Maurice Persat (30 April 1788 in

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– 1858) was a French officer and writer, participant of the

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and revolutionary wars in

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and

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Biography

Persat was born in Puy-de-Dome in central France in 1788. He was a captain of cavalry in

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's army. He received the Order of the "

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" from the hands of Napoleon in 1813. After the

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, he was retired on half-pay. He formed a rebel force in the Loire, but was exiled during the

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. He also participated in a conspiracy for rescuing of Napoleon from the island of

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. In 1817, he immigrated to the United States. In 1818, he joined the army of

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, but was disappointed with leaders and by February 1819 went to the island of

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. He returned to France and again took part in a pro-Napoleon plot. He participated in the

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and was imprisoned by the Austrians, but escaped. Since the beginning of the Greek Revolution against the Ottomans in 1821, he went to Greece. According to Dimitris Fotiadis he was one of the first officers of the 1st Battalion of the regular Greek army, which by order of Demetrios Ypsilantis was organized in July 1821 in the town of Kalamata by the Corsican officer Joseph Baleste; according to himself, he didn't belong to this Battalion but was attached to the staff of Ypsilantis. After Greece, Persat went to Spain and took part in battles against the forces of

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, as commander of a cavalry detachment under the command of

Francisco Espoz y Mina Francisco Espoz Ilundáin (17 June 1781 – 24 December 1836), being better known as Francisco Espoz y Mina, was a Spanish guerrilla leader and general. Biography He was born in Idocin in Navarre. His father, Juan Esteban Espoz y Mina, and hi ...

. In the years 1838-1839, he wrote "Memoirs 1806-1844", which, however, remained unpublished until 1910.''Diccionario biográfico del Trienio Liberal'', Madrid: El Museo Universal, 1991.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Persat, Maurice 1788 births 1858 deaths People from Puy-de-Dôme 19th-century French writers French male writers French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Recipients of the Legion of Honour French philhellenes in the Greek War of Independence