Gaeta was turned into a duché grand-fief in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples with the French name of "Gaete". The duchy was awarded to finance minister Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin on 15 August 1809. After the collapse of the Joachim Murat's kingdom in the Neapolitan War, Gaeta was the last city to hold out. The 1815 siege lasted from 28 May to 8 August before the surviving 133 officers and 1,629 men of the Neapolitan garrison surrendered to Austrian General-major Joseph von Lauer.