Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II
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Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II (November 5, 1830 - September 3, 1893) was a son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte and Susan May Williams.
He studied at West Point (Class of 1852) and served in Texas with the Mounted Rifles. His letters from Fort Inge and Fort Ewell have been preserved by the Maryland Historical Society.
He resigned from the U.S. Army to serve in the army of his first cousin-once-removed, Napoleon III of France. He fought in Algiers, the Italian campaign, the Crimean War, and the Franco-Prussian War. In 1854, he was made a colonel.
In 1871, he resigned from the French Army and returned home to the United States where he married Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar. They would have two children:
- Louise-Eugénie Bonaparte (1873-1923), married in 1896 Count Adam Carl von Moltke-Huitfeld (1864-1944): they have numerous descendants.
- Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte (1878-1945), married in 1914 Blanche Pierce Stenbeigh, daughter of Edward and Emily Pierce of Newtonville, Massachusetts, and former wife of Harold Stenbeigh of Hewlett, New York: no children.
He died in Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts.
[edit] External links
- Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Jr from the Handbook of Texas Online
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