Wolfe Tone - Descendants

Descendants

Wolfe Tone's only surviving son was William Theobald Wolfe Tone (both the eldest two children died prematurely: Maria, b. 1786, Dublin, d. 1803, Paris, France, of consumption i.e. tuberculosis and Richard, b 1787/1789, died in infancy. A fourth child, Francis Rawdon Tone, b. 23 Jun 1793 died 1806, of T.B.). Raised in France by his mother after the death of his father. Appointed a cadet in the Imperial School of Cavalry in 1810 by order of Napoleon. He was naturalized a French citizen on May 4, 1812. In Jan. 1813 he was made sub-lieutenant in the 8th Regiment of Chasseurs and joined the Grand Army in Germany (nom de guerre - Le Petit Loup). He was at the battles of Löwenberg, Goldberg, Dresden, Bauthen, Mühlberg, Acken, and Leipzig. He received six lance wounds at the Battle of Leipzig, was promoted to lieutenant and aide-de-camp of General Bagneres and was decorated with the Legion of Honor. After Waterloo, he immigrated to the United States, where he was commissioned a Captain in the United States Army. (According to granddaughter Katherine Ann Maxwell, he was a Captain of Chasseurs in the French Army and a second lieutenant in the U.S. Cavalry, and his date of death is 11 Oct, 1828.)