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See also:OUDINOT, See also:CHARLES See also:NICOLAS (1767-1847) , See also:duke of Reggio, See also:marshal of See also:France, came of a See also:bourgeois See also:family in See also:Lorraine, and was See also:born at See also:Bar-le-duc on the 25th of See also:April 1767. He had a See also:passion for a military career, and served in the See also:regiment of Medoc from 1784 to 1787, when, having no See also:hope of promotion on See also:account of his non-See also:noble See also:birth, he retired with the See also:rank of sergeant. The Revolution changed his fortunes, and in 1792, on the outbreak of See also:war, he was elected See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel of the 3rd See also:battalion of the See also:volunteers of the See also:Meuse. His gallant See also:defence of the little fort of See also:Bitsch in the See also:Vosges in 1792 See also:drew See also:attention to him; he was transferred to the See also:regular See also:army in See also:November 1793, and after serving in numerous actions on the Belgian frontier he was promoted See also:general of See also:brigade in See also:June 1794 for his conduct at the See also:battle of See also:Kaiserslautern. He continued to serve with the greatest distinction on the See also:German frontier under See also:Hoche, See also:Pichegru and See also:Moreau, and was repeatedly wounded and once (in 1795) made prisoner. He was See also:Massena's right See also:hand all through the See also:great Swiss See also:campaign of 1799—first as a general of See also:division, to which grade he was promoted in April, and then as See also:chief of the See also:staff—and won extraordinary distinction at the battle of See also:Zurich. He was See also:present under Massena at the defence of See also:Genoa, and so distinguished himself at the combat of Monzambano that See also:Napoleon presented him with a See also:sword of See also:honour. He was made inspector-general of See also:infantry, and, on the See also:establishment of the See also:empire, given the See also:Grand See also:Cross of the See also:Legion of Honour, but was not included in the first creation of marshals. He was 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 elected a member of the chamber of deputies, but he had little time to devote to politics. He took a conspicuous See also:part in the war of 18o5 in command of the famous division
See also:OUIDA
of the " grenadiers Oudinot," formed of picked troops and organized by him, with which he seized the See also:Vienna See also:bridges, received a See also:wound at Hollabrunn, and delivered the decisive See also:blow at See also:Austerlitz. In 18o6 he won the battle of Ostrolenka, and fought with See also:resolution and success at See also:Friedland. In 18o8 he was made See also:governor of See also:Erfurt and See also:count of the Empire, and in 1809, after displaying brilliant courage at See also:Wagram, he was promoted to the rank of marshal. He was made duke of Reggio, and received a large See also:money See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant in April 18ro. Oudinot administered the See also:government of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland from 1810 to 1812, and commanded the II. See also:corps of the Grande Armee in the See also:Russian campaign. He was present at See also:Lutzen and See also:Bautzen, and when holding the See also:independent command of the corps directed to take See also:Berlin was defeated at See also:Gross Beeren (see See also:NAPOLEONIC See also:CAMPAIGNS). He was then superseded by See also:Ney, but the See also:mischief was too great to be repaired, and Ney was defeated at See also:Dennewitz. Oudinot was not disgraced, however, holding important commands at See also:Leipzig and in the campaign of 1814. On the See also:abdication of Napoleon he rallied to the new government, and was made a peer by 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 XVIII., and, unlike many of his old comrades, he did not See also:desert to his old See also:master in 1815. His last active service was in the See also:French invasion of See also:Spain in 1823, in which he commanded a corps and was for a time governor of See also:Madrid. He died as governor of the Invalides on the 13th of See also:September 1847. Oudinot was not, and made no pretence of being, a great See also:commander, but he was a great general of division. He was the beau-ideal of an infantry general, energetic, thoroughly conversant with detail, and in battle as resolute and skilful as any of the marshals of Napoleon.
Oudinot's eldest son, CHARLES NICOLAS See also:VICTOR, 2nd duke of Reggio (1791-1863), lieutenant-general, served through the later campaigns of Napoleon from 1809 to 1814, being in the latter See also:year promoted See also:major for gallant conduct. Unlike his See also:father he was a cavalryman, and as such held command of the See also:cavalry school at See also:Saumur (1822-1830), and the inspectorgeneralcy of cavalry (1836-1848). He is chiefly known as the commander of the French expedition which besieged and took See also:Rome in 184o and re-established the temporal See also:power of the See also:pope. After the coup d'etat of the 2nd of See also:December 1851, in resistance to which he took a prominent part, he retired from military and See also:political See also:life, dying at See also:Paris on the 7th of June 1863.
The 2nd duke wrote Aperqu historique sur la diguile de marechal de France (1833) ; Considerations sur See also:les ordres militaires de See also:Saint Louis, &c. (1833); L'Emploi See also:des troupes aux grands travaux d'utilite publique (1839) ; De la Cavalerie et du casernement des troupes a cheval (184o) ; Des Remontes de l'armee (184o) ; and a brief account of his See also:Italian operations of 1849.
End of Article: OUDINOT, CHARLES NICOLAS (1767-1847)
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