Editing Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II (section)

==Career==
Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and served in [[Texas]] with the [[Regiment of Mounted Riflemen]].<ref name="JBObit1893"/>

Bonaparte resigned from the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] in August 1854 to serve in the army of his first cousin-once-removed, Emperor [[Napoleon III]].  A few weeks later, he was commissioned as a lieutenant of dragoons in the [[French Army]]. He fought in the [[Crimean War]], [[Algeria]], the [[Austro-Sardinian War|Italian campaign]], and the [[Franco-Prussian War]], rising to the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]].<ref>Allen Johnson (dir.), ''[[Dictionary of American Biography]]'', Charles Scribner's Sons,  New York, 10 + 1 + 1 volumes, 1937–1964, volume 1 (Abbe — Brazer), 660 pages + 613 pages, entry « Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon » (1830–1893) page 429 (part 2 of volume 1 : Barsotti — Brazer) by T. M. S. (Thomas Marshall Spaulding).</ref> For his services, he was the recipient of the decoration of the [[Turkish Crimea Medal|Medjidie Order]] from [[Abdulmejid I]], the Sultan of Turkey, the [[Crimea Medal]] from Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and was made a knight of the [[Légion d'honneur]].<ref name="JBObit1893"/>

Following the [[Siege of Paris (1870–71)|Siege of Paris]], Bonaparte left the French Army and returned home to the [[United States]].<ref name="Macartney1939">Macartney, Charles Edward, and Dorrance, Gordon, ''[[The Bonapartes in America]]'', Dorrance and Company, Philadelphia, 1939.</ref>