1815: Joachim Murat, Napoleonic Marshal
- Filed under: Horse Racing News, Horse Racing Results, Horse Racing Tips
- Date: Oct 12,2009
On this date in 1815, French Marshal-cum-Neapolitan King Joachim Murat was shot in Pizzo, Italy, for a failed attempt to regain his throne. The charismatic cavalryman cuts a snazzy figure in the Napoleonic era, from its very infancy: it was Murat who secured for the 26-year-old Bonaparte the cannon used to deliver the “whiff of grapeshot” whose odor set Napoleon on the path to becoming Emperor. Murat knew a good thing when he had it, and thereafter zipped around with the peripatetic c
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