Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II

Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte, II
Born	November 5, 1830 Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Died	September 3, 1893 Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, United States
Allegiance	United States  France
Service/branch	United States Army French Army
Years of service	United States Army-(1852–1854) French Army-(1854–1871)
Rank	Second Lieutenant (US) Lieutenant Colonel (France)
Unit	Regiment of Mounted Riflemen 3rd US Cavalry 7th (French) Dragoons 1st African Chasseurs 1st Carabiniers 3rd Cuirassiers Dragoons of the Empress
Battles/wars	French conquest of Algeria Crimean War Second Italian War of Independence Franco-Prussian War
Spouse(s)	Caroline Le Roy Le Roy-Bonaparte

Jerome-Napoleon Bonaparte II (1830-1893) was an American soldier who served in the French Army. He was the son of Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte and Susan May Williams.

Biography

He was the grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, and the grandnephew of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France.

Bonaparte entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1848 and graduated 11th in the Class of 1852. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and served in Texas with the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. His letters from Fort Inge and Fort Ewell have been preserved by the Maryland Historical Society.

Bonaparte resigned from the U.S. Army in August 1854 to serve in the army of his first cousin-once-removed, Napoleon III of France, and a few weeks later was commissioned as a lieutenant of dragoons in the French Army. He fought in the Crimean War, Algeria, the Italian campaign, and the Franco-Prussian War, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Following the Siege of Paris, Bonaparte left the French Army and returned home to the United States where he married Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar, daughter of Samuel and Julia Webster Appleton, and widow of Newbold 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 issue.

References

• Allen Johnson (dir.), Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 10 + 1 + 1 volumes, 1937–1964, volume 1 (Abbe — Brazer), 660 pages + 613 pages, entry « Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon » (1830–1893) page 429 (part 2 of volume 1 : Barsotti — Brazer) by T. M. S. (Thomas Marshall Spaulding)
• Macartney, Charles Edward, and Dorrance, Gordon, The Bonapartes in America, Dorrance and Company, Philadelphia, 1939

External links

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• Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Jr from the Handbook of Texas Online
• Career profile