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Marshal Ney: Myths and Questions

When Marshal Ney was shot in the Luxembourg Gardens, the man was already eclipsed by his legend. His career exposes the limits of battlefield brilliance in a world where wars were already fought on paper and in courts.

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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 have fought a hundred battles for France and not one against her…. Soldiers! Fire!” The oft-quoted last words of Michel Ney, Marshal of France,...

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The author of a biography on Marshal Ney discusses the Napoleonic Wars and his historical influences

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Brian Williams, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? My father was a history teacher and one of my abiding memories of childhood is of him spreading a map out on the dinner party and showing me where Waterloo was. I had come home from a visit...

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Brian Williams is a British historian and the author of Marshal Ney: Fall from Glory which was published in August 2025.

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