Maurice Persat

Maurice Persat (Puy-de-Dôme, Ennezat April 30, 1788 - 1858), a French officer and writer, participant  of the Napoleonic wars and revolutionary wars in Latin America, Greece and Spain.

Biography
Persat was born in Puy-de-Dome in central France in 1788. He was a captain of cavalry in Napoleon's army. He received the Order of the "Legion of Honor" from the hands of Napoleon in 1813. After" one hundred days" he was retired with half of salary. He form a rebel force of the Loire, but was exiled during the Restoration. He also participate in a conspiracy for rescuing of Napoleon from the island of St. Helen. In 1817, he emigrate to the United States. In 1818, he joined the army of Simón Bolívar, but was disappointed with leaders and by February 1819 went to the island of Martinique. He returned to France and again took part in the Napoleonic plot. He participate in the Neapolitan revolution and was imprisoned by the Austrians, but escape. Since the beginning of the Greek Revolution in 1821, he went to Greece to participate in the War of Independence against the Ottomans. He was one of the first officers of the 1st Battalion of the regular Greek army, which by order of the Demetrios Ypsilantis was organized in July 1821 in the town of Kalamata Peloponnese by born on Crete Corsican Joseph Balest. After Greece, Persat went to Spain and took part in battles against the forces of the Duke of Angoulême (Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême), as commander of a cavalry detachment under the command of Francisco Espoz y Mina. In the years 1838-1839, he wrote "Memoirs 1806-1844", which, however, remained unpublished until 1910.