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Found this picture on the net regarding a rather special grave of a former high rank officer of the Imperial army.
Tought some of you might like to see it too.
 

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In France Châlons-en-Champagne.
That is about 48 km SE of Reims.
Grave monument of Colonel Pierre Nicolas Martelet (1765-1846).
-He was Adjudant, Commander and Chief-of-Staff of the 35th Division of the IInd Corps of the Grande Armée.
-The monument shows the Battles this Officer fought in. Revolutionary and Napoleonic.
-Discription: it has bicorn; epaulettes; sword and Croix de la légion d'honeur on top of the monument. And has a skull and an owl in it.
 
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Just got my self a bunch of documents to a captain who started his career under Napoleon and made it to his retirement.
He got wounded several times and fought in various campaigns.
Quiet intresting to read, imagining what and how it must have been...."boys will be boys"....;-)
 

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