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See also:GRIMOARD, PHILIPPE See also:HENRI, See also:COMTE DE (1753-1815) , See also:French soldier and military writer, 'entered the royal See also:army at
the See also:age of sixteen, and in' 1775 published his Essai theorique et practique sur See also:les batailles. Shortly afterwards 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 XVI.
placed him in his own military , See also:cabinet and employed him especially in connexion with schemes of army reform. ' By the' See also:year of the Revolution he had become one of Louis's most valued counsellors, in See also:political as well as military matters, and was marked out, though only a See also:colonel, as the next See also:Minister of See also:War. " In '791 Grimoard was entrusted with the preparation of the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of See also:defence for See also:France, which proved two years
later of See also:great assistance to the See also:Committee of Public Safety. The events of 1792 put an end to his military career; and the
See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent in See also:writing military books.
The following See also:works by him, besides his first See also:essay, have retained some, importance : Histoire See also:des dernikres campagnes de See also:Turenne (See also:Paris, 1780), Lettres et memoires de Turenne (Paris, 178o), Troupes legeres et leur emploi (Paris, 1782), See also:Con 4tes de Gustave-Adolphe (See also:Stockholm and Neufchatel, ' 1782—17917) ; Memoires de Gustave Adolphe (Paris, 1790), See also:Correspondence of See also:Marshal See also:Richelieu (Paris, 1789), St Germain (1789), and See also:Bemis (1790), See also:Vie et regne,de See also:Frederic le See also:Grand (See also:London, 1788), Lettres et memoires du marechal de See also:Saxe (Paris, 1794), L'Expidition de Minorque en T756 (Paris, 1798), Recherches sur in force de l'armee francaise depuis Henri IV jusqu'en 1805 (Paris, ,8o6), Memoires du marechal de Tesse (Paris, 18o6), Lettres de See also:Bolingbroke (Paris, 18o8), Traite sur le service d'etat-See also:major (Paris, 1809), and (with See also:Servan) Tableau historique de in guerre de in Revolution 1792—1794 (Paris, ,8o8).
End of Article: GRIMOARD, PHILIPPE HENRI, COMTE DE (1753-1815)
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