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SEGUR, PHILIPPE See also:
HENRI
HENRI, See also:
MARQUIS
MARQUIS DE (1724-18o1) , See also:

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

marshal of See also:

France, son of Henri See also:

FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois, See also:

COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

comte de Segur, and his wife Angelique de Froissy, was appointed to the command of an See also:

INFANTRY

infantry See also:

REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment at eighteen, and served under his See also:

FATHER

father in See also:

Italy and Bohemia. He was wounded at Roucoux in See also:

FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

Flanders in See also:

OCTOBER

October 1946, and lost an See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm at Lauffeld in 1747. In 1748 he succeeded his father as See also:

LIEUTENANT

lieutenant-See also:

general of See also:

CHAMPAGNE

Champagne and See also:

BRIE (Briegus saltus, from Celtic briek, clay)

Brie; he also received in 1753 the governorship of the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of See also:

FOIX

Foix. During the Seven Years' See also:

War he fought at Hastenbeck (17.57), See also:

CREFELD, or KREFELD

Crefeld (1758) and See also:

MINDEN

Minden (1759). In 176o he was taken prisoner at Kloster-campen. The ability which he showed in the See also:

government of Franche-Comte in 1775 led in 1780 to his See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment as See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of war under See also:

NECKER, JACQUES (1732—1804)

Necker. He created in 1783 the permanent general See also:

STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff, and made admirable regulations with regard to See also:

barracks and military hospitals; and though he was officially responsible for the reactionary See also:

DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)

decree requiring four quarterings of See also:

NOBILITY

nobility as a See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition for the appointment of See also:

OFFICERS

officers, the See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme is said not to have originated with him and to have been adopted under protest. In 1783 he became a marshal of France. He resigned from the See also:

MINISTRY

ministry of war in 1787. During the Terror he was imprisoned in La Force, and after his See also:

RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release was reduced to considerable straits until in 1800 he received a See also:

PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension from See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon. He died in See also:

Paris on the 3rd of October of the next See also:

YEAR

year. See A. de Segur, Le Marichal de Segur, 1724–1801 (Paris, 1895).

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