HIPPOLYTE See also:

• HIPPOLYTE LANGLOIS (1839— )

LANGLOIS (1839— )  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general,, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BESANCON

Besancon in 1839, and, after passing through the See also:

• COLE, SIR HENRY (1808–1882)
• COLE, THOMAS (1801–1848)
• COLE, TIMOTHY (1852– )
• COLE, VICAT (1833–1893)

cole Polytechnique, was appointed to the See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery as sub-See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant in 1858, attaining the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain in 1866 . He served in the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army of See also:

• METZ

Metz in the See also:

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

war of 1870 . Eight years later he became See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major, in 1887 lieutenant-See also:

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

colonel and in 1888 colonel . At this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of artillery at the Ecole de Guerre, and in this See also:

• POST

post he devoted himself to working out the See also:

• TACTICAL

tactical principles of the employment of See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field artillery under the new conditions of armament of which he foresaw the See also:

• ADVENT (Lat. Adventus, sc. Redemptoris, " the coming of the Saviour ")

advent . The public re:ait of his See also:

• WORK

work was the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• TREATISE

treatise L'Artillerie de campagne (1891—1802), which may still be regarded as the classic of the See also:

• ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm . In 1894 he became general of See also:

• BRIGADE (Fr. and Ger. brigade, Ital. brigata, Span. brigada; the English use of the word dates from the early 17th century)

brigade, and in 1898 general of See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division . For two years after this he was the commandant of the Ecole de Guerre at the time that the See also:

• MODERN

modern French strategical and tactical " See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine " was being See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed and taught . He was, however, regarded as a See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader as well as a theorist, and in 1901 he was selected to command the XX . Army See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

Corps on the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German frontier, popularly called the " See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron " corps . In 1902 he became a member of the Conseil superieur de la Guerre, consisting of See also:

• SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM (1790-1864)

senior generals marked out for the higher commands in war . He retired from the active See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list in 1904 on reaching the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age limit, and devoted himself with the greatest See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy to See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical military literature . In 1907 he began the publication of a monthly See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal of military See also:

• ART

art and See also:

• HISTORY

history, the Revue militaire generale .

The most important of his other See also:

• WORKS

works are Enseignements de deux guerres recentes and Consequences tacliques du progres de l'armement .