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Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte IiJerome Napoleon Bonaparte II (November 5, 1830 - September 3, 1893) was a son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte and Susan May Williams. He studied at West Point and served in Texas with the Mounted Rifles. His letters from Fort Inge and Fort Ewell have been preserved by the Maryland Historical Society. He resigned from the US Army to serve in the army of his first cousin, Napoleon III of France. He fought in Algiers, the Italian campaign, the Crimean War, and the Franco-Prussian War. In 1854 he was made a colonel. In 1871 he resigned from the French Army and returned home to the United States where he married Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar. They would have two children: - Louise-Eugnie Bonaparte (1873-1923), married in 1896 Count Adam Carl von Moltke-Huitfeld (1864-1944): they have numerous descendants.
- Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte (1878-1945), married in 1914 Blanche Pierce Stenbeigh, daughter of Edward and Emily Pierce of Newtonville, Massachusetts and former wife of Harold Stenbeigh of Hewlitt, New York: no children.
He died in Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts. External link Biography from The Handbook of Texas Online. Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon II Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon II
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