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4 unusual facts about Pasquale Paoli


Devota

However, the diffusion of her cult continued and Pasquale Paoli created a short-lived "Order of Saint-Devote" in 1757 during the movement for Corsican independence.

Macinaggio

Pasquale Paoli landed on July 14, 1790 at the Port of Macinaggio, where he was welcomed by the inhabitants of Rogliano.

Torra di Nonza

The tower of Nonza is famous throughout Corsica for its siege in 1768, during the war between Pasquale Paoli's independent Corsica and France.

Victor Huguenin

A bronze statue of Pasquale Paoli by Huguenin was erected in 1864 the center of the Place Paoli in Corte, Corsica.


Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Born in Laon, Aisne to middle-class parents, he became a lieutenant of the Laon militia, and then entered the French royal army, served in the Seven Years' War campaigns in Hanover (1759), Portugal (1762), and against Pasquale Paoli in Corsica (1771).


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