See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

BARON AUGUSTE See also:

• BARON AUGUSTE LAMBERMONT (1819-1905)

LAMBERMONT (1819-1905)  , Belgian statesman, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• DION

Dion-le-Val in See also:

• BRABANT
• BRABANT, NORTH

Brabant on the 25th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1819 . He came of a See also:

• FAMILY

family of small See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

farmer proprietors, who had held See also:

• LAND

land during three centuries . He was intended for the priesthood and entered the See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary of Floreffe, but his energies claimed a more active See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere . He See also:

• LEFT

left the monastery for See also:

• LOUVAIN (Flem. Leuven)

Louvain University . Here he studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, and also prepared himself for the military See also:

• EXAMINATIONS

examinations . At that juncture the first Carlist See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke out, and See also:

• LAMBERMONT, AUGUSTE, BARON (1819-1905)

Lambermont hastened to the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of See also:

• ACTION

action . His services were accepted (See also:

• APRIL

April 1838) and he was entrusted with the command of two small See also:

• CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon . He also acted as A.D.C. to See also:

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

Colonel See also:

• DURANDO, GIACOMO (1807-1894)

Durando . He greatly distinguished himself, and for his intrepidity on one occasion he was decorated with the See also:

• CROSS

Cross of the highest military 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 of St See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

Ferdinand . Returning to See also:

• BELGIUM
• BELGIUM (Fr. Belgique; Flem. Belgic)

Belgium he entered the See also:

• MINISTRY

Ministry for See also:

• FOREIGN

Foreign Affairs in 1842 . He served in this See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department sixty-three years . He was closely associated with several of the most important questions in Belgian See also:

• HISTORY

history during the last See also:

• HALF

half of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century—notably the freeing of the See also:

• SCHELDT (Fr. Escaut, Flem. Schelde)

Scheldt .

He was one of the very first Belgians to see the importance of developing the See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade of their See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and at his own See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request he was attached to the commercial See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the foreign See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office . The tolls imposed by the Dutch on See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation on the Scheldt strangled Belgian trade, for See also:

• ANTWERP
• ANTWERP (Fr. Anvers)

Antwerp was the only See also:

• PORT

port of the country . The Dutch had the right to make this See also:

• LEVY (Fr. levee, from lever, Lat. levare, to lift, raise)
• LEVY, AMY (1861–1889)
• LEVY, AUGUSTE MICHEL (1844– )

levy under See also:

• TREATIES

treaties going back to the treaty of See also:

• MUNSTER
• MUNSTER, SEBASTIAN (1489-1552)

Munster in 1648, and they clung to it still more tenaciously after Belgium separated herself in 183o-1831 from the See also:

• UNITED

united See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of the See also:

• NETHERLANDS

Netherlands—the See also:

• LONDON

London See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference in 1839 fixing the See also:

• TOLL (etymologically, that which is numbered or counted; from a common Teutonic form, cf. " tale," " tell ")
• TOLL, JOHAN KRISTOFFER, COUNT (1743-1817)

toll payable to See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland at 1.5o florins (3s.) per ton . From 1856 to 1863 Lambermont devoted most of his energies to the removal of this impediment . In 1856 he See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew up a See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan of action, and he prosecuted it with untiring perseverance until he saw it embodied in an See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

international See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

convention seven years later . Twenty-one See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers and states attended a conference held on the question at See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels in 1863, and on the 15th of See also:

• JULY

July the treaty freeing the Scheldt was signed . For this achievement Lambermont was made a See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

baron . Among other important conferences in which Lambermont took a leading See also:

• PART

part were those of Brussels (1874) on the usages of war, See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin (1884-1885) on See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa and the See also:

• CONGO

Congo region, and Brussels (189o) on Central See also:

• AFRICAN

African Affairs and the Slave Trade . He was See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint reporter with Baron de Courcel of the Berlin conference in 1884-1885, and on several occasions he was chosen as arbitrator by one or other of the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• EUROPEAN

European powers . But his great achievement was the freeing of the Scheldt, and in token of its gratitude the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Antwerp erected a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument to his memory . He died on the 7th of March 1905 .