I doodled that one story of a young Michel Ney getting dragged by his braid

According to the Marshal Michel Ney’s 1912 biography:

To the year 1791, when Michel Ney was still “brigadier,” belongs the story of his only recorded duel. The fencing-master of the Chasseurs de Vintimille, who were also in garrison at Metz, had challenged the fencing-master of the Hussars Colonel-Général, and wounded him badly. After this the victor behaved in an insulting and provoking way whenever he met the hussars. The non-commissioned officers of the regiment held a meeting and decided that a stop must be put to his insolence, and Ney was chosen as the champion who was to fight him.

The challenge was accepted and the two swordsmen met in the presence of deputations of their comrades. They had just crossed swords when Ney felt himself pulled backwards by some one who had taken a firm grip of his plaited pig-tail. Turning he saw that it was his Colonel, who had thus unceremoniously interrupted the duel. The military code of the day made it a serious offence and Ney was marched off to prison, But a petition of his comrades led to his being set free with a caution in a few days.

Sorry for the low effort doodles lately 😭 I just love doing them 😔😩🙏