A Wisdom Archive on Jean Victor Marie Moreau

The literature on Moreau is copious, the best book being C Jochmus, General Moreau--Abriss einer Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Feldzuge (Berlin, 1814). A more ordinary work is A de Beauchamp, Vie politique, miliitaire, et privée du Général Moreau, translated by Philippart (London, 1814); and there is a curious tract on his death in Russian, translated into English under the title, Some Details Concerning General Moreau and his Last Moments, by Paul Svinin (London, ...

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French military disasters in 1798 and 1799 had shaken the Directory, and eventually shattered it. The start of the political downfall of the Directory is usually dated from 18 June 1799, (30 Prairial Year VIII by the French Republican calendar) when Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès with the help of Paul Barras successfully ridded himself of the other then-sitting directors. An irregularity having emerged in the election of Jean Baptiste Treilhard, who retired in favor of Gohier. Within days, Philippe-Antoine Merlin (Merlin de Douai) and Louis-Marie d ...

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1763 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1763 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). 1763 - Events. February 10 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends th ... Including:

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Bonaparte had now to rid himself of Sieyès and of those republicans who had no desire to hand over the republic to one man, particularly of Moreau and Masséna, his military rivals. The victory of Marengo (14 June 1800) momentarily in the balance, but secured by Desaix and Kellermann, offered a further opportunity to his jealous ambition by increasing his popularity. The royalist plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise on 24 December 1800 allowed him to make a clean sweep of the democratic republicans, who despite their innocence were deported t ...

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Six Marshals named under Louis XVIII, from 1815 - 1824 François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny, Duke of Coigny (1137 - 1821), Marshal of France in 1816 Henry Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duke of Feltre (1765 - 1818), Marshal of France in 1816 Pierre Riel de Beurnonville, Marquis of Beurnonville (1752 - 1821), Marshal of France in 1816 Charles Joseph Hyacinthe du Houx de Viomesnil, Marquis of Viomesnil (1734 - 1827), Marshal of France in 1816 Jacques Alexandre Law, Marquis of Lauriston (176 ...

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