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See also:BRUNE, See also:GUILLAUME See also:MARIE See also:ANNE (1763-1815) , See also:marshal of See also:France, the son of an See also:advocate, was See also:born at Brives-la-Gaillarde (See also:Correze), on the 13th of See also:March 1763. Before the Revolution he went to See also:Paris to study See also:law, and here he became a See also:political journalist, a Jacobin and a friend of See also:Danton. He was appointed
in 1793 to a See also:superior command in the See also:army See also:direct from See also:civil See also:life, and as a See also:general of See also:brigade he took See also:part in the fighting of the 13th Vendemiaire. In 1796 he fought under See also:Bonaparte in See also:Italy, and was promoted general of See also:division for See also:good service 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. In r 708 he commanded the See also:French army which occupied Switzer-See also:land, and in the following See also:year he was in command of the French troops in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland. His See also:defence of See also:Amsterdam against the Anglo-See also:Russian expedition under the See also:duke of See also:York was completely successful; the invaders were defeated, and compelled, after a miserable See also:retreat, to re-embark. He rendered further good service in See also:Vendee and in Italy, and was made a marshal by See also:Napoleon on the See also:assumption by the latter of the imperial See also:title in 1804. In 1807 Brune held a command in See also:North See also:Germany, but he was not afterwards employed during the First See also:Empire. It is said that he was accused of venality, and on that See also:account disgraced, but of this there is no See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof. He was recalled to active service during the See also:Hundred Days, and as See also:commander of the army of the See also:Var he defended the See also:south of France against the Austrians. He was murdered by royalists during the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White Terror at See also:Avignon on the 2nd of See also:August 1815.
See See also:Notice historique sur la See also:vie politique et militaire du marechal Brune (Paris, 1821), and Vermeil de Conchard, L'Assassinat du marechal Brune (Paris, 1887).
End of Article: BRUNE, GUILLAUME MARIE ANNE (1763-1815)
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