Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Childress stated that this General made it quite clear that Marshal Ney was actually executed under his own orders and in his presence. Also he stated that he would like to read more on the subject in future issues of TIME...
...France giving a lengthy thesis by Dr. Andre Jager-Schmidt, French historian, who claims to have examined the archives and contemporaneous writings, and also stating this is the first time an authoritative voice from France has undertaken to puncture the Carolina belief that our Peter Stuart Ney, schoolteacher, was Marshal Ney. This article states that the French Embassy in Washington ignored a request for a statement as to the official view of the North Carolina story. I wish to state that on July 31 I wrote this Embassy informing them of my planned exhumation of the body and I stated...
...first time since the legend prevailed, a French historian has made reply to the long-existing claim in Eastern North Carolina that Marshal Michel Ney lies buried there, that he escaped execution in Paris on Dec. 7, 1817, was smuggled to Charleston, S. C. and died many years later after serving the families of Southern planters as a teacher...
...Marshal died a brave man in a little garden on the Avenue de l'Observatoire. He stood without a blindfold and told the soldiers to aim at his heart. Three of the firing squad were good shots and put three bullets through his chest, three more pierced his skull and one hit his arm. His body, following the usual custom was allowed to remain as it lay for 15 minutes. Many of his friends saw it and the representative of the military governor of Paris made the physical examination and reported back that the tribunal's order...
...intended writing TIME Letters after reading article in July 20 issue on the Marshal Ney mystery. I am now glad to corroborate information given in Charles W. Allison's letter. Aug. 24 issue, on this same subject...