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MARQUIS DE EMMANUEL GROUCHY (1766-1847)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 625 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARQUIS DE See also:EMMANUEL See also:GROUCHY (1766-1847)  , See also:marshal of See also:France, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 23rd of See also:October 1766 . He entered the See also:French See also:artillery in 1779, transferred to the See also:cavalry in 1782, and to the Gardes du See also:corps in 1786 . In spite of his aristocratic See also:birth and his connexions with the See also:court, he was a convinced supporter of the principles of the Revolution, and had in consequence to leave the See also:Guards . About the See also:time of the outbreak of See also:war in 1792 he became See also:colonel of a cavalry See also:regiment, and soon afterwards, as a marechal de See also:camp, he was sent to serve on the See also:south-eastern frontier . In 1793 he distinguished himself in La See also:Vendee, and was promoted See also:general of See also:division . See also:Grouchy was shortly afterwards deprived of his See also:rank as being of See also:noble birth, but in 1795 he was again placed on the active See also:list . He served on the See also:staff of the See also:Army of See also:Ireland (1796-1797), and took a conspicuous See also:part in the Irish expedition . In 1798 he administered the See also:civil and military See also:government of See also:Piedmont at the time of the See also:abdication of the See also:king of See also:Sardinia, and in 1799 he distinguished himself greatly as a divisional See also:commander in the See also:campaign against the Austrians and Russians . In covering the See also:retreat of the French after the defeat of Novi, Grouchy received fourteen wounds and was taken prisoner . On his See also:release he returned to France . In spite of his having protested against the coup d'etat of the 18th of See also:Brumaire he was at once re-employed by the First See also:Consul, and distinguished himself again at Hohenlinden . It was not See also:long before he accepted the new regime in France, and from 18o1 onwards he was employed by See also:Napoleon in military and See also:political positions of importance .

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Austria in 1805, in See also:Prussia in 18o6, See also:Poland in 1807, See also:Spain in 18o8, and commanded the cavalry of the Army of See also:Italy in 1809 in the See also:Viceroy See also:Eugene's advance to See also:Vienna . In 1812 he was made commander of one of the four cavalry corps of the See also:Grand Army, and during the retreat from See also:Moscow Napoleon appointed him to command the escort See also:squadron, which was composed entirely of picked See also:officers . His almost continuous service with the cavalry led Napoleon to decline in 1813 to See also:place Grouchy at the See also:head of an army corps, and Grouchy thereupon retired to France . In1814, however, he hastened to take part in the defensive campaign in France, and he was severely wounded at Craonne . At the Restoration he was deprived of the See also:post of colonel-general of chasseurs a cheval and retired . He joined Napoleon on his return from See also:Elba, and was made marshal and peer of France . In the campaign of See also:Waterloo he commanded the reserve cavalry of the army, and after Ligny he was appointed to command the right wing to pursue the Prussians . The See also:march on See also:Wavre, its See also:influence on the result of the campaign, and the controversy to which Grouchy's conduct on the See also:day of Waterloo has given rise, are dealt with briefly in the See also:article WATERLOO CAMPAIGN, and at length in nearly every See also:work on the campaign of 1815 . Here it is only necessary to say that on the 17th Grouchy was unable to See also:close with the Prussians, and on the 18th, though urged to march towards the See also:sound of the guns of Waterloo, he permitted himself, from whatever cause, to be held up by a Prussian rearguard while the Prussians and See also:English See also:united to crush Napoleon . On the 19th Grouchy won a See also:smart victory over the Prussians at Wavre, but it was then too See also:late . So far as resistance was possible after the See also:great disaster, Grouchy made it . He gathered up the wrecks of Napoleon's army, and retired, swiftly and unbroken, to Paris, where, after interposing his reorganized forces between the enemy and the See also:capital, he resigned his command into the hands of Marshal See also:Davout .

