Joachim Murat

Joachim Murat - Murat Joachim (1767-1815) - Grand Duke Bergsky, King of Naples. Perhaps the most famous of Napoleon's marshals. Service in the army began an ordinary, but very quickly moved. In 1795, he was a lieutenant in the garrison of Paris, where he showed himself in the suppression of uprisings Bonaparte royalists. Then, accompanied him in all the campaigns until 1812. After returning from Russia, Napoleon was left for the team, but left the army and fled to the kingdom, granted by him after marriage to Napoleon's sister Caroline. Entered into an agreement with the representatives of Austria, and in exchange for keeping the crown, defected to the coalition antinapoleonovskoy. Despite the open betrayal of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna it still deprived of the crown. During the Hundred Days, stood on the side of Napoleon. With his army tried to break into the compound to him, but was arrested in Switzerland and Lorraine. After Waterloo, had fled to Corsica, where organized landing in Naples for the capture of their former kingdom. He was arrested and shot.