See also:

• CHASSE (Fr. for " chased ")
• CHASSE (from the Fr., in full chasse-cafe, or " coffee-chaser ")

CHASSE (Fr. for " chased ")  , a gliding step in dancing, so called since one See also:

• FOOT

foot is brought up behind or chases the other . The See also:

• CHASSE (Fr. for " chased ")
• CHASSE (from the Fr., in full chasse-cafe, or " coffee-chaser ")

chasse croise is a See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double variety of the step . CHASSELOUP-LAUBAT, See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS, See also:

• MARQUIS

MARQUIS DE (1754-1833), See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general and military engineer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at St Sernin (See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• CHARENTE

Charente) on the 18th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1754, of a See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble See also:

• FAMILY

family, and entered the French See also:

• ENGINEERS, MILITARY

engineers in 1774 . He was still a subaltern at the outbreak of the Revolution, becoming See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain in 1791 . His ability as a military engineer was recognized in the See also:

• CAMPAIGNS

campaigns of 1792 and 1793 . In the following See also:

• YEAR

year he won distinction in various actions and was promoted successively chef de bataillon and See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

colonel . He was See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of engineers at the See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of See also:

• MAINZ (Fr. Mayence)

Mainz in 1796, after which he was sent to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy . He there conducted the first siege of See also:

• MANTUA (Ital. Mantova)

Mantua, and reconnoitred thepositions and lines of advance of the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army of See also:

• BONAPARTE

Bonaparte . He was promoted general of See also:

• BRIGADE (Fr. and Ger. brigade, Ital. brigata, Span. brigada; the English use of the word dates from the early 17th century)

brigade before the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign, and was subsequently employed in fortifying the new See also:

• RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine frontier of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . His See also:

• WORK

work as chief of engineers in the army of Italy (1799) was conspicuously successful, and after the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Novi he was made general of See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division . When See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon took 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 in 'Soo to retrieve the disasters of 1799, he again selected Chasseloup as his engineer general . During the See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace of 18o1-18o5 he was chiefly employed in reconstructing the defences of See also:

• NORTHERN

northern Italy, and in particular the afterwards famous See also:

• QUADRILATERAL

Quadrilateral .

His chef-d'oeuvre was the See also:

• GREAT

great fortress of'See also:

• ALESSANDRIA

Alessandria on the Tanaro . In 18o5 he remained in Italy with See also:

• MASSENA, ANDRE, or ANDREA

Massena, but at the end of 18o6 Napoleon, then engaged in the See also:

• POLISH

Polish campaign, called him to the Grande Armee, with which he served in the campaign of 1806-07, directing the sieges of Colberg, See also:

• DANZIG, or DANTSIC (Polish Gdansk)

Danzig and See also:

• STRALSUND

Stralsund . During the See also:

• NAPOLEONIC

Napoleonic domination in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, Chasseloup reconstructed many fortresses, in particular See also:

• MAGDEBURG

Magdeburg . In the campaign of 1809 he again served in Italy . In 1810 Napoleon made him a councillor of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state . His last campaign was that of 1812 in See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia . He retired from active service soon afterwards, though in 18x4 he was occasionally engaged in the inspection and construction of fortifications . See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XVIII. made him a peer of France and a,See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

knight of St Louis . He refused to join Napoleon in the See also:

• HUNDRED

Hundred Days, but after the second Restoration he voted in the chamber of peers against the condemnation of See also:

• MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

Marshal See also:

• NEY, MICHEL

Ney . In politics he belonged to the constitutional party . The See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king created him a marquis . Chasseloup's later years were employed chiefly in putting in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order his See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts, a task which he had to abandon owing to the failure of his sight .

His only published work was Correspondance d'un general See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

francais, &c. sur See also:

• DIVERS

divers sujets (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 18o1, republished See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, 18o5 and 1811, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Correspondance de deux generals, &c., essais sur quelques parties d'artillerie et de fortification) . The most important of his papers are in See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript in the See also:

• DEPOT (from the Fr. depot, Lat. depositum, laid down; the French accent marks are usually dispensed with in English)

Depot of Fortifications, Paris . As an engineer Chasseloup was an adherent, though of advanced views, of the old bastioned See also:

• SYSTEM

system . He followed in many respects the engineer Bousmard, whose work was published in 1797 and who See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell, as a Prussian officer, in the See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of Danzig in 1807 against Chasseloup's own attack . His front was applied to Alessandria, as has been stated, and contains many elaborations of the See also:

• BASTION (through the Fr. from late Lat. bastire, to build)

bastion trace, with, in particular, masked flanks in the tenaille, which served as extra flanks of the bastions . The bastion itself was carefully and minutely retrenched . The See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary ravelin he replaced by a heavy casemated See also:

• CAPONIER (from the Fr. caponniere, properly a capon-cote or house)

caponier after the example of See also:

• MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES RENE DE (1810-1870)
• MONTALEMBERT, MARC

Montalembert, and, like Bousmard's, his own ravelin was a large and powerful work pushed out beyond the See also:

• GLACIS

glacis .