Marshal Ney faces the firing squad
1815 · Event
'The bravest of the brave', who promised Louis XVIII to bring Napoleon back in an iron cage and then joined him, is shot in the Luxembourg Gardens for treason — refusing a blindfold and giving the order to fire himself. The Bourbon White Terror claims the Napoleonic legend's first martyr.
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