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BERNARD, SIMON (17791839)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 799 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BERNARD, SIMON (17791839) , French general of engineers, was born at Dole, educated at the I cole Polytechniquc, and entered the army in the corps of engineers._ He rose rapidly, and served (1805-1812) as aide-de-camp to
Napoleon
 . He was wounded in the
retreat
  after
Leipzig
 . and distinguished himself the same year (1813) in the gallant defence of Torgau against the allies. After the emperor's fall he emigrated to the United States, where, being made a brigadier-general of engineers, he executed a number of extensive military works for the government, notably at Fortress Monroe, Va., and around New
York
 , and did a large amount of the civil engineering connected with the Chesapeake and
Ohio
  Canal and the
Delaware
  Breakwater. