• insignia was one star on each epaulette, that of the maréchal de camp two stars. However the maréchal de camp was entitled a general's uniform, the brigadier...
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    (Spanish: mariscal de campo); and France, Portugal and Brazil for a brigade command (French: maréchal de camp, Portuguese: marechal de campo). The origin...
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  • refer to: Maréchal général des camps et armées du roi, former French distinction: Marshal General of the King's camps and armies Maréchal d'Empire, French...
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    during the Frond in the 1654 campaign to take Stenay. He was named maréchal de camp in 1676, lieutenant-general in 1688, and finally marshal of France...
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  • Brigadier (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    marshal (maréchal de camp) (which elsewhere is a more senior rank). During the French Revolution, the ranks of brigadier des armées and maréchal de camp were...
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    to Paris to study mathematics, and in 1720 obtained a commission as Maréchal de camp. In 1725, he entered negotiations for election as Duke of Courland...
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    François Certain de Canrobert was the cousin of Adolphe and Marcellin Marbot, who became respectively maréchal de camp (général de brigade) and lieutenant-général...
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  • rank was maréchal de camp (literally "camp marshal"). When rank insignia were introduced, brigadier des armées wore one star and a maréchal de camp wore two...
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    father as 2nd duc de Broglie on the old duke's death in 1745. He was made a Maréchal de Camp, and he subsequently served with Marshal de Saxe in the Low...
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    France, and subsequently joined the French army, rising to the rank of Maréchal de camp by 1781. In that year, Blanchelande led a French expeditionary force...
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    made a captain of Zouaves. By 1840, Juchault de Lamoricière had risen to the grade of maréchal-de-camp (major-general). Three years later he was made...
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    Lorraine by Marshal de la Force (1634), where his brilliant courage at the assault won him immediate promotion to the rank of maréchal de camp (equivalent to...
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    of maréchal de France, now named maréchal d'empire. In 1814, the ranks of général de brigade and général de division reverted to maréchal de camp and...
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    Legislative Assembly as deputy from the department of Jura, and became maréchal-de-camp; and Charles Malo François Lameth, who was a popular politician and...
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    baron of Sainte-Croix, lord of Chanlecy and Castelmore, and became maréchal de camp. He married on 21 May, 1707 Marie Anne Amé (1670–1714) and died on...
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    welcome and was made maréchal de camp. On the death of his uncle, Louis Antoine de Gontaut, in 1788, he took the title of the duke de Biron. In 1789 he was...
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    the French army. He was already a brigadier, and in 1677 he became maréchal de camp. He served throughout the campaigns of the time with increasing distinction...
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    Maréchal de camp Karl Joseph Anton Leodegar von Bachmann (3 March 1734 – 3 September 1792) was a French Royal Army officer best known for commanding the...
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    prince de Broglie (1756–1794), served in the army, attaining the rank of maréchal de camp. Maurice-Jean de Broglie (1766–1821), bishop. Louise de Broglie...
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    king's aunts Victoire and Adélaïde. In 1792, Berthier was promoted to maréchal de camp and posted to the Army of the North. He was appointed chief of staff...
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    proposed line of fortresses known as the Ceinture de fer, or iron belt (see Map). He was made Maréchal de camp in 1676, and succeeded Clerville as Commissaire...
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    at the siege of Orbetello, where he had an arm broken, he was made maréchal de camp. In the 17th century, warfare ceased during the winter months, and...
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    Jean-Jacques de la Roque d'Olès, Lieutenant Général Antoine François de Rossi, Maréchal de Camp Louis Joseph Marie Rogon de Carcaradec, and Maréchal de Camp André...
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    had incurred the enmity of the powerful Louvois. He was finally made maréchal de camp in 1687.[citation needed] In the interval between the Dutch wars and...
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    behalf of the Count of Provence, from whom he had received the rank of maréchal-de-camp. This last action of Stofflet's failed completely. He was taken prisoner...
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    become maréchal de camp, hero of the Battle of Rocoux and governor of Les Invalides. De Virot was appointed as a second lieutenant in the régiment de Montmorin...
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    fought at Minden in the Seven Years' War. He attained the rank of maréchal de camp (brigadier general) in 1788 and lieutenant general in 1792. He commanded...
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  • Porquerolles (1759), and later a Maréchal de camp (1780) and a knight of the Order of Saint Louis. He married Adélaïde de Castellane (1746-1770) in 1764...
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  • was a cavalry officer, appointed maréchal de camp (major-general) in 1748 and lieutenant-general in 1758. L'empire de l'amour (ballet héroïque, 1733; expanded...
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    colonel of the royal regiment of dragoons, and was gazetted maréchal de camp. He and Madame de Monaco belonged to the côterie of the young Duchess of Orléans...
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