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See also:BROGLIE, DE , the name of a See also:noble See also:French See also:family which, originally Piedmontese, emigrated to See also:France in the See also:year 1643. The See also:head of the family, See also:FRANCOIS See also:MARIE (1611-1656), then took the See also:title of See also:comte de Broglie. He had already distinguished
BROGLIE
himself as a soldier, and died, as a See also:lieutenant-See also:general, at the See also:siege of Valenza on the 2nd of See also:July 1656. His son, See also:VICTOR See also:MAURICE, COMTE DE BROGLIE (1647-1727), served under See also:Conde, See also:Turenne and other See also:great commanders of the See also:age of 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 XIV., becoming marechal de See also:camp in 1676, lieutenant-general in 1688, and finally See also:marshal of France in 1724.
The eldest son of Victor Marie, FRANCOIS MARIE, afterwards DUC DE BROGLIE (1671-1745), entered the See also:army at an See also:early age, and had a varied career of active service before he was made, at the age of twenty-three, lieutenant-See also:colonel of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:regiment of See also:cavalry. He served continuously in the See also:War of the See also:Spanish See also:Succession and was See also:present at See also:Malplaquet. He was made lieutenant-general in 1710, and served with See also:Villars in the last. See also:campaign of the war and at the See also:battle of See also:Denain. During the See also:peace he continued in military employment, and in 1719 he was made director-general of cavalry and dragoons. He was also employed in See also:diplomatic See also:missions, and was See also:ambassador in See also:England in 1724. The war in See also:Italy called him into 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 again in 1733, and in the following year he was made marshal of France. In the campaign of 1734 he was one of the See also:chief commanders on the French See also:side, and he fought the battles of See also:Parma a1}d See also:Guastalla. A famous See also:episode was his narrow See also:personal See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape when his quarters on t),l.e Secchia were raided by the enemy on the See also:night of the 14th of See also:September 1734. In 1735 he directed a war of positions with See also:credit, but he was soon replaced by Marshal de See also:Noailles. He was See also:governor-general of See also:Alsace when See also:Frederick the Great paid a See also:secret visit to See also:Strassburg (1740). In 1742 de Broglie was appointed to command the French army in See also:Germany, but such See also:powers as he had possessed were failing him, and he had always been the " See also:man of small means," safe and cautious, but lacking in See also:elasticity and daring. The only success obtained was in the See also:action of Sahay (25th May 1742), for which he was made a See also:duke. He returned to France in 1743, and died two years later.
His son, VICTOR FRANCOIS, Duc DE BROGLIE (1718-1804), served with his See also:father at Parma and Guastalla, and in 1934 obtained a colonelcy. In the See also:German War he took See also:part in the storming of See also:Prague in 1742, and was made a brigadier. In 1744 and 1745 he saw further service on the See also:Rhine, and in 1756 he was made marechal de camp. He subsequently served with Marshal See also:Saxe in the See also:low countries, and was present at Roucoux, Val and See also:Maastricht. At the end of the war he was made a lieutenant-general. During the Seven Years' War he served successively under d'See also:Estrees, See also:Soubise and Contades, being present at all the battles from Hastenbeck onwards. His victory over See also:Prince See also:Ferdinand at See also:Bergen (1759) won him the See also:rank of marshal of France from his own See also:sovereign and that of prince of the See also:empire from the See also:emperor See also:Francis I. In 176o he won an action at Corbach, but was defeated at Vellinghausen in 1761. After the war he See also:fell into disgrace and was not recalled to active employment until 1778, when he was given command of the troops designed to operate against England. He played a prominent part in the Revolution, which he opposed with determination. After his See also:emigration, de Broglie commanded the " army of the princes " for a See also:short 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 (1792). He died at See also:Munster in 1804.
Another son of the first duke, See also:CHARLES FRANCOIS, COMTE DE BROGLIE (1719-1781), served for some years in the army, and afterwards became one of the foremost diplomatists in the service of Louis XV. He is chiefly remembered in connexion with the Secret du Roi, the private, as distinct from the See also:official, diplomatic service of Louis, of which he was the ablest and most important member.
The son of Victor Francois, VICTOR See also:CLAUDE, PRINCE DE BROGLIE (1757-1794), served in the army, attaining the rank of marechal de camp. He adopted revolutionary opinions, served with See also:Lafayette and See also:Rochambeau in See also:America, was a member of the Jacobin See also:Club, and sat in the Constituent See also:Assembly, constantly voting on the Liberal side. He served as chief of the See also:staff to the Republican army on the Rhine; but in the Terror he was denounced, arrested and executed at See also:Paris on the 27th of See also:June 1794. His dying admonition to his little son was to remain
faithful to the principles of the Revolution, however unjust and ungrateful.
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