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See also:LANGLOIS, HIPPOLYTE (1839— ) , See also:French See also:general,, was See also:born at See also:Besancon in 1839, and, after passing through the See also:cole Polytechnique, was appointed to the See also:artillery as sub-See also:lieutenant in 1858, attaining the See also:rank of See also:captain in 1866. He served in the See also:army of See also:Metz in the See also:war of 1870. Eight years later he became See also:major, in 1887 lieutenant-See also:colonel and in 1888 colonel. At this 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 he was appointed See also:professor of artillery at the Ecole de Guerre, and in this See also:post he devoted himself to working out the See also:tactical principles of the employment of 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 artillery under the new conditions of armament of which he foresaw the See also:advent. The public re:ait of his See also:work was the See also:great See also:treatise L'Artillerie de campagne (1891—1802), which may still be regarded as the classic of the See also:arm. In 1894 he became general of See also:brigade, and in 1898 general of See also:division. For two years after this he was the commandant of the Ecole de Guerre at the time that the See also:modern French strategical and tactical " See also:doctrine " was being See also:developed and taught. He was, however, regarded as a See also:leader as well as a theorist, and in 1901 he was selected to command the XX. Army See also:Corps on the See also:German frontier, popularly called the " See also:iron " corps. In 1902 he became a member of the Conseil superieur de la Guerre, consisting of See also:senior generals marked out for the higher commands in war. He retired from the active See also:list in 1904 on reaching the See also:age limit, and devoted himself with the greatest See also:energy to See also:critical military literature. In 1907 he began the publication of a monthly See also:journal of military See also:art and See also:history, the Revue militaire generale. The most important of his other See also:works are Enseignements de deux guerres recentes and Consequences tacliques du progres de l'armement.
End of Article: LANGLOIS, HIPPOLYTE (1839— )
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