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7 unusual facts about Bernadotte


Bernadotte, Illinois

Until the early 1940s, Bernadotte had a population of about four hundred people when it was razed, with the exception of one building, to become part of the Camp Ellis prisoner of war and training camp during World War II.

Bernadotte is named for the French Marshal who later became King of Sweden.

Bernadotte, Minnesota

Bernadotte is an unincorporated community located in Bernadotte Township, Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States.

Carl Johan Adlercreutz

Adlercreutz proposed that he himself should be made king, but the French General Bernadotte was chosen instead as Crown Prince Charles XIII.

Constitution of Norway

Putting the strategic situation and his own abdication to good use, he persuaded the Swedish crown prince Carl Johan (the former Marshal Bernadotte of France) to let the Norwegians keep their constitution.

Politics of Sweden

The Act of Succession is a treaty between the old Riksdag of the Estates and The House of Bernadotte regulating their rights to accede to the Swedish throne.

Some Swedish political figures that have become known worldwide include Joe Hill, Carl Skoglund, Raoul Wallenberg, Folke Bernadotte, Dag Hammarskjöld, Olof Palme, Carl Bildt, Hans Blix, and Anna Lindh.


Battle of Eylau

At once Bernadotte was left unawares and a forewarned Bennigsen immediately ordered a retreat east to Jonkowo to avoid the trap.

Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg

Bernadotte lost his succession rights to the Swedish throne and renounced his titles in 1946 when he married in New York City, New York on 19 February a woman who was not of equal rank (i.e., not of a sovereign house), the journalist Elin Kerstin Margaretha Wijkmark (Stockholm, 4 October 1910 – Båstad, 11 September 1987), daughter of Henning Wijkmark and wife Elin Larsson.

Danish design

The Bernadotte & Bjørn studio, established in 1950, was the first to specialise in industrial design, with an emphasis on office machines, domestic appliances and functional articles such as the thermos jug.

Norway in 1814

He learned that Prussia and Austria were waning in their support of Sweden's claims to Norway, that Tsar Alexander I of Russia (a distant cousin of Christian Frederik's) favored a Swedish-Norwegian union but not with Bernadotte as the king, and that the United Kingdom was looking for a solution to the problem that would keep Norway out of Russia's influence.

Prince Bernadotte

Prince Bernadotte was an hereditary title in the Nobility of Belgium, conferred upon Carl Bernadotte (the former Prince Carl of Sweden, Duke of Östergötland) by Leopold III of Belgium on 6 July 1937.

Ulm Campaign

Mack believed that the French would not violate Prussian territory, but when he heard that Bernadotte's I Corps had marched through Prussian Ansbach, he made the critical decision to stay and defend Ulm rather than retreat to the south, which would have offered a reasonable opportunity at saving the bulk of his forces.

Yehoshua Zettler

On September 17, 1948, Bernadotte came to Jerusalem in a car with General Åge Lundström on his way to meet Israeli official Dov Yosef, who was then the military governor of the Israeli-controlled portion of Jerusalem's New City.


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