
Kind regards !
Btw. Michel Ney himself and his ancestors were of German descent, but since he was born in the French exclave Saarlouis, he was a French citizen by birth. He grew up bilingual (French/German).
Most of his ancestors were born in the small German village, Ensdorf, in direct neighborhood of Saarlouis.
His great-grandfather,
Paul Neu
( 1670 - 1733, born and died in Ensdorf ) still bore the German family name, Neu, which is German for "New".
He was married to Anna Maria Frantz (1675 - 1758, * & + in Ensdorf).
His son, Michel's grandfather, Mathias Ney (1700 - 1780) was still born in Ensdorf, but like his son Pierre, he had changed the family name to "Ney", when they had moved to the French exclave Saarlouis, probably to give the name a more French appearance.
Inspite this, the meaning of the name remained the same, since "Ney" is in fact only an old-German derivation of the word "Neu" ("New"), but it surely sounds more French.
Also Michel Ney's father,
Pierre ( 1738 - 1826 ), was still born in Ensdorf.
He survived his famous son about 16 years.
After Saarlouis had became a Prussian territory in 1815 he moved to Janville la Malgrange in Lorraine, where he died.
He was married to Margarethe Greveldinger (1736 - 1791),bwho was from Büdingen in the Saarland.
Michel Ney (1769 - 1809) had entered a French Husar regiment as early as 1788.
Obviously he strongly identified himself with France and the ideals of the French enlightment: liberté, egalité , fraternité.
Only one year later the French Revolution would start.
Btw. he wasn't the only high-ranking officer in the French Armies from Saarlouis.
Actually 12 generals in Napoleon's armies had come frome here.
Since all territories on the left side of the Rhine, including the German ones, had been annected by France in 1797 (until the restauration in 1815) and because there was an universal conscription, it happened, that many Saarlander, whose descendants today are Germans again, like myself, became French citizens, who had to fight in the French Revolution armies, either by force or by personal belief in the political ideals of the French Revolution.
Kind regards !
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Wealth and pragmatic success is temporary, history and words is forever . I mean that weather the end result of this wars ended in a disaster for France, in the long run we will always remember this as the highlight of this country
The narrator makes me want to listen!
You can see the pride in his eyes sometime pride blinds you like at the battle of austerlitz when ney charged and was surrounded but then rescued by the imperial guard but i consider ney top 5 of the marashalls and number 1 for morale
During the retreat, Ney had found a 5 year old boy abandoned by his mother lying in the snow off the road, Ney attempted twice giving it back to her before he was abandoned twice. So Ney gave the baby to a woman who adopted him, the baby and the new mother survived the retreat. The woman who cried out that she would live to see France and the baby would not, did not survive.
This man was brave, Ney, the bravest of the brave!
This guy had balls of steel!
you can come to fight.
I read that his sentence was carried out by the French court and his lawyer argued that because he was not born in France, he should not be subject to French laws that way. Dude straight up threw his lawyer's attempts to save his life out the window by saying he would never go against France. And the rest is history...
I want one of those fancy threaded coats that dude was wearing when the narrator was telling of his promotion to General. Shyte looks fancy as all hell.
During the French retreat from moscow, there was a cut off, & surrounded French unit 5 miles back, Ney gave the order to retrace their steps back into Russia, Ney's French fought the Russian's back, & rescued their countrymen!
Remind me of the good old days
My most favorite marshal
Battle of Waterloo wasn’t even his fault technically. Napoleon was told that the fields were muddy from prior night rainfall…due to a volcano erupting and sending fumes and gas and air all the way from Indonesia(history daily podcast)
Napoleon sacrificed many great Marshal's indeed Ney was one of the best and respected that even the enemy admired the commander that stood till his last breath. History will never forget the brave heroic men that die for patriotism and their motherland. Russia will never fall and this was the exception..may there name live forever for the cause of two countries bring good men to die for nothing.
Napoleon lost at Waterloo because the rain made the ground muddy and this prevented his artillery from being as effective.
Make of Lannes next.
The Achilles of Grand Armée
Nappys best friend
nappy 😂
@knight_561 he literaly called Nappy a "lady of the night" in not such friendly words... Publicaly
Absolutely mad man
An Achilles Heel
One of history's greatest bad asses.
IN those Tumultuous Year's & Thier Decade's of War n Upheavel? He was an Exceptional Gifted Man, & Officer. That Ugh must've, First aquired the Trust & Loyalty of His Men. On the Smallest Unit's Scale? Then took it with Him all the Way to the Larger formations of Division's or Corp Level.
Where His Military Eye of Genius, & that of the then rash upcoming Napoleon. Could Weld it Like a Thunder Bolt of ⚡⚡which too Destroy His Foes with, on those Various Battlefield's.
Where Quick Direct n Very Decieve Decisions. Were absolutely, key 🗝️🔐 n Necessary for the Ultimate Victories that They then Accomplished Together during those Times. His Nickname Marshall Ney The Brave. Was thus Given To Him, for those Reasons and His Loyalty too France above All Esle. Thanks for Sharing as Always. 👍👍💙🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💙🤍❤️👍👍🐎🐎
Good video!
Michel Ney, foi o Bravo nas Guerras Napoleônicas! serviu seu senhor até a morte! Foi Grande General!
They should have given more screen time for Ney and the other Marshalls in NAPOLEON(2023)
That movie is hot garbage all of great moments were run off in minutes, pointless personal interactions, man I hated it
@@saikalyan3966 couldn't agree with you more👍
The most won battles of all French generals at the time
Great Painting
COVERING THE BERESINA RETREAT ONLY WORKED BECAUSE OF THE HIGHLY DISCIPLINED SWISS REGIMENTS which were the only troops still able to fight and getting organized.
Finally, another example of the "Saddest of the sad".
NGL my favourite battlefield commander of all time. His bravery as they escaped Russia was insane . Last man back
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Without a doubt, the greatest of the Marshals!
Davout.
lannes.
Davout the goat.
Lannes the best of the bunch for my money. Net’s definitely my favourite, & I sense the most popular among fans of the age today.
In terms of braveness yes, in terms of command not
Napoleon: The bravest of the brave.
Also Napoleon at Waterloo: Goddamn you Ney!
I think Ney was suffering from PTSD by Waterloo. Imagine what taking part in the rear guard could do to a man.
How could France execute one of its greatest heroes of all time?
All for one and one for Ney.... Bravest of the Brave
The king held a grudge against the whole Napoleon bunch. Remember, Ney was sent to arrest Napoleon by the king. Instead, he joined Napoleon's troops.
Bourbons seen France as property.
They didn't belong to France
Ney beat Wellington on atleast a couple of occassion(Pombal, Redinha).
It's difficult to comprehend how he's the same man who led the cavalry against Allied infantry squares without any artillery support, and even nails to disable the enemy guns of Waterloo.
His fall quickly followed Napoleon's.
His command of the rearguard as Wellington pursued Masséna’s army through Spain is astoundingly superb, & sadly not (yet?) deeply discussed by Epic History. Without Ney’s efforts it’s hard to see Wellington falling short of destroying Masséna’s demoralised forces, as he did.
He ordered the cavalry charge on the false basis the British were running - they weren't, they were simply withdrawing a few yards to avoid bombardment. When Ney reached the ridge, he discovered the British formed up in Square awaiting Charge. The French cavalry was subsequently decimated.
Ney NEVER defeated Wellington in the field.
@@williamclifford4441 Battles of Pombal and Redinha.
He certainly never beat Wellington.
@@mannymcmac1544 battles of Pombal, Redinha
Ney shouldered a rifle during the retreat from Russia…unheard of in his position.
AMAZING! He led his life according to his own decisions…. 🤔‼️
A fearless man who faced the enemies of his country and his Emperor for more than a decade, and his fate was met at the hands of his own soldiers. A tragedy worthy of a play lol
I recall Marshal Ney being executed by a firing squad after realigning himself with The Emperor Napoleon after his escape from Elba. It was just months after the defeat at Waterloo
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Un ...de mes ancêtres était avec lui dans l'arrière garde...❤😊
Lieutenant
Fourquemin Ambroise Parfait
Des Marins de la Garde Impériale.🎖️🎖️🇲🇫
2 ème Régiment d'artillerie de Marine.
Somo Sierra
Krasnoe
Borodino
Bérézina....
Dead in 1852❤😊
Demi Solde
Légion d'honneur et 🏅 Médaille de St Hélène.
Merci!!!!!!!
Vive l'Empereur.❤❤❤🎖️🏅🎖️🇲🇫
RESPECT!!! ❤❤❤
"the history nations is but a recount of crimes" Voltaire
lion of Napoleon!!!
😂😂😂lost everything.
His last command would’ve been the first one I refused
Respect! ❤
so many great stories and great personalities in that era and Scot comes up with a bs snooze fest of a movie .
vive la France 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Monsieur J’ai suis d’accord avec vous 😢
Interestingly, there was a man who arrived in North Carolina not long after Waterloo, who became a schoolteacher and claimed to have been 'Ney of France', telling people he'd faked his execution and escaped to America. He became a local celebrity. When he heard the news of Napoleon's death in 1821, he cut his own throat in distress - though he survived, living well into the 1840s.
Regretfully, a well-known story of the faked execution and miraculous survival of Marshal Ney is a wishful thinking.
I sincerely suggest to everyone to read the serious historical books as well as the memoirs of his contemporaries to understand, why this version of his escape to America is nothing more than a fairy tale (despite I heartily wish it would be truth...).
Poor ney
He was fought every battle and protect france 😔
I once saw a "documentary" which was about a teacher in the US turned out to be ney and they had some really good reasons that it was him.
Regrettably, this well-known story about the miraculous survival and escape to USA of Marshal Ney was nothing more as a fairy tail, a wishful thinking 😢
@@Marguerite-tv4tq ok, thank you!
@@krawallo9255 ❤
His enemies commanded he surrender and he responded in turn, "NEY!"
**wheeze**
None of them had the battlefield tactical genius. Ney and Murat were brave, naturally, as cavalry officers. Davout was stern and tough unyielding. Lannes was energetic and brave, an infantryman after all.
Napolen marshalls is what you get when you promote people for their heart and guts and not their surname and status.
Yes but HOW did he inspire? Would like to read some speeches of him or Napoleon. Where do you learn such a thing? Military school?
Apparently they had presence.not sure you can learn that. Men have to believe in you.
"Ney was the man to have in a crisis. If there wasn't a crisis, he could usually cause one,"
Another commenter, under Ney's marshal video.
what a guy!
Can you make one about soult?
His downfall started with the loss of Jommini as his chief of staff
If Napoleon just utilized Marshall Davout at the battle of Waterloo they had the chance of victory
Tu as raison ! Quelle tragique erreur de ne pas utiliser son meilleur général et son meilleur cavalier ( Murat) !
Would have won Waterloo and lost Paris.
Napoleonic France lacked a general staff. Success dependent on good generals having a good day.
By Waterloo Napoleon was short of good generals and proper staff officers.
Prussians had average generals and a good general staff.
Lost the battle of light and a few days later are cutting into Napoleons flank at Waterloo.
Glory
One mistake is your downfall
The rear guard protector of Napoleon. 🫡
As a marshal he made some tactical blunders, but as officer he didnt in fact he had a very good state of service before he became general.
Wellington could give him grace after the trial but he refuse to.
I read this on Richard aldington book on Wellington.
I've read that the cavalry attacks at Waterloo and his less than stellar command the day before at Quatre Bras was quite possibly because he was suffering from severe PTSD by that point brought on chiefly by fighting that rearguard in Russia
"Do your duty! Straight to the heart but spare the face" - Murat, Marshal of France, King of Naples
Man was worried about his looks even while dying 😂
Ney was ginger and like a lot of gingers was good at what he did , but I think he was a little too keen and didn't plan well in certain battles .
Vive Michel Ney. Willy
I've heard so many comments about how weak and cowardly the French are over the decades that I started to accept that assessment of them - reluctantly.
But no more! I have my issues with the French and how they abused Haiti. Still, I will not cave in to the comical remarks made about the French.
I recently learned that Napoleon's rise was partly due to monarchies in Europe intending to thwart democracy and republican government by bringing their wayward sister (France) back in line. All these years, I thought Napoleon was the aggressor - not responding to the aggression of others. The Age of Metternich - that I did grasp from History classes: striving to maintain the balance of power among nations.
The French are not cowards - nor are they weak. And America is still grateful for LaFayette....
Not napoleons smartest marshal. But definitely one of his most important
loser yes
An amazing tactician, but a poor strategist similar to Murat
Tactically excellent, yes. His rearguard command in Russia gets all the attention, but people should acquaint themselves with his defense of the guard as Wellington pursued him through Spain. Absolutely spectacular performance.
@@ddc2957 Yes!
Viva os espíritos deles.❤
Awesome
I thought his last words were actually, "I am Ney," dying shortly after news of Napoleon's death reached the US.
Facing the British Line at Waterloo and seeing the slaughter of the Imperial Guard around him, he shouted "I'm Ney, kill me! Kill me!.
patetic
Now look up General Chasse. Dubbed General "bayonet" by Napoleon himself.