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Biographie. Fils cadet de Jean-François Rocca, avocat et conseiller de la République de Genève, et de Jeanne-Judith Bardin 1, il voit le jour dans une famille noble de la République de Genève d'origine piémontaise. Citoyen français après l'annexion de Genève, le 15 avril 1798, il étudie à l' École polytechnique, à Paris ...
Albert Jean Michel de Rocca (1788 – 31 January 1818) was a French lieutenant during the Napoleonic Wars. He was also the second husband of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël . Biography. De Rocca was born in Geneva, Republic of Geneva, in 1788. He served in the French army during the Peninsular war and was seriously injured.
- 31 January 1818
- French lieutenant during the Napoleonic Wars
- 1788, Geneva, Republic of Geneva
The Peninsular War was a bitter struggle by the Spaniards to liberate their country from the French invaders and in this essential memoir Albert de Rocca describes the fighting in...
26 ott 2023 · Albert Jean Michel de Rocca by Pierre-Louis Bouvier, c. 1816. Rocca’s 1815 Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain chronicles the treacherous journey between Madrid and Bayonne, France – the path most French soldiers entered and left the peninsula.
30 mar 2017 · Albert Jean Michel de Rocca gives a riveting account of the Peninsular War from an entirely different perspective. Albert Rocca was a junior officer in Napoleon's 2nd Regiment of Hussars, and describes such early events as the march to Madrid and Napoleons entry into the city, followed by the subsequent battles and the pursuit of Sir ...
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Albert Rocca was a junior officer in Napoleon's 2nd Regiment of Hussars, and describes such early events as the march to Madrid and Napoleons entry into the city, followed by the subsequent battles and the pursuit of Sir John Moore to Corunna. For him Spain was not just alien but totally hostile as well.
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Albert Jean Michel Rocca, M. de Rocca: Translated by: Lady Maria Callcott: Publisher: J. Murray, 1815: Original from: the University of Michigan: Digitized: Jan 29, 2008: Length: 384 pages...
