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16026
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Many people claim with certainty that Peter Stuart Ney, who lived and taught school in early 19th century Rowan County and Marshal Ney, Napoleon's famous General, were one and the same person. New evidence has been brought to light.
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2761
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Marshal Michael Ney, who was executed in 1815, was one of Napoleon's greatest soldiers. New evidence supports the legend that he escaped to the United states and was living in Rowan County at the time of his death in 1846.
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16021
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Van Dusen presents information which he feels refutes the legend that Marshal Ney, Napoleon's famous general, was not executed in France, but escaped to America and resided in western North Carolina.
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15980
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Plans to exhume the remains of Peter Stuart Ney, said to be Napoleon's famous Marshal Ney, who was buried in Rowan County in 1846, were reported in an earlier article in The State. The legend of Marshal Ney was that he was not executed in France in 1815, but escaped to the United States where he taught school in Rowan County, North Carolina. Dusen presents arguments that refute this idea.
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15378
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Who was Peter Stewart Ney? Was he Marshal Michel Ney, one of Napoleon's greatest generals, who was executed in 1815, after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo? Or did he escape and become a teacher in 19th-century Rowan County? His tombstone in a Rowan County cemetery states that he was a native of France and a soldier under Napoleon Bonaparte. The mystery continues.
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10739
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Marshal Michel Ney, who was executed in 1815, was one of Napoleon's greatest soldiers. According to legend, he did not die but escaped to the United States. Supposedly he was teaching school and living in Rowan County at the time of his death in 1846.
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