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See also:FOY, MAXIMILIEN SEBASTIEN (1775-1825) , See also:French See also:general
and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Ham in See also:Picardy on the 3rd
of See also:February 1775. He was the son of an old soldier who had
fought at See also:Fontenoy and had become See also:post-See also:master of the See also:town
in which he lived. His See also:father died in 178o, and his See also:early instruc-
occur in See also:Shetland or in some of the eastern counties of See also:England. I tion was given by his See also:mother, a woman of See also:English origin and of
See also:superior ability. He continued his See also:education at the See also:college of See also:Soissons, and thence passed at the See also:age of fifteen to the See also:artillery school of La Fere. After eighteen months' successful study he entered the See also:army, served his first See also:campaign in See also:Flanders (1791—92) , and was See also:present at the See also:battle of Jemmapes. He soon attained the See also:rank of See also:captain, and served successively under Dampierre, See also:Jourdan, See also:Pichegru and Houchard. In 1794, in consequence of having spoken freely against the violence of the extreme party st See also:Paris, he was imprisoned by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:commissioner of the See also:Convention, See also:Joseph Lebon, at Cambray, but regained his See also:liberty soon after the fall of See also:Robespierre. He served under See also:Moreau in the See also:campaigns of 1796 and 1797, distinguishing himself in many engagements. The leisure which the treaty of Campo Formio gave him he devoted to the study of public See also:law and See also:modern See also:history, attending the lectures of Christoph Wilhelm von See also:Koch (1737-1813), the famous See also:professor of public law at See also:Strassburg. He was recommended by Desaix to the See also:notice of General See also:Bonaparte, but declined to serve on the See also:staff of the See also:Egyptian expedition. In the campaign of See also:Switzerland (1798) he distinguished himself afresh, though he served only with the greatest reluctance against a See also:people which possessed republican institutions. In See also:Massena's brilliant campaign of 1799 Foy won the rank of chef de See also:brigade. In the following See also:year he served under See also:Moncey in the See also:Marengo campaign and afterwards in See also:Tirol.
Foy's republican principles caused him to oppose the See also:gradual rise of See also:Napoleon to the supreme See also:power and at the 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 of Moreau's trial he escaped See also:arrest only by joining the army 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. Foy voted against the See also:establishment of the See also:empire, but the only See also:penalty for his See also:independence was a See also:long delay before attaining the rank of general. In x8o6 he married a daughter of General Baraguay d'Hilliers. In the following year he was sent to See also:Constantinople, and there took See also:part in the See also:defence of the See also:Dardanelles against the English See also:fleet. He was next sent to See also:Portugal, and thenceforward he served in the See also:Peninsular See also:War from first to last. Under See also:Junot he won at last his rank of general of brigade, under See also:Soult he held a command in the pursuit of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Moore's army, and under Massena he fought in the third invasion of Portugal (181o). Massena reposed the greatest confidence in Foy, and employed him after Busaco in a See also:mission to the See also:emperor. Napoleon now made Foy's acquaintance for the first time, and was so far impressed with his merits as to make him a general of See also:division at once. The part played by General Foy at the battle of See also:Salamanca won him new laurels, but above all he distinguished himself when the disaster of See also:Vittoria had broken the spirit of the army. Foy See also:rose to the occasion; his resistance in the See also:Pyrenees was steady and successful, and only a See also:wound (at first thought mortal) which he received at See also:Orthez prevented him from keeping 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 to the last. At the first restoration of the Bourbons he received the See also:grand See also:cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour and a command, and on the return of Napoleon from See also:Elba he declined to join him until 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 had fled from the See also:country. He held a divisional command in the See also:Waterloo campaign, and at Waterloo was again severely wounded at the See also:head of his division (see WATERLOO CAMPAIGN). After the second restoration he returned to See also:civil See also:life, devoting his energies for a time to his projected history of the Peninsular War, and in 1819 was elected to the chamber of deputies. For this position his experience and his studies had especially fitted him, and by his first speech he gained a commanding See also:place in the chamber, which he never lost, his clear, manly eloquence being always employed on the See also:side of the liberal principles of 1789. In 1823 he made a powerful protest against French intervention in See also:Spain, and after the See also:dissolution of 1824 he was re-elected for three constituencies. He died at Paris on the 28th of See also:November 1825, and his funeral was attended, it is said, by xoo,000 persons. His early See also:death was regarded by all as a See also:national calamity. His See also:family was provided for by a general subscription.
The Histoire de la guerre de la See also:Peninsula sous Napoleon was published from his notes in 1827, and a collection of his speeches (with memoir by See also:Tissot) appeared in 1826 soon after his death. See Cuisin, See also:Vie militaire, politique, &c., du general Foy; Vidal, Vie militaire et politique du general Foy.
End of Article: FOY, MAXIMILIEN SEBASTIEN (1775-1825)
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