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See also:KEARNY, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
PHILIP (1815—1862) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in New See also:York on the 2nd of See also:June 1815, and was originally in-tended for the legal profession. He graduated at See also:Columbia University (1833), but his See also:bent was decidedly towards soldiering, and in 1837 he obtained a See also:commission in the See also:cavalry See also:regiment of which his See also:uncle, (See also:General) See also:Stephen See also:Watts Kearny (1794—1848), was See also:colonel and See also:Lieutenant See also:Jefferson See also:Davis See also:adjutant. Two years later he was sent to See also:France to study the methods of cavalry training in See also:vogue there. Before his return to the See also:United States in 1840 he had served, on leave, in See also:Algeria. He had inherited a large See also:fortune, but he remained in the service, and his wide experience of cavalry See also:work caused him to be employed on the headquarters See also:staff of the See also:army. After six more years' service Kearny See also:left the army, but almost immediately afterwards he rejoined, bringing with him a See also:company of cavalry, which he had raised and equipped chiefly at his own expense, to take See also:part in the Mexican See also:war. In See also:December 1846 he was promoted See also:captain. In leading a brilliant cavalry See also:charge at Churubusco he lost his left See also:arm, but he remained at the front, and won the See also:brevet of See also:major for his gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco. In 1851 he again resigned, to travel See also:round the See also:world. He saw further active service with his old comrades of the See also:French cavalry in the See also:Italian war of 1859, and received the See also:cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour for his conduct at See also:Solferino.
End of Article: KEARNY, PHILIP (1815—1862)
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