See also:JEAN See also:ETIENNE See also:CHAMPIONNET (1762-1800)
, See also:French See also:general, enlisted in the See also:army at an See also:early See also:age and served in the See also:great See also:siege of See also:Gibraltar
.
When the Revolution See also:broke out he took a prominent See also:part in the See also:movement, and was elected by the men of a See also:battalion to command them
.
In May 1793 he was charged with the suppression of the disturbances in the See also:Jura, which he quelled without bloodshed
.
Under See also:Pichegru he took part in the See also:Rhine See also:campaign of that See also:year as a See also:brigade See also:commander, and at See also:Weissenburg and in the See also:Palatinate won the warm See also:commendation of Lazare See also:Roche
.
At See also:Fleurus his stubborn fighting
in the centre of the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field contributed greatly to See also:Jourdan's victory
.
In the subsequent See also:campaigns he commanded the See also:left wing of the French armies on the Rhine between Neuwied and See also:Dusseldorf, and took a great part in all the successful and unsuccessful expeditions to the See also:Lahn and the See also:Main
.
In 1798 See also:Championnet was named commander-in-See also:chief of the " army of See also:Rome " which was protecting the See also:infant See also:Roman See also:republic against the Neapolitan See also:court and the See also:British See also:fleet
.
Nominally 32,000 strong, the army scarcely numbered 8000 effectives, with a See also:bare fifteen cartridges per See also:man
.
The See also:Austrian general Mack had a tenfold superiority in See also:numbers, but Championnet so well held his own that he ended by capturing See also:Naples itself and there setting up the Parthenopean Republic
.
But his intense earnestness and intolerance of opposition soon embroiled him with the civilians, and the general was recalled in disgrace
.
The following year, however, saw him again in the field as commander-in-chief of the " army of the See also:Alps." This, too, was at first a See also:mere See also:paper force, but after three months' hard See also:work it was able to take the field
.
The campaign which followed was uniformly unsuccessful, and, worn out by the unequal struggle, Championnet died at See also:Antibes on the 9th of See also:January 1800
.
In 1848 a statue was erected in his See also:honour at See also:Valence
.
See A
.
R
.
C. de St Albin, Championnet, ou See also:les Campagges de Hollande, de Rome et de Naples (See also:Paris, i86o)
.
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