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See also: BERNARD, See also:SIMON (1779—1839) , See also:French See also:general of See also:engineers, was See also:born at See also:Dole, educated at the I See also:cole Polytechniquc, and entered the See also:army in the See also:corps of engineers._ He See also:rose rapidly, and served (1805-1812) as aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Napoleon. He was wounded in the See also:retreat after See also:Leipzig. and distinguished himself the same See also:year (1813) in the gallant See also:defence of See also:Torgau against the See also:allies. After the See also:emperor's fall he emigrated to the See also:United States, where, being made a brigadier-general of engineers, he executed a number of extensive military See also:works for the See also:government, notably at Fortress See also:Monroe, Va., and around New See also:York, and did a large amount of the See also:civil See also:engineering connected with the Chesapeake and See also:Ohio See also:Canal and the See also:Delaware See also:Breakwater. He returned to See also:France after the revolution of 1830, was made a See also:lieutenant-general by 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 Philippe, and in 1836 served as See also:minister of See also:war.
End of Article: BERNARD, SIMON (1779—1839)
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