He confessed this shocking alias on his deathbed when he died on Nov. 15, 1846, as Michel Ney, the marshal, who was believed to have been executed by a firing squad in France 30 years earlier.

According to the legend, Ney reportedly claimed, both during his lifetime and in a deathbed confession, to be Marshal Michel Ney, the well known commander who served under Napoleon Bonaparte’s ...

According to historians, the “bravest of the brave” was a Frenchman named Michel Ney, a fearsome and formidable foe on the battlefield who waged war alongside Napoleon from 1803 to 1815 ...

This version has been corrected. Through swirling smoke from cannon and musket fire, Marshal Michel Ney squinted at the center of the English line at Waterloo. It was June 18, 1815, and the French ...

In conventional histories the life of Michel Ney, cooper’s son whose brilliance and bravery in the service of Napoleon raised him to be Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskowa and Marshal of France ...

Born into a German-speaking family from Alsace, Michel Ney joined the French Revolutionary Army and quickly rose through the ranks fighting the Austrians in Germany. After being named Marshal of ...