Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

GRIBEAUVAL, JEAN BAPTISTE DE (1715-1789)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

GRIBEAUVAL, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE DE (1715-1789) , See also:French See also:artillery See also:general, was the son of a See also:magistrate of See also:Amiens and was See also:born there on the 15th of See also:September 1715. He entered the French royal artillery in 1732 as a volunteer, and became an officer in 1735. For nearly twenty years regimental See also:duty and scientific See also:work occupied him, and in 1752 he became See also:captain of a See also:company of miners. A few years later he was employed in a military See also:mission in See also:Prussia. In 1757, being then a See also:lieutenant, See also:colonel, he was See also:lent to the See also:Austrian See also:army on the outbreak of the Seven Years' See also:War, and served as a general officer of artillery. The See also:siege of See also:Glatz and the See also:defence of See also:Schweidnitz were his See also:principal exploits. The empress Maria See also:Theresa rewarded him for his work with the See also:rank of lieutenant See also:field-See also:marshal and the See also:cross of the Maria Theresa See also:order. On his return to See also:France he was made marechal de See also:camp, in 1764 inspector of artillery, and in 1765 lieutenant-general and See also:commander of the order of St See also:Louis. For some years after this he was in disfavour at See also:court, and he became first inspector of artillery only in 1776, in which See also:year also he received the See also:grand cross of the St Louis order. He was now able to carry out the reforms in the artillery See also:arm which are his See also:chief See also:title to fame. See ARTILLERY; and for full details Gribeauval's own Table See also:des constructions des principaux attirails de l' artillerie . . . de M. de Gribeauval, and the See also:regiment for the French artillery issued in 1976.

He died in 1789. See Puys6gur in See also:

Journal de See also:Paris, supplement of the 8th of See also:July 1789 ; See also:Chevalier de Passac, Precis sur M. de Gribeauval (Paris, 1816) ; Veyrines, Gribeauval (Paris, 1889), and Henn6bert, Gribeauval, lieutenant-general des armees du See also:roy (Paris, 1896).

End of Article: GRIBEAUVAL, JEAN BAPTISTE DE (1715-1789)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
GREYWACKE, or GRAUWACKE (a German word signifying a... 		[next]
GRIBOYEDOV, ALEXANDER SERGUEEVICH (1795-1829)

Site © 2006 - Net Industries