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...Press that the White Armies under Generalissimo Francisco Franco were now engaged in trying to take Madrid by exactly the same tactics over exactly the same roads and passes as served British General Sir Arthur Wellesley to take Madrid from the Emperor Napoleon's great Marshals Ney, Massena and Soult in the Peninsular War. After that campaign Sir Arthur became the Duke of Wellington...
Under Two Captains, mentioned by Mr. Allison, is the biography of my great grandfather, John Jacob Lehmanowsky, general under Marshal Ney, member of Napoleon's intimate circle, close friend of the Marquis de La Fayette of Revolutionary War fame. Loving France, the country of his mother (his father a member of a Polish family able to trace its lineage back through many generations), John J. Lehmanowsky, after an extensive education in Poland journeyed to France and immediately became embroiled in the turbulent affairs of the country. He decided to support Napoleon and rapidly rose in his esteem, becoming...
...grandmother, Mrs. Nicholas Reising, John J. Lehmanowsky's daughter, asserted that Marshal Ney did visit her father, as set forth in Under Two Captains, and from her own lips the story was as follows...
...giving every evidence of being friends long parted who had had no hope of meeting again. They talked most of the night, and not until the gentleman had gone the next day did her father tell certain members of the family that their guest was none other than Marshal Ney. but that the secret must not be revealed to anyone...
...stated previously, grandmother had reached an intelligent age, saw the gentleman herself, and had the word of her father that their guest was in fact Marshal Ney, and it seems to us there can be no doubt about Ney's successful escape to this country, the account of which as related to her father is contained in Under Two Captains...