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Ney Michel
(1769—1815)

Known as the Bravest of the Brave, Michel Ney was not known for his coolness, or an excessive amount of caution. Irrefutably courageous, the hot-tempered soldier's soldier too often let his dash get in the way of sound military thinking. He joined a hussars regiment in 1787 and through his elan and personality was quickly promoted. He fought at Neerwinden, Mainz, Mannheim, Winterthur, Hohenlinden, Elchingen, Jena, Eylau, Friedland, Bussaco, Smolensk, Borodino, Beresina, Weissenfels, Lutzen, Bautzen, Dennewitz, Leipzig, Quatre Bras and Waterloo. His later career and relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte was a strained one - Ney having sided with those who demanded the emperor's abdication and served the Bourbons. He re-attached himself to Bonaparte for the 100 Days' Campaign - with terrible consequences for the French. His delaying and mishandling of the battle at Quatre Bras ruined Bonaparte's strategic plan and the debacle of Waterloo, where he completely lost the plot, ended in abject defeat. Ney paid for his errors with his life as he was put on trial for treason by the returning Bourbons, sentenced to death and shot on 7 December 1815. He was, however, insanely brave to the end and gave the signal to the firing squad to shoot.

Belgium, 1990, Battle of Waterloo

Congo, 1969, Battle of Friedland

Equatorial Guinea, 1977, Battle of Friedland

Equatorial Guinea, 1977, French campain

Fujeira, 1972, Coronation of Napoleon; French campaign

Guinea, 1994, Ney, battle of Borodino

Guinea, 2011, French presidents, Napoleon I

Liberia, 1970, The French Campaign

Liberia, 1970, The Abdication

Manama, 1972, Napoleon at Waterloo

Niger, 1969, French campaign

Ras al-Khaima, 1969, Battle at Friedland; Napoleon in His Study

Saar, 1947, Marshal Ney statue in Saarlouis