Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II

Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte - Patterson II ( born November 5, 1830 in Baltimore, † September 3, 1893 in Pride 's Crossing, Massachusetts ) was a grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the younger son of Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte - Patterson (1805-1870) and Susan May Williams (1812-1881), one of which stems from the American line of the Bonaparte family.

After his studies Jérôme served in the U.S. Army in Texas until he of the French army under his cousin Napoleon III. joined. He fought in Algeria and Italy, took part in the Crimean War (1854-1856) and the German - French War ( 1870-1871 ). In 1854 he was promoted to colonel.

After Jérôme Bonaparte - Patterson II was retired from the French Army, he returned to the U.S. and married on September 7, 1871 Caroline Leroy Appleton, with whom he had two children:

  • Louise Eugénie Bonaparte - Patterson (1873-1923), Count Adam Carl ∞ 1896 von Moltke Huitfeld ( 1864-1944 )
  • Jérôme Napoléon Charles Bonaparte - Patterson (1878-1945), ∞ 1914 Blanche Pierce Stenbeigh
  • House Bonaparte
  • Americans
  • Born in 1830
  • Died in 1893
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