MACERONI, Colonel Francis.

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Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Colonel Maceroni, First edition of the memoirs of the soldier and inventor Francis Maceroni (1788-1846). "Maceroni recommended himself to Joachim Murat, king of Naples, who on 1 January 1814 made him one of his aides-de-camp, with the rank of colonel of cavalry, and sent him on missions to London, where he was when Murat's forces were defeated by the Austrians at Tolentino in May 1815" (ODNB).

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