CHARLES

See also:

• EDWARD

EDWARD

See also:

• CHARLES EDWARD KILMAINE (1751-1799)

KILMAINE (1751-1799)  , French general, was born at Dublin on the 19th of October 1751 . At the age of eleven he went with his father, whose surname was Jennings, to France, where he changed his name to Kilmaine, after a village in Mayo . He entered the French army as an officer in a dragoon regiment in 1774, and afterwards served as a volunteer in the Navy (1778), during which period he was engaged in the fighting in Senegal . From 178o to 1783 he took part in the War of American Independence under Rochambeau, rejoining the army on his return to France . In 1791, as a retired captain, he took the civic oath and was recalled to active service, becoming lieutenant-colonel in 1792, and colonel, brigadier-general, and lieutenant-general in 1793 . In this last capacity he distinguished himself in the wars on the northern and eastern frontiers . But he became an object of suspicion on account of his foreign birth and his relations with England . He was suspended on the 4th of August 1793, and was not recalled to active service till 1795 . He then took part in the Italian campaigns of 1796 and 1797, and was made commandant of Lombardy . He afterwards received the command of the cavalry in Bonaparte's " army of England," of which, during the absence of Desaix, he was temporarily commander-in-chief (1798) . He died on the 15th of December 1799 See J . G .

Alger, Englishmen in the French Revolution (1889) ; Eugene Fieffe, Histoire des troupes etrangeres au service de France (1854) ; Etienne Charavay, Correspondance de Carnot, tome iii .