The Westmeath emigrant who found himself at the heart of the Napoleonic wars
General Laval Nugent led 8,000 soldiers into Italy to depose ‘First Horseman of Europe’
Nathan Mannion

"It’s not every day that you hear a man from Westmeath led an army of 8,000 Austrian soldiers deep into southern Italy to depose a Frenchman. Yet it’s entirely true. That man was general Laval Nugent...."

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