(1769-01-10)10 January 1769 Sarrelouis, France (today Saarlouis, Saarland, Germany)
Died
7 December 1815(1815-12-07) (aged 46) Paris, France
Cause of death
Execution by firing squad
Buried
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Allegiance
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of the French
French First Republic
First French Empire
Bourbon Restoration
Branch
French Army
Service years
1787–1815
Commands held
Army of the Rhine
VI Corps
III Corps
Wars
War of the First Coalition
War of the Second Coalition
Napoleonic Wars
War of the Third Coalition
War of the Fourth Coalition
Peninsular War
French invasion of Russia
War of the Sixth Coalition
Hundred Days
Awards
Legion of Honour
Order of the Iron Crown
Signature
Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (pronounced[miʃɛlnɛ]; 10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815) was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
The son of a cooper from Saarlouis, Ney worked as a civil servant until 1787 when he enlisted in a cavalry regiment, right before the outbreak of French Revolution. Distinguishing himself as a cavalry officer in the War of the First Coalition, he quickly rose through the ranks and, by the Battle of Hohenlinden (1800), he had been promoted to divisional general. On Napoleon's proclamation of the French Empire, Ney was named one of the original 18 Marshals of the Empire. He played an instrumental role during Napoleon's subsequent campaigns, seeing action at Elchingen (1805), Jena (1806) and Eylau (1807). Ney commanded the French rearguard during the disastrous invasion of Russia, for which he was lauded "the bravest of the brave" by the emperor.
After Napoleon's defeat by the Sixth Coalition in 1814, Ney pressured the emperor to abdicate and pledged his allegiance to the restored Bourbon monarchy. He rejoined Napoleon during the Hundred Days but met defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (1815), after which he was charged with treason by the restored monarchy and executed by firing squad.
MichelNey, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (pronounced [miʃɛl nɛ]; 10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815) was a French military commander...
Marshal Ney (French: L'exécution du maréchal Ney) is an 1868 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts the French Marshal MichelNey immediately...
Marshal MichelNey, who was born in Saarlouis, was arrested and tried for treason after the failure of Napoleon I's Waterloo Campaign. Ney's attorney...
counterattack that threw the French out of the positions, only to have Marshal MichelNey lead a charge by the 24th Regiment that retook them. Although not enamoured...
main army. Davout successfully broke through, Eugene de Beauharnais and MichelNey were forced to take a detour. Despite the consolidation of several retreating...
Germany. Ney was born in Münster, in the Province of Westphalia, to Johann Adam Ney, a stonecarver and alleged nephew of Field Marshal MichelNey, and Anna...
Nord under Marshal MichelNey. The battle was a tactical victory for Wellington (as he possessed the field at dusk), but because Ney prevented him going...
she was renamed after the French field marshal of the Napoleonic Wars MichelNey. After service in the First World War, she became a depot ship and then...
two days earlier; Masséna sent the newly promoted General of Division MichelNey and part of the Army of the Danube to Winterthur on 27 May to stop the...
command of André Masséna, sought to prevent this merger. Masséna sent MichelNey and a small mixed cavalry and infantry force from Zürich to stop Hotze's...
2nd/2nd Chasseurs and 1st/2nd Chasseurs. Napoleon left Ney to conduct the assault; however, Ney led the Middle Guard on an oblique towards the Anglo-allied...
of Marshal MichelNey was defeated at Puente Sanpayo in Pontevedra by Spanish forces under the command of Colonel Pablo Morillo, and Ney and his forces...
troops into a single sector. The northern front was defended by Marshals MichelNey and Auguste de Marmont, and the eastern front by Marshal Jacques MacDonald...
overall command of the Russian armies in Poland. At this point, Marshal Ney began to extend his forces to procure food supplies. Bennigsen noticed a...
Marshal MichelNey, succeeded in stopping any of Wellington's forces going to aid Blücher's Prussians by fighting a blocking action at Quatre Bras. Ney failed...
He was born and died in Saarlouis. He was related to MichelNey[citation needed] . Hubert Ney started studying law at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich...
you will shoot his Emperor, here I am." The men joined his cause. Marshal Ney, now one of Louis XVIII's commanders, had said that Napoleon ought to be...
with only four others (most notably Marshals Emmanuel de Grouchy and MichelNey) serving under Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Auguste de Marmont...
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