With Louis unable to defend his realm, France sent 80, 000 militiamen, commanded by future King of Sweden Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte and successfully repelled the invasion.

In response to a request from Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator for Palestine, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, sent 50 members of the United Nations guard force from Lake Success to assist the Mediator in supervising the Truce in the former British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 and the " UNTSO ", the first peacekeeping operation was established by the United Nations.

Accordingly, Napoleon sent the corps of Soult and Marmont towards the Iller, meaning he now had four infantry and one cavalry corps to deal with Mack ; Davout, Bernadotte, and the Bavarians were still guarding the region around Munich.

Bernadotte sent a letter to the governments of Prussia, Austria, and the United Kingdom thanking them for their support, acknowledging the role of Russia in negotiating the peace, and envisaging greater stability in the Nordic region.

On July 20, Bernadotte sent a letter to his " cousin " Christian Frederik accusing him of intrigues and foolhardy adventurism.

Taylor commanded a brigade at Antwerp 1813 – 1814, and was sent on a diplomatic mission to Bernadotte of Sweden in 1814.

The attack was to take place against the Russbach line on a wide front, between Wagram and Markgrafneusiedl, with Bernadotte, Eugène, Oudinot and Davout all ordered forward.

The Swedish Crown Prince Charles XIV John of Sweden | Charles John ( Bernadotte ), who staunchly opposed Norwegian independence, only to offer generous terms of union After brief fighting, the peace established a personal union between the two states.

The French were separated in two massive rings at this point: the forces of Ney, Lannes and Murat to the west were containing Mack, while those of Soult, Davout, Bernadotte and Marmont to the east were charged with guarding against any possible Russian and Austrian incursions.

During the campaign of 1805, Bernadotte with an army corps from Hanover, co-operated in the great movement which resulted in the shutting off of Mack in Ulm.

In the war against Austria, Bernadotte led the Saxon contingent at the Battle of Wagram ( 6 July 1809 ), on which occasion, on his own initiative, he issued an Order of the Day attributing the victory principally to the valour of his Saxons, which order Napoleon at once disavowed.

Initially of low standing, Gustav rose to lead the rebel movement following the bloodbath in which his father was executed, and his election as King on June 6, 1523 ( currently recognised as the National holiday of Sweden ) and his triumphant entry into Stockholm eleven days later meant the end of Medieval Sweden's elective monarchy as well as the Kalmar Union, which had united the Nordic kingdoms since 1397, and the commencing of a hereditary monarchy under the House of Vasa which, currently under the House of Bernadotte, continues to date.

Bernadotte attended school in Stockholm, after which he entered training to become a cavalry officer at the Military Academy Karlberg.

She belonged to the Bernadotte dynasty, which had ruled in Sweden since 1818, when the founder, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's generals, was elected crown prince of Sweden in 1810 and later succeeded the throne as Charles XIV of Sweden in 1818.

Towards 04: 00, seeing that the enemy had taken position in and around the village, Bernadotte assembled his artillery in a battery of 26 pieces, which began to bombard Aderklaa, but the Austrian heavy artillery at Deutsch-Wagram responded by releasing a devastating counter-battery fire, which knocked out 15 Saxon pieces during the following three hours.

# Families of Swedish origin which were granted noble status and / or titles by a foreign country ( for example, members of the House of Bernadotte have been granted Luxembourgish comital titles ).

Shortly after the treaty was signed, on August 21, 1810, one of Napoleon's marshals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was elected crown prince of Sweden, and he went on to found the House of Bernadotte, which remains the Royal House of Sweden.

Though in sight of the battle, Bernadotte took no steps to come to Davout's aid, for which he was later censured by Napoleon.

Clary and Marie Tascher, better known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, the future wife of Napoleon and first empress of France, were also the subjects of a screen treatment written by John B. Langan and published in 1918, The Bernadotte Album, which purported to be " Founded on the memoirs of Marie Tascher and Désirée Clary.

Thus, Bernadotte hesitated to enter the war with full force, and only engaged in a campaign against Hamburg which on 30 June was re-conquered by allied French and Danish forces.

The Slovene territories were mostly occupied by the troops under the command of General Bernadotte who tried to calm the worried and scared population by issuing special public notices which were published also in the Slovene language.

Tradition has it that this coronation sword was a gift from Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, to the future king of Sweden and Norway, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, when he was made Marshal of France, which he carried at the battle of Leipzig.

In 1810 she worked actively to stop the Duke's attempts to be chosen as successor to the Swedish throne, which were linked with the duke's younger brother Charles August of Augustenburg becoming chosen by Swedes and then dying, after which Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France and Prince of Ponte Corvo, got elected.

As he would later explain, Bernadotte believed himself in an exposed position and thus took the initiative of abandoning Aderklaa during the night, retreating almost 1 kilometer to the southeast of the village, in a bid to draw closer to the rest of the army.

French by birth, Bernadotte served a long career in the French Army.

He was elected partly because a large part of the Swedish Army, in view of future complications with Russia, were in favour of electing a soldier, and partly because Bernadotte was also very popular in Sweden, owing to the kindness he had shown to the Swedish prisoners during the recent war with Denmark.

Having cleared Ney's troops out of the way, the Russians rolled down on the isolated French I Corps under Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte.

* IX ( Franco-Saxon ) Corps: 17, 000 men, 38 guns, under 46-year-old Maréchal d ' Empire Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, a commander who had acquired some fame during the Wars of the Revolution, but who often had strained relations with Napoleon ;

Nevertheless, the French troops were all very tired and the most difficult tasks were assigned to some of the weakest troops available, namely elements of the Corps of Bernadotte and Oudinot.

To the west, Maréchal Bernadotte, in command of the Saxon IX Corps, was preparing his own assault, planning to attack the Austrians at Deutsch-Wagram from the west.

Late that night, the French Corps commanders reunited at the Emperor's headquarters at Raasdorf ; only Bernadotte was absent, as he was still struggling to rally his routed infantry at Aderklaa.

The task of defending Aderklaa belonged to Maréchal Bernadotte, commander of the Saxon IX Corps of the Grande Armée d ' Allemagne.

At the Battle of Theiningen ( 1796 ), Bernadotte contributed, more than anyone else, to the successful retreat of the French army over the Rhine after its defeat by the Archduke Charles of Austria.

The current royal house of Sweden retains an imperial eagle on its Coat-of-Arms, as his founder, Jean Bernadotte, was Marshal of France.

The United Nations attempted to assert its authority over Jerusalem but the designated mediator, Count Bernadotte, was assassinated and the city ended up being split between Israel and Jordan.

Following a contentious debate on May 4, the assembly decided that Norway would profess itself to the Lutheran-Evangelical faith, that its monarch must always have professed himself to this faith ( thereby precluding the Catholic-born Bernadotte from being a king ), and that Jews and Jesuits would be barred from entering the kingdom.

Ney, with around 58, 000 men, renewed the advance on Berlin on 6 September, encountering mixed elements of Prussian, Russian, and Swedish troops under the overall command of Crown Prince Charles of Sweden ( formerly French Marshal Bernadotte ) at Dennewitz.

This attack was delayed, as Bernadotte had to wait for the arrival of Zezschwitz's division, but, at around 21: 00, the Saxons moved towards the village.

Bernadotte had unilaterally ordered his troops out of the key and central village of Aderklaa, citing heavy artillery shelling, an act that seriously compromised the entire French position.

In response to Himmler's attempts to open peace overtures with the Allies in 1945 through Count Bernadotte, Churchill enquired if they should negotiate with Himmler ' and bump him off later.

Finally, they were the great-grandsons of Jean Bernadotte ( Pau, 7 November 1649 – Pau, 14 July 1689 ) and wife ( m. Pau, 18 June 1674 ) Marie de la Barrère-Bertandot ; he was in turn the son of Pierre Bernadotte and wife Margalide Barraquer and paternal grandson of Joandou du Poey, born in 1590, and wife Germaine de Bernadotte.

As for the Saxons and great many Frenchmen, they continued their retreat, with the first fugitives, and Bernadotte, approaching Raasdorf, were they suddenly met Napoleon in person.

Napoleon had on 31 July instructed his Foreign Minister, Talleyrand, to inform the Danes that if they did not wish for Holstein to be invaded and occupied by Jean Bernadotte they must prepare for war against Britain.

Swedish troops led by Bernadotte took part in the Napoleonic Wars in 1813 and 1814, fighting against France ( they had a small role at the Battle of Leipzig ) and Denmark.