Michele Carrascosa
Baron Michele Carrascosa (born April 11, 1774 in Palermo , Sicily , † May 10, 1852 in Naples ) was a Neapolitan general .
Life
In 1797 he took sides as a Neapolitan officer for the Parthenopean Republic, but escaped ostracism after the establishment of the kingship. He went under the banner of Joseph Napoleon and took part in the war in Spain as battalion chief . Promoted to higher military degrees under Murat , he had to fight the French in 1814 as division chief in the Austro-Neapolitan army. The next year, however, he moved with his division against the Austrians and, after the defeat at Talentino and after the meeting of San Germano, signed the military convention of Casalanza (May 20, 1815), according to Naplesreturned under the rule of the Bourbons .
Appointed Minister of War under the Restoration, in 1820 after the outbreak of the insurrection, as a free-spirited general, he was given supreme command of the troops, but could not prevent the victory of the rebels under Pepe and took over the war ministry in the new constitutional government. He was supposed to block the road from Terracina to Naples against the advancing Austrians , but was trapped in March 1821 and his corps was dispersed. After the revolution was suppressed, he escaped, condemned to death in contumaciam , to Barcelona and thence to England . In 1848 he returned to Naples, regained his military rank and was named a peer on June 24, 1848 after the coup d'état of May 15, 1848.
plant
- Michele Carrascosa: Mémoires historiques, politiques et militaires sur la révolution du Royaume de Naples en 1820 et 1821 et sur les causes qui l'ont amenée. Treuttel, Würtz, Treutel fils et Richter, London 1823. ( digitized version )
German edition:
- Michele Carrascosa: Historical, political and military memoirs about the revolution of the Kingdom of Naples in the years 1820 and 1821 and about the causes which brought about it: with mostly unprinted documents and a map. Friedrich Franckh, Stuttgart 1824. ( full text in the Google book search)
literature
- Vladimiro Sperber: Carrascosa, Michele. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 20: Carducci-Carusi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1977.
Web links
- Standard entry in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale .
- Publications by Carrascosa in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carrascosa, Michele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carrascosa, Baron Michele; Carrascosa y Zerezeda y Azebron, Michele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Neapolitan general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1852 |
| Place of death | Naples |