Felice Orsini
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Felice Orsini was an Italian revolutionary and leader of the Carbonari who tried to assassinate Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.
Felice Orsini
1850s notice depicting Orsini
Charles DeRudio
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Charles Camillo DeRudio was an Italian aristocrat, would-be assassin of Napoleon III, and later a career U.S. Army officer who fought in the 7th U.S. Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bigho
Felice Orsini
…Orsini returned to Paris with the bombs and contacted other conspirators, Giovanni Andrea Pieri, Antonio Gomez and Carlo di Rudio (later changed to Charles DeRudio). On the evening of 14 January 1858, as the Emperor and Empress were on their way to the theatre in the Rue Le Peletier, the precursor of the Opera…
Charles C. DeRudio