{"id":356,"date":"2024-11-11T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/?page_id=356"},"modified":"2024-11-11T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T14:43:16","slug":"bernardi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/?page_id=356","title":{"rendered":"Bernardi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ottavio Bernardi (Verona, 23 December 1770 \u2013 1817)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A nobleman, son of a count who was senator of the Venetian Republic, Bernardi<ins> <\/ins>studied at the Verona military school from 1785 to 1791, leaving as an ensign in the engineering corps; he then came back to teach mathematics, fortification and artillery. He entered French service as a major in the Veronese battalion on 2 August 1797, passed into Cisalpine service the following year in the same battalion, merged into the 7<sup>th<\/sup> line <em>demi-brigade<\/em>. He sat the examination on 4 April 1798 and was ranked a captain 1<sup>st<\/sup> class, though keeping his rank as an infantry major. In 1799 he was taken prisoner at Peschiera. He was promoted to battalion chief on 9 October 1800<del>,<\/del> while he was commander-in-chief of the engineers of the Italian division; he was then elected a member of the consulta of Lyon. He was not promoted afterwards, but in 1807 was appointed chief of the sapper battalion, a role he held until 1811. (Cf. MSA, WO 541, EBA, b. 42, f. 6, Liberati Arnaldo, Emilio Belgieri and Giuseppe Belgieri. 1997. Gli ufficiali veronesi nelle armate napoleoniche (1796-1815), in <em>La provincia veronese e Arcole nella storia e nella cultura dell&#8217;et\u00e0 napoleonica<\/em>, ed. Giancarlo Volpato.&nbsp; Arcole: Consorzio per le celebrazioni del bicentenario della battaglia di Arcole, 1997: 355-356).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottavio Bernardi (Verona, 23 December 1770 \u2013 1817) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A nobleman, son of a count who was senator of the Venetian Republic, Bernardi studied at the Verona military school from 1785 to 1791, leaving as an ensign in the engineering corps; he then came back to teach mathematics, fortification and artillery. He entered French service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-356","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions\/357"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}