St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-20
PICTUREsQUEAvE TERAN.
Michael Limo, the Last Survivor o.
the Grand Army of Napoleon.

the Grand Army of Napoleon.
Courier DIES Etats Unis.
The Italian papers report the recent
arrival at the railroad station of Baretto,
near Reggie. Central Italy, of a strange
looking parsonage who was the object
of considerable curiosity. He was tall
and noble-looking man with long
white beard, who presented to the mayor
feuillede route, signed by Baron Mar
Occhettl, the Italian ambassador at st.
Petersburg, inviting the Italian author
tiles to take good care of the bearer,
Michel Linovich, of Orenburg, Russia.
In reality the mysterious old man was
an Italian named Limo, born at BarettO
los years ago, and perhaps the last liv-
ing relic of the Grande Armee of 1872.
Belonging to family of farmers Limo
formed part of the CONSUMPTION of the
kingdom of Italy in 1905, and was en-
rolled in the imperial guard. With his
regiment he went through the campaign
of 1867 in Prussia, and fought at Jena
and at Friedland. Later he was sent
with his battalion to Dalmatia, and
thence to Spain with the division of
OF continual fighting. Wounded in an
assault, he returned to his native coun-
try, where he remained for two years,
working on his fathers farm.
On the outbreak of the terrible storm
which was destined to carry off to Rus
STA the flower of the Franco-Italian
youth, Napoleon called under his victor
iOus eagles his old soldiers. Limo re-
joined the service as sergeant of the
grenadier guards, and with the rest Of
the Cls-Alplne army, under tn e cOm
mand of Eugene Beauharnais. formed
part of the Grande Armee. Limo tough
against the Russians at SmolenSk and
MOSkOva, where he lifted from the field
of battle the mortally wounded Gen.
Plangonne. After that he entered Mos
cow with Napoleon, and finally, in the
bloody battle of the Oath of October,
while fighting under the orders of Gen.
Pine, he was TIA ken prisoner. after hav-
ing been severely wounded by the Cos
sacks of PlatoW.
Transported with a large convoy of
French prisoners to OreDburg, he was
sent with a few of his comrades to
distant village. situated at the foot OF
the Caucasus, where, although kindly
treated by the Russians. he had to
suffer cruel privatiOns during ten years.
Tired at last of such a miserable exist
ence, he asked and obtained permission
to join the Russian army as "a private
soldier. In this capacity he passed
through the campaign of the Caucasus
in 1929.
At the close of the war he obtained as
the reward for his services a little piece
OF ground which he cultivated.
When he was fOrty-six years old he
married young Polish girl named Ne
rawska, who died in 1855. The three
sons that he had by this woman also
died, leaving the old soldier alone in
the world. Then Limo returned to
Orenberg, where the people Russian
lied his name into Lin0vich. He lived
there in comparative camfort for many
years. Gifted with an extraordinary
energy of mind and body, he was still
strong enough to catch nostalgia.
When more than 100 years old, the
old veteran at last became homesick
after twenty-eight years of exile. lie
resolved at all hazards to return to his
native land and there pass the remain
der of his eventful career. Through
the influence of the Italian ambassador
at st. Petersburg he was sent home to
Italy at the expense OF the Italian gov
eminent. Limo is EOw in an asylum at
Reggie, where he is cared for with par
ticular attention. AS he was born in
1855, he is now los years old, the glori-
Gus survivor of hundred battles, and
probably the last of the heroes who
fought at Jena, Friedland and Boro-
dino.