Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II
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Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte
Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte was a son of Jérôme Bonaparte and Elizabeth Patterson, an American....
and Susan May Williams
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Susan May Williams was the daughter of Benjamin Williams, a prominent Baltimore merchant originally from Roxbury, Massachusetts, and his wife, Sarah Copeland, widow of Nathaniel Morton...
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He was the grandnephew of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France and the grandson of Jerome BonaparteJérôme Bonaparte
Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte, French Prince, King of Westphalia, 1st Prince of Montfort was the youngest brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Westphalia...
, King of Westphalia
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He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point
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in 1848 and graduated 11th in Class of 1852. Upon graduation was commissioned a second lieutenant and served in Texas
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with the Mounted Rifle Regiment. His letters from Fort Inge
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and Fort Ewell have been preserved by the Maryland Historical Society
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He resigned from the U.S. Army
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in August 1854 to serve in the army of his first cousin-once-removed, Napoleon III of France
Napoleon III of France
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was the President of the French Second Republic and as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I, christened as Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte...
and was commissioned a colonel in French army. He fought in Algiers
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, the Italian campaign, the Crimean War
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, and the Franco-Prussian War
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In 1871, he resigned from the French Army and returned home to the United States
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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, MassachusettsNewtonville, MassachusettsNewtonville is a village of Newton, Massachusetts.Located in Newtonville is Newton North High School, one of the city's two high schools. Also located in Newtonville is the MBTA Commuter Rail train station, which is serviced by the buses 59, 553, 554, and 556....
, and former wife of Harold Stenbeigh of Hewlett, New YorkHewlett, New YorkHewlett is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the CDP population was 6,819....
: no children.
He died in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts.