Nov 17, 2020
On Marshal MacDonald
“MacDonald was certainly a physical survivor; for thirty years he had escaped the slaughter of countless battlefields, from Russia to Spain, from Holland to Italy. He was also, undoubtedly, a political survivor, for he had pursued his career through many coups d’état, intrigues and revolutions, and under regimes of every hour and shade, from the monarchy of Louis XVI to that of Charles X, from the radical republicanism of the Terror to the Imperial absolutism of Napoléon. More important, he had done so without compromising his name, honour and reputation.”
Source: “The French MacDonald: Journey of a Marshal of Napoléon in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland” by Jean-Didier Hache