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rest of his See also:life was spent in defending himself . An See also:attempt to have him condemned to See also:death by a court-See also:martial failed, but he was exiled and lived in See also:America till amnestied in 1821 . On his return to France he was reinstated as general, but not as marshal nor as peer of France . For many years thereafter he was equally an See also:object of aversion to the court party, as a member of their own See also:caste who had followed the Revolution and Napoleon, and to his comrades of the Grand Army as the supposed betrayer of Napoleon . In 183o See also:Louis Philippe gave him back the marshal's See also:baton and restored him to the Chamber of Peers . He died at St-See also:Etienne on the 29th of May 1847 . See See also:Marquis de Grouchy, Memoires du marechal Marquis de Grouchy (Paris, 1873-1874); General Marquis de Grouchy, Le General Grouchy en Mande (Paris, 1866), and Le Marechal Grouchy du 16 au 18 juin, 1815 (Paris, 1864) ; Appel a l'histoire sur See also:les faites de l'aile droite de l'armee francaise (Paris, n.d.); Severe See also:Justice sur les fails . . . du 28 juin an 3 juillet, 1815 (Paris, 1866) ; and the literature of the Waterloo campaign . Marshal Grouchy himself wrote the following: Observations sur la relation de la campagne de 1815 See also:par le general de See also:Gourgaud (See also:Philadelphia and Paris, 1818) ; Refutation de quelques articles See also:des memoires de M. le Duc de See also:Rovigo (Paris, 1829); Fragments historiques relatifs a la campagne et a la bataille de Waterloo (Paris, 1829-183o, in reply to See also:Barthelemy and Wry, and to Marshal See also:Gerard) ; Reclamation du marechal de Grouchy (Paris, 1834) ; Plainte contre le general See also:Baron Berthezene (Berthezene, .formerly a divisional commander under Gerard, stated in reply to this See also:defence that he had no intention of accusing Grouchy of See also:ill faith) . GROUND-See also:ICE,' ice formed at the bottom of streams while the temperature of the See also:water is above freezing-point . Every-thing points to See also:radiation as the See also:prime cause of the formation of ground-ice . It is formed only under a clear See also:sky, never in cloudy See also:weather; it is most readily formed on dark rocks, and never under any covering such as a See also:bridge, and rarely under See also:surface-ice .

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Professor See also:Howard T . See also:Barnes of McGill University concludes that the radiation from a See also:river See also:bed in See also:cold and clear nights goes through the water in long rays that penetrate much more easily from below upwards than the See also:sun's See also:heat rays from above down-wards, which are mostly absorbed by the first few feet of water . On a cold clear See also:night, therefore, the radiation from the bottom is excessive, and loosely-grown spongy masses of See also:anchor-ice See also:form on the bottom, which on the following See also:bright sunny day receive just sufficient heat from the sun to detach the See also:mass of ' The O . Eng. word grund,ground,is See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf . Du. grond, Ger . Grund, but has no cognates outside Teutonic . The See also:suggestion that the origin is to be found in " grind," to crush small, reduce to See also:powder, is plausible, but the See also:primary meaning seems to be the lowest part or bottom of anything rather than grit, See also:sand or See also:gravel . The See also:main branches in sense appear to be, first, bottom, as of the See also:sea or a river, cf. the use, in the plural, for dregs; second, See also:base or See also:foundation, actual, as of the first or main surface of a See also:painting, fabric, &c., or figurative, as of a principle or See also:reason; third, the surface of the See also:earth, or a particular part of that surface . ice, which rises to the surface with considerable force . It is probable that owing to surface tension a thin film of stationary water rests upon the boulders and sand over which a stream flows, and that this, becoming frozen owing to radiation, forms the foundation for the anchor-ice and produces a surface upon which the descending frazil-ice (see below) can See also:lodge . The theory of radiation from the boulders is supported by the fact that as the ice is formed upon them in response to a sudden fall in the See also:air temperature, it is only released under the influence of a strong rise of temperature during the See also:morning . It may not rise for several days, but the See also:advent of bright sunlight is followed by the See also:appearance on the surface of masses of ground-ice .

This ice has a spongy texture and frequently carries gravel with it when it rises . It is said that the bottom of See also:

Lake See also:Erie is strewn with gravel that has been floated down in this way . This " anchor-ice," as it was called by See also:Canadian trappers, frequently forms dams across narrow portions of the river where the floating masses are caught . Dr H . See also:Landor pointed out that the See also:Mackenzie and See also:Mississippi See also:rivers, which rise in the same region and flow in opposite directions, carry ground-ice from their head-See also:waters for a considerable distance down stream, and suggested that here and in See also:Siberia many forms of See also:vegetable and See also:animal life may be distributed from a centre by this agency, since the material carried by the floating ice would contain the seeds and eggs or larvae of many forms . Besides ground-ice and anchor-ice this formation is called also bottom-ice, ground-gru and lappered ice, the two last names being Scottish . In France it is called glace du fond, in See also:Germany Grundeis, and in French See also:Canada moutonne from the appearance of See also:sheep at rest, since the ice formed at the bottom grows in woolly, spongy masses upon boulders or other projections . " Frazil-ice " is a Canadian See also:term from the French for " forge-cinders." It is surface ice formed in spicules and carried down-wards in water agitated by winds or rapids . The frazil-ice may render swiftly moving water turbid with ice crystals, it may be swirled downwards and accumulated upon the ground ice, or it may be swept under the See also:sheet of surface-ice, coating the under surface of the sheet to a thickness as great as 8o ft. of loose spicular ice . See W . G . See also:Thompson, in Nature, i .

555 (1870) ; H . Landor, in See also:

Geological See also:Magazine, See also:decade II., vol. iii., p . 459 (1876); H . T . Barnes, Ice Formation with See also:special Reference to Anchor-ice and Frazil (1906) .

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