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See also:VANDAMME, DOMINIQUE RENE, See also:COUNT (1770-1830) , See also:French soldier, was See also:born at See also:Cassel, near See also:Dunkirk, on the 5th of See also:November 1770. He enlisted in the See also:army in 1786, served in See also:Martinique in 1788 and on returning to See also:France entered into the Revolutionary See also:movement, raising a See also:company of See also:light See also:infantry at his native See also:place. His extraordinary bravery and vigour in the See also:campaign of 1793 ensured his rapid promotion, and after Hondschoote he was made a See also:general of See also:brigade. He served in this See also:rank in the See also:campaigns of 1794 in the See also:Low Countries, 1795 on the See also:Rhine and 1796 in See also:Germany, and at the outbreak of the See also:war in 1799 he was promoted general of See also:division. In that See also:year and in 1800 he served under See also:Brune, See also:Moreau and See also:Macdonald in 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, Germany and See also:Switzerland. He was renowned for his tenacity and fearlessness as a fighting general as well as for his See also:frank, rough See also:manners and plundering and dissolute See also:life, but once he came under See also:Napoleon's See also:influence he was (unlike most of the Rhine Army See also:officers) his absolutely devoted servant. In 1805, for his splendid leadership at See also:Austerlitz, he was given the See also:Grand See also:Eagle of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and in 18o6–7 he commanded a small See also:corps of the Grande Armee which reduced the Silesian fortresses. In 18o8 he was made count of Unebourg. In 1809 he served in the See also:Eckmuhl campaign with distinction, but in 1812, while commanding the Westphalian contingent he quarrelled with See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Jerome See also:Bonaparte and returned to France. He returned to the army in 1813. But his corps, sent against the See also:line of See also:retreat of the See also:Allies at the 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 of the See also:battle of See also:Dresden, was entangled in the mountains, surrounded and after a fierce resistance compelled to surrender at See also:Kulm (see See also:NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGNS). In his captivity he appears to have been treated with especial harshness, and when the end of the war released him he was forbidden to enter See also:Paris, and sent to Cassel 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. He was thus See also:free of all obligations towards the Bourbons, and when Napoleon returned, joined him without hesitation. The See also:emperor made him a peer of France and placed him at the See also:head of the III. corps in the Army of the See also:North (see See also:WATERLOO CAMPAIGN). After Waterloo, under See also:Grouchy's command, he brought back his corps in See also:good See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to Paris and thence to the See also:Loire. The Restoration first imprisoned and then exiled him, and unlike most of his comrades he was never re-employed as a general. He died at Cassel on the 15th of See also:July 1830.
See Du Casse, Le General Vandamme et sa correspondance.
End of Article: VANDAMME, DOMINIQUE RENE, COUNT (1770-1830)
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