SIMON

See also:

• BERNARD, CHARLES DE
• BERNARD, CLAUDE (1813-1878)
• BERNARD, JACQUES (1658--1718)
• BERNARD, MOUNTAGUE (1S2o—1882)
• BERNARD, SAINT
• BERNARD, SAINT (Iogo-1153)
• SIMON BERNARD (1779—1839)
• BERNARD, SIR THOMAS, BART

BERNARD (1779—1839)  , French general of engineers, was born at Dole, educated at the I cole Polytechniquc, and entered the army in the corps of engineers._ He rose rapidly, and served (1805-1812) as aide-de-camp to Napoleon . He was wounded in the retreat after Leipzig. and distinguished himself the same year (1813) in the gallant defence of Torgau against the allies . After the emperor's fall he emigrated to the United States, where, being made a brigadier-general of engineers, he executed a number of extensive military works for the government, notably at Fortress Monroe, Va., and around New York, and did a large amount of the civil engineering connected with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Delaware Breakwater . He returned to France after the revolution of 1830, was made a lieutenant-general by Louis Philippe, and in 1836 served as minister of war .