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See also:EXELMANS, RENE See also:JOSEPH ISIDORE, See also:COUNT (1775-1852) , See also:marshal of See also:France, was See also:born at See also:Bar-le-Duc on the 13th of See also:November 1775. He volunteered into the 3rd See also:battalion of the See also:Meuse in 1791, became a See also:lieutenant in 1797, and in 1798 was aide-de-See also:camp to See also:General Eble, and in the following See also:year to General Broussier. In his first See also:campaign in See also:Italy he greatly distinguished himself; and in See also:April 1799 he was rewarded for his services by the grade of See also:captain of dragoons. In the same year he took See also:part with See also:honour in the See also:conquest of See also:Naples and was again promoted, and in 18oi he became aide-de-camp to General See also:Murat. He accompanied Murat in the See also:Austrian, Prussian and See also:Polish See also:campaigns of 18o5, 18o6 and 1807. At the passage of the See also:Danube, and in the See also:action of Wertingen, he specially distinguished himself; he was made See also:colonel for the valour which he displayed at See also:Austerlitz, and general of See also:brigade for his conduct at See also:Eylau in 1807. In 18o8 he accompanied Murat to See also:Spain, but was there made prisoner and conveyed to See also:England. On regaining his See also:liberty in 1811 he went to Naples, where 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 See also:Joachim Murat appointed him See also:grand-See also:master of See also:horse. Exelmans, however, rejoined the See also:French See also:army on the See also:eve of the See also:Russian campaign, and on 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 of See also:Borodino won the See also:rank of general of See also:division. In the See also:retreat from See also:Moscow his steadfast courage was conspicuously manifested on several occasions. In 1813 he was made, for services in the campaign of See also:Saxony and See also:Silesia, grand-officer of the See also:Legion of Honour, and in 1814 he reaped additional See also:glory by his intrepidity and skill in the campaign of France. When the Bourbons were restored, Exelmans retained his position in the army. In See also:January 1815 he was tried on an See also:accusation of having treasonable relations with Murat, but was acquitted. See also:Napoleon on his return from See also:Elba made Exelmans a peer of France and placed him in command of the II. See also:cavalry See also:corps, which he commanded in the See also:Waterloo campaign, the See also:battle of Ligny and See also:Grouchy's See also:march on See also:Wavre. In the closing operations See also:round See also:Paris Exelmans won See also:great distinction. After the ,second Restoration he denounced, in the See also:House of Peers, the See also:execution of Marshal See also:Ney as an " abominable assassination "; thereafter he lived in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile in See also:Belgium and See also:Nassau for some years, till 1819, when he was recalled to France. In 1828 he was appointed inspector-general of cavalry; and after the See also:July revolution of 183o he received from 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 the grand See also:cross of the Legion of Honour, and was reinstated as a peer of France. At the revolution of 1848 Exelmans was one of the adherents of Louis Napoleon; and in 1851 he was, in recognition of his See also:long and brilliant military career, raised to the dignity of a marshal of France. His See also:death, which took See also:place on the loth of July 1852, was the result of a fall from his horse.
End of Article: EXELMANS, RENE JOSEPH ISIDORE, COUNT (1775-1852)
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