| smog monster | 03 Oct 2019 4:07 a.m. PST |
Hi lads this is a bit of trivia but you may be able to answer a question I have been trying to find the answer to for a number of years. In the 1813 campaign Macdonald's corps, the 31st Division of Ledru had a brigade of Neapolitan troops Commanded by a certain General de Brigade Macdonald. I ask you chaps is he a relation or not. As I have said I have tried for a few years to get a handle on him but without any luck. Cheers. |
| skipper John | 03 Oct 2019 5:51 a.m. PST |
Sorry, no idea but, I heard he had a farm and was quite old. |
| jedburgh | 03 Oct 2019 6:17 a.m. PST |
Marshal Macdonald – he even gets a mention in the Duellists.
link
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| Artilleryman | 03 Oct 2019 6:49 a.m. PST |
A common name amongst Jacobite exiles. It would be fun if they were related by I also can find no mention anywhere of the marshal having a brother. |
| smog monster | 03 Oct 2019 7:46 a.m. PST |
skipper John only when he was old dear boy, at the start of his life he was cough cough quite young. |
| 42flanker | 03 Oct 2019 9:11 a.m. PST |
I believe that Macdonald's father changed his name on going into exile. As Artillery man said, not a rare patronymic among the diaspora. |
Old Glory  | 03 Oct 2019 10:45 a.m. PST |
He also had a cow and few other animals that went e-I-e-I-o I do believe |
| 42flanker | 03 Oct 2019 11:53 a.m. PST |
No, the cow went 'moo-moo' here, and in numerous other places; indeed everywhere. Ditto various other animals in his care, showcasing their respective vocalisations. It was the anonymous source for the senior Macdonald's agricultural activities who included the mantra 'ee-eye, ee-eye, oh' in their account. |
| SHaT1984 | 03 Oct 2019 9:48 p.m. PST |
I have a certain box of effects that needs opening and may have some information- depends whether I paid attention to the dispersed corps of the era… tbc
davew |
| Marcel1809 | 14 Oct 2019 3:34 a.m. PST |
Marshal Macdonald is the only one mentioned in the lists of Georges Six, so at least according to Six there was no other general Mac donald in the French army. May shis one was par tof the neapoltan army as those were the troops he commanded. |
| Oliver Schmidt | 14 Oct 2019 3:45 a.m. PST |
It is Francesco Macdonald (1777-1837), born in Italian Pescara, so probably not related: link |
| Trajanus | 14 Oct 2019 6:03 a.m. PST |
Jacobites went in for fancy names. Take, Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart, for example! |
 4th Cuirassier  | 14 Oct 2019 9:40 a.m. PST |
@ Trajanus That name is up there with the legendary Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet
link |
| Marcel1809 | 14 Oct 2019 10:35 a.m. PST |
Great link Oliver and a Neapolitan indeed, according to your link even married to Caroline Bonaparte after Murat's execution, something I totally ignored, great to learn something new about the bonaparte family |
| Trajanus | 15 Oct 2019 3:19 a.m. PST |
@ 4th Cuirassier Great name!!! Could have been worse, he might have ended up being called Bonnie Prince Bidet! |
| thomaspicton | 17 Oct 2019 2:10 p.m. PST |
Take a look at the siege of Tortosa in Spain in 1810 when the French Marshal MacDonald found himself dealing with the Spanish General O'Donnell. |
| Greystreak | 18 Oct 2019 12:32 p.m. PST |
As long as it wasn't a Campbell . . . |
| smog monster | 21 Oct 2019 4:20 a.m. PST |
Thank you Mr Schmidt, at last an answer, and a bit of extra triv he married one of bony's sisters. who knew, well obviously other than Mr Schmidt. |
paints a Napoleonic caricature.