RAMEL (Jean Pierre) signed autograph letter, Milan 1807 to General Charpentier

  
Signed autograph letter from the adjutant commander J P Ramel at the imperial inn. From "Milan, May 3, 1807, to General Charpentier, Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Italy.

" 2 and a half pages in quarto, followed by a postscript: in case you please to request my retirement, I have been in service since 1784, I have 3 wounds from all campaigns, except the one in Cayenne which would be worth three, and a decree from the legislative body of Paris declaring that I have well earned my place in the homeland. Not having been received, he writes:... I had come to ask you to place the attached request before His Excellency (Eugène de Beauharnais, in charge of the administration of the Kingdom of Italy from 1805 to 1814). Jean-Pierre Ramel (Cahors, 1768 - Toulouse 1815) fought in the wars of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

He became a brigadier general under the Restoration. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under Ferdinand I had allied with the Third Coalition against Napoleon in 1805. In 1806, following decisive victories over the allied armies at Austerlitz and over the Neapolitans at Campo Tenese, Napoleon installed his brother Joseph on the throne of Naples.