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MONTCALM DE See also:SAINT V$RAN, 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 See also:JOSEPH, See also:MARQUIS DE (1712-1759), See also:French soldier, was See also:born at Condiac near See also:Nimes on the 28th of See also:February 1712,2 and entered the See also:army in 1721, becoming See also:captain in 1727. He saw active service under See also:Berwick on the See also:Rhine in 1733, and in 1743, having become a See also:colonel of See also:infantry, he served in Bohemia under Maillebois, See also:Broglie and Belleisle. He became intimate with See also:Francois de Chevert (1695–1769), the gallant defendgr of See also:Prague, and in See also:Italy repeatedly distinguished himself, being promoted brigadier in 1747, shortly before the disastrous See also:action of Exilles, in which he was severely wounded. In 1749 he received the colonelcy of a See also:cavalry See also:regiment, and in 1756, with the See also:rank of marechal de See also:camp, he was sent to command the French troops in See also:Canada. In the third See also:year of his command, having been meanwhile promoted See also:lieutenant-See also:general, he defended See also:Quebec (q.v.) against General See also:Wolfe. The celebrated See also:siege ended with the See also:battle
2 A younger See also:brother, See also:Jean Louis See also:Pierre (or Philippe) See also:Elizabeth Montcalm de Condiac (1719-1726), was a See also:child of astonishing precocity. At the See also:age of four he read Latin; at six he understood See also:Greek and See also:Hebrew. It was for his benefit that the See also:bureau typographique—a mechanism for teaching See also:children See also:reading, See also:writing and See also:arithmetic at the same 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 that it amused them—was contrived by their See also:tutor Louis See also:Dumas (1676-1744).
of the Heights of See also:Abraham (See also:Sept. 12, 1759), in which Wolfe was killed and Montcalm mortally wounded. The French See also:commander died two days later, while the See also:place, with which his name and Wolfe's are for ever associated, was still in the hands of the See also:garrison.
also See also:Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe. The See also:chief French authorities are Pinard, Chronologie militaire, v. 616 (1762); Montcalm et le Canada See also:francais, by F. Joubleau (See also:Paris, 1874) and C. de Bonne-See also:chose (Paris, 1877); Le Moine, La Memoire de Montcalm vengee (See also:Montreal, 1889).
MONTCEAU-See also:LES-MINES, a See also:town of See also:east-central See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Saone-et-See also:Loire, 14 M. S. by W. of Le Creusot on the Paris-See also:Lyon railway. Pop. (1906), town, 9701; See also:commune, 26,305. Its importance is due chiefly to its position as the centre of the Blanzy See also:coal See also:basin, on the See also:Canal du Centre, which, is connected with the coalfield by numerous lines of railway. Its manufacturing establishments include See also:weaving and See also:spinning factories, See also:iron and See also:copper foundries, and See also:engineering See also:work-shops.
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