After it was disbanded, he received a commission in Dillon's Regiment, Irish Brigade of the French Royal Army. In 1784, Macdonald joined the Irish Legion, raised to support the revolutionary party in the Dutch Republic against the Kingdom of Prussia and was made lieutenant on 1 April 1785. In contrast, Neil not only vowed his own forever loyalty to the Prince, but followed him into exile in France, where he married into the nobility. Flora, he alleged, had carefree steps and accordingly sought to curry favor with both the Stuarts and Hanoverians at the same time, instead of making a choice and sticking with it. In a Gaelic poem composed, however, after his release from the Tower of London, Niall mac Eachainn mhic Sheumais, who had also risked his own life to protect the hunted Prince, harshly criticized his cousin Flora MacDonald. Similarly to fellow Gaelic poet and Jacobite officer Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Neil Macdonald was a close relative of the far more famous Flora MacDonald, who aided the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart to France after the defeat of the 1745 Rising at the Battle of Culloden. Neil Macdonald briefly studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood in Paris, where he had developed a fluency in the French language that later endeared him to Prince Charles Edward Stuart. His father was exiled Jacobite Army veteran and war poet Neil MacEachen MacDonald ( Scottish Gaelic: Niall mac Eachainn mhic Sheumais), who had been born into Clan MacDonald of Clanranald at Howbeg in South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald was born in Sedan, Ardennes, France. Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, 1st Duke of Taranto (17 November 1765 – 25 September 1840 ), was a Marshal of the Empire and military leader during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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