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290 The Chevalier, writing many years after the events occurred, has rather mixed up his dates. Of the Duke of Ragusa (Marmont) who was the first governor of Illyria he says nothing. General J. is, of course, Junot He went out of his mind, and it is most likely he was kidnapped in the manner stated. A very few months later he threw himself out of window, fractured his thigh and died of the effects of the consequent amputation,—July, 1813. "General B——," who preceded, not followed Junot, as the Chevalier states,—was Bertrand. There were several officers of this name. The one mentioned, I believe, was not the Bertrand who accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena, but a skilful engineer, who was removed from his command in Illyria and sent to fortify Antwerp, and render it—"a pistol held at the breast of England." He afterwards resided in the United States where he undertook several important engineering works. Joseph Fouche, Duke of Otranto, was such a well-known personage that he will be found mentioned in any good biographical dictionary.