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HIPPOLYTE See also: born at See also: Besancon in 1839, and, after passing through the See also: cole Polytechnique, was appointed to the artillery as sub-See also: lieutenant in 1858, attaining the See also: rank of captain in 1866
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He served in the army of See also: Metz in the war of 1870
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Eight years later he became major, in 1887 lieutenant-colonel and in 1888 colonel
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At this See also: time he was appointed professor of artillery at the Ecole de Guerre, and in this See also: post he devoted himself to working out the See also: tactical principles of the employment of See also: field artillery under the new conditions of armament of which he foresaw the advent
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The public re:ait of his
See also: work was the See also: great See also: treatise L'Artillerie de campagne (1891—1802), which may still be regarded as the classic of the arm
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In 1894 he became general of brigade, and in 1898 general of division
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For two years after this he was the commandant of the Ecole de Guerre at the time that the See also: modern French strategical and tactical " See also: doctrine " was being See also: developed and taught
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He was, however, regarded as a See also: leader as well as a theorist, and in 1901 he was selected to command the XX
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Army Corps on the See also: German frontier, popularly called the " iron " corps
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In 1902 he became a member of the Conseil superieur de la Guerre, consisting of See also: senior generals marked out for the higher commands in war
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He retired from the active See also: list in 1904 on reaching the age limit, and devoted himself with the greatest energy to critical military literature
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In 1907 he began the publication of a monthly journal of military See also: art and See also: history, the Revue militaire generale
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The most important of his other See also: works are Enseignements de deux guerres recentes and Consequences tacliques du progres de l'armement
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