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See also:KILMAINE, See also:CHARLES See also:EDWARD (1751-1799) , See also:French See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Dublin on the 19th of See also:October 1751. At the See also:age of eleven he went with his See also:father, whose surname was Jennings, to See also:France, where he changed his name to Kilmaine, after a See also:village in See also:Mayo. He entered the French See also:army as an officer in a See also:dragoon See also:regiment in 1774, and afterwards served as a volunteer in the See also:Navy (1778), during which See also:period he was engaged in the fighting in See also:Senegal. From 178o to 1783 he took See also:part in the See also:War of See also:American See also:Independence under See also:Rochambeau, rejoining the army on his return to France. In 1791, as a retired See also:captain, he took the civic See also:oath and was recalled to active service, becoming See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel in 1792, and colonel, brigadier-general, and lieutenant-general in 1793. In this last capacity he distinguished himself in the See also:wars on the See also:northern and eastern frontiers. But he became an See also:object of suspicion on See also:account of his See also:foreign See also:birth and his relations with See also:England. He was suspended on the 4th of See also:August 1793, and was not recalled to active service till 1795. He then took part in the See also:Italian See also:campaigns of 1796 and 1797, and was made commandant of See also:Lombardy. He afterwards received the command of the See also:cavalry in See also:Bonaparte's " army of England," of which, during the See also:absence of Desaix, he was temporarily See also:commander-in-See also:chief (1798). He died on the 15th of See also:December 1799
See J. G. See also:Alger, Englishmen in the French Revolution (1889) ; See also:Eugene Fieffe, Histoire See also:des troupes etrangeres au service de France (1854) ; See also:Etienne Charavay, Correspondance de See also:Carnot, tome iii.
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