See also:COMTE DE PHILIPPE See also:HENRI See also:GRIMOARD (1753-1815)
, See also:French soldier and military writer, 'entered the royal See also:army at
the See also:age of sixteen, and in' 1775 published his Essai theorique et practique sur See also:les batailles
.
Shortly afterwards 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 XVI
.
placed him in his own military , See also:cabinet and employed him especially in connexion with schemes of army reform
.
' By the' See also:year of the Revolution he had become one of Louis's most valued counsellors, in See also:political as well as military matters, and was marked out, though only a See also:colonel, as the next See also:Minister of See also:War
.
" In '791 See also:Grimoard was entrusted with the preparation of the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of See also:defence for See also:France, which proved two years
later of See also:great assistance to the See also:Committee of Public Safety
.
The events of 1792 put an end to his military career; and the
See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent in See also:writing military books
.
The following See also:works by him, besides his first See also:essay, have retained some, importance : Histoire See also:des dernikres campagnes de See also:Turenne (See also:Paris, 1780), Lettres et memoires de Turenne (Paris, 178o), Troupes legeres et leur emploi (Paris, 1782), See also:Con 4tes de Gustave-Adolphe (See also:Stockholm and Neufchatel, ' 1782—17917) ; Memoires de Gustave Adolphe (Paris, 1790), See also:Correspondence of See also:Marshal See also:Richelieu (Paris, 1789), St Germain (1789), and See also:Bemis (1790), See also:Vie et regne,de See also:Frederic le See also:Grand (See also:London, 1788), Lettres et memoires du marechal de See also:Saxe (Paris, 1794), L'Expidition de Minorque en T756 (Paris, 1798), Recherches sur in force de l'armee francaise depuis See also:Henri IV jusqu'en 1805 (Paris, ,8o6), Memoires du marechal de Tesse (Paris, 18o6), Lettres de See also:Bolingbroke (Paris, 18o8), Traite sur le service d'etat-See also:major (Paris, 1809), and (with See also:Servan) Tableau historique de in guerre de in Revolution 1792—1794 (Paris, ,8o8)
.
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