See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

DUKE OF See also:

• CONEGLIANO

CONEGLIANO BON ADRIEN JEANNOT DE See also:

• DUKE OF CONEGLIANO BON ADRIEN JEANNOT DE MONCEY (1754-1842)

MONCEY (1754-1842)  , See also:

• MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

marshal of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, was the son of a lawyer of See also:

• BESANCON

Besancon, where he was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 31st of See also:

• JULY

July 1754 . In his boyhood he twice enlisted in the See also:

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

French See also:

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

army, but his See also:

• FATHER

father procured his See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge on both occasions . His See also:

• DESIRE

desire was at last gratified in 1778, when he received a See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission . He was a See also:

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

captain when, in 1791, he embraced the principles of the French Revolution . See also:

• MONCEY, BON ADRIEN JEANNOT DE, DUKE OF CONEGLIANO (1754-1842)

Moncey won See also:

• GREAT

great distinction in the See also:

• CAMPAIGNS

campaigns of 1793 and 1794 on the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish frontier (see FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY See also:

• WARS

WARS), rising from the command of a See also:

• BATTALION

battalion to the command in See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of the Army of the Western See also:

• PYRENEES [Span. Pirineos, Fr. Pyrenees]

Pyrenees in a few months, and his successful operations were largely instrumental in compelling the Spanish See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government to make See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace . After this he was employed in the highest commands until 1799, when the government, suspecting him of Royalist views, dismissed him . But the coup d'etat of 18 . See also:

• BRUMAIRE

Brumaire brought him back to 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, and in See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon's See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign of 1800 he led a 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 from See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland into See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, surmounting all the difficulties of bringing horses and guns over the then formidable pass of St Gothard . In ,8o, Napoleon made him inspector-See also:

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

general of See also:

• GENDARMERIE

gendarmerie, and on the See also:

• ASSUMPTION, FEAST OF

assumption of the imperial See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title created him a marshal of France . In 18o5 Moncey received the See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• CORDON (a French derivative of corde, cord)

cordon of the See also:

• LEGION (Lat. legio)

legion of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour, and in 18o8 the title of See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• CONEGLIANO

Conegliano . In the latter See also:

• YEAR

year, the first of the See also:

• PENINSULAR

Peninsular See also:

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

War, Moncey was sent to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain in command of an army corps . He signalized himself by his victorious advance on See also:

• VALENCIA
• VALENCIA, or VALENTIA

Valencia, the effect of which was, however, destroyed by the disaster to See also:

• DUPONT, PIERRE (1821-1870)

Dupont at Baylen, and took a leading See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor's campaign on the See also:

• EBRO (anc. Iberus or Hiberus)

Ebro and in the second See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of See also:

• SARAGOSSA (Zaragoza)
• SARAGOSSA, COUNCILS OF (Concilia Caesarauguslana)

Saragossa in 1809 .

He refused. to serve in the invasion of See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia, and therefore had no See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the campaign of the grande armee in 1812 and 1813 . When, however, France was invaded (1814) Marshal Moncey reappeared in the 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 and fought the last See also:

• BATTLE

battle for See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the heights of Montmartre and at the barrier of See also:

• CLICHY

Clichy . He remained neutral during the See also:

• HUNDRED

Hundred Days, feeling himself See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound to See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XVIII. by his engagements as a peer of France, but after See also:

• WATERLOO

Waterloo he was punished for refusing to take part in the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court-See also:

• MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS)

martial on See also:

• NEY, MICHEL

Ney by imprisonment and the loss of his marshalate . He was reinstated in 1816, and re-entered the chamber of peers three years later . His last active service was as See also:

• COMMANDER

commander of an army corps in the See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short war with Spain, 1823 . In 1833 he became See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of the Invalides . He died on the loth of See also:

• APRIL

April 1842 .