Marshall of France who covered Napoleon's retreat from Moscow and led the Old Guard at the battle of Waterloo, for which he was tried and executed by firing squad.

REFERENCES TO Michel Ney, first Duc d'Elchingen:

Thomas Sheridan to Samuel Whitbread, [April 1814] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Robert Southey to John May, 25 April 1814 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Henry Grey Bennet to Thomas Creevey, 3 April 1815 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 29 December 1815 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Lady Holland to Eleanor Creevey, 1 January 1816 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

John Murray to Lord Byron, 2 January 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 16 January 1816 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)