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After 1806, the flag was composed of three stripes of white, red and black. Both horizontal and vertical versions were in use. This flag was used up to 1808. When Joachim Murat was the king of Naples (1808–1815), the corners of the flag had 2 red and 2 black triangles, and the coat of arms was inside a rhombus in the center. In 1811 Murat ...
English: Flag of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples, from 1811 to 1815. Italiano: Bandiera del Regno di Napoli napoleonico tra il 1811 e il 1815, contenente anche il nuovo stemma delle Due Sicilie, con l'aquila e il fascio francesi, il triscele siciliano e il cavallo di Napoli.
15 July 1811 May 1815 Converted from the old Guard Voltigeurs in 1811. [3] Regiment of Vélité-Hunters Reggimento Veliti Cacciatori: 22 September 1808 15 July 1811 Originally formed as the Company of Chosen Civic Hunters in 1806, and expanded to a regiment in 1808 after their conversion. Became the 1st Regiment of Velites of Foot on 15 July 1811.
The Army's 7th Regiment of the Line was one of the few military units in Europe during the period which consisted primarily of Black soldiers. It was originally the Black Pioneers, a battalion-sized French army unit raised from Afro-Caribbeans who had emigrated to France from the French West Indies, including Saint-Domingue. When the Kingdom of ...
The 1st Regiment of the Line (King's Own) or (Italian: 1° Reggimento della Linea 'del Re') was a line infantry regiment of the Royal Army of Naples.The regiment was the first infantry regiment formed by the small kingdom, but by 1811 gained a reputation as an exemplary infantry regiment, and was reformed with the honorary title of "King's Own, or del Re".
Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Baronet (3 June 1736 – 12 August 1811) [2] was a French-born English gentleman who served as Commander of the naval forces of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and later as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Naples under Ferdinand IV. [3]
The Kingdom of Naples (Italian: Regno di Napoli; Neapolitan: Regno 'e Napule) was a French client state in southern Italy that existed from 1806 to 1815. It was founded after the Bourbon Ferdinand IV & III of Naples and Sicily sided with the Third Coalition against Napoleon, and was in return ousted from his kingdom by a French invasion.
The tower of the town hall of Cherasco. The oldest documented mention of the Italian tricolour flag is linked to the first descent of Napoleon in the Italian Peninsula.With the start of the first campaign in Italy, in many places the Jacobins of the peninsula rose up, contributing, together with the Italian soldiers framed in the Napoleonic army, to the French victories.