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BEAULHARNOIS

Volume 4 · 116 words · 1860 Edition

Eugene, step-son of Napoleon, who treated him and his sister as children of his own. He was born in 1780, and in 1806 married the Princess Augusta Amelia of Bavaria. He was viceroy of the kingdom of Italy from 1805 to 1814. He accompanied Buonaparte in his Italian campaigns, and in Egypt; was with him in the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812–13; and after Napoleon and Murat left the army, the chief command devolved on Eugene, who had shown skill and courage during the retreat. He appears to have been an amiable and judicious man. After the overthrow of Napoleon in 1814, he withdrew to Munich, and died there in 1824, at the age of forty-five.