"A Sardinian Officer at Waterloo." Topic

"One might call this man a Franco Italian, in that he was born in what is now part of France, but he owed his allegiance to the old Kings of Piedmont & Sardinia, and most British commenters called him a Sardinian because of this. Here is the story that I happened to stumble across of another little known Waterloo Man.

Paolo Francesco de Sales was a man that had been in the struggle against France from the beginning. Born in Annecy Piedmont on November 17, 1778, then Piedmont, Savoy and a large chunk of North Western Italy were territories of the King of Sardinia, a crown worn since 1720, by the Duke's of Savoy. His family was of the wealthy nobility, his father Claudio de Sales and his wife Louisa. Claudio was the Count of Brense (Bresse?) and a Colonel of the King's infantry, therefore one might expect his son to be a soldier. When Paolo was 10 he was accepted to the Court of Vittorio Amadeus III at Turin, as a pageboy to Amadeus' son and heir the Prince of Piedmont Carlo Emmanuelle…"

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Armand

An interesting Napoleonic anecdote. Thanks T.

That is the most detailed account of his contribution that Sunday in 1815 that I have read.Obviously always listed as part of the DoW's retinue, but little more info than that usually.

Great find!

Happy you enjoyed it boys…

Armand