Florestano Pepe was an Italian patriot. He was brother to the more famous general Guglielmo Pepe

Guglielmo Pepe

Guglielmo Pepe was an Italian general and patriot. He was brother to Florestano Pepe and cousin to Gabriele Pepe. He married to Marianne Coventry, a Scottish woman.-Biography:Pepe was born at Squillace in Calabria....

 and cousin to Gabriele Pepe

Gabriele Pepe

Gabriele Pepe was an Italian soldier who fought in defence of the Neapolitan Republic in 1799. He was cousin to Guglielmo and Florestano Pepe....

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Pepe was born in Squillace

Squillace

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 (Calabria

Calabria

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) and entered the Two Sicilies army at young age. In 1799 he was amongst the defenders of the Neapolitan Republic. Defeated by the Bourbon troops under Cardinal Ruffo

Fabrizio Ruffo

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, he was captured and exiled to France

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He fought in numerous battles of the Napoleonic Wars

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 under Joseph Bonaparte

Joseph Bonaparte

Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily , and later King of Spain...

 and Joachim Murat

Joachim Murat

Joachim-Napoléon Murat , Marshal of France and Grand Admiral or Admiral of France, 1st Prince Murat, was Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808 and then King of Naples from 1808 to 1815...

. He was chief of staff of the Neapolitan Division of Marshal Suchet

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's army in the Peninsular War

Peninsular War

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 (1809), and took part in the Russian Campaign

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 of 1812. He was also a protagonist of the Neapolitan Revolution of 1820; wounded, he retired to private life.

Florestano Pepe died in Naples

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in 1851.