Michelle Ney on the battlefield

Ney was born on January 10, 1769 in Saarlouis, a town in Saarland, Germany, on the French border. His father, Pierre Ney, was a veteran of the Seven Years 'War. He participated in the Battle of Rossbach and later returned to his hometown. He settled down and engaged in his pre-military career-repairing beer barrels, and married a woman named Margaret. Their first son was born in 1767 and named Jean Ney. On June 19, 1799, Jean Ney was killed in battle in the Battle of Trebia. In 1769, their second son was born, the future Marshal Michel Ney. Their third son, Jacob Ney, was born on March 7, 1771 and died early. Her daughter, also named Margaret, was born on October 7, 1772. She was married twice. Her second husband, Jean-Claude Monier, had a rich job in the Imperial National Service, and Monier was already a fairly wealthy man when the Bourbons dismissed him in 1815. Mrs. Monier died in 1819. Pierre Ney noticed early on that his second son was very smart and wanted him to inherit the family business, but Margaret had longer-term plans, so they decided to send Ney to school. He studied at Collège des Augustins and became a notary after graduation, but he did not like this life sitting at his desk. Every afternoon when the local army changed troops, his copying was always full of mistakes. Perhaps influenced by his father, or with the blood of soldiers in his bones, he longed for a more adventurous life.

In the autumn of 1784, he left Saar-Louis for an ore and metallurgical factory in Ominville. Michelle still works in an office this time but he also works on the assembly line, where he learns about the process of turning ore into malleable iron. Because of his cleverness, the following year, Michel went to the ironwork factory in Salek to supervise, where he learned how iron was made into machines and how it became what it looked like when it was sold. In the autumn of 1788, Michelle left Salek, where she had worked for three years, and planned to return to Saar-Louis to visit her parents. He then went to Metz, where he joined a regiment of hussars on December 6. From then on, Michelle Ney withdrew from life as a blacksmith and a factory and began a long military career. Michel joined the 5th Cavalry Regiment, also known as the Regiment Colonel-general.

In his early years, Ney was an ideal army commander and expert in rear defense. His incredible bravery and fearlessness won the love of his soldiers, and naturally, his enemies were very afraid of him. As a commander, he was very proactive, but he was too reckless and impulsive. His performance in the last few years was undoubtedly influenced by the painful experience of the Russian campaign, coupled with his unsuitability for command positions above the commander of the army, and he made many mistakes. Although not his entire responsibility for Waterloo's failure, it also bore important responsibility. Perhaps dying in the execution ground would be his best fate.