Grave of Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte - Paris, France
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Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte, brother of Napolean I, was King of Spain, Naples and Sicily.
Waymark Code: WMD17K
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/05/2011
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Joseph-Napolean's tomb is located in the same building at the Invalides as his more famous brother, Napolean I...although on the first level. Napolean I is located in the rotunda a floor below.
Joseph-Napolean (7 January 1768 – Italy, 28 July 1844) served as King of Naples and Sicly from 1806-1808 and King of Spain 1808-1813.
Wikipedia (
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"In 1806, Joseph was given military command of Naples, and shortly afterward was made king by Napoleon, to be replaced after two years by his sister's husband, Joachim Murat, when Joseph was made king of Spain in August 1808, soon after the French invasion...
Joseph somewhat reluctantly left Naples and arrived in Spain just in time for the commencement of the Spanish revolt against French rule, and the beginning of the Peninsular War. After a series of early defeats of the French by the remnants of the Spanish regular armies (stiffened by militia and guerrillas) Joseph temporarily retreated with much of the French Army to northern Spain. Feeling himself in an ignominious position, Joseph then proposed his own abdication from the Spanish throne, hoping that Napoleon would sanction his return to the Neapolitan Throne he had formerly occupied. Napoleon dismissed Joseph's misgivings out of hand; and, to back up the raw and ill-trained levies he had initially allocated to Spain—the Emperor sent heavy French reinforcements to assist Joseph in maintaining his position as king of Spain. Despite the easy recapture of Madrid, and nominal control by Joseph's government over many cities and provinces, Joseph's reign over Spain was always tenuous at best, and constantly resisted by pro-Bourbon guerrillas. Joseph and his supporters never established complete control over the country."
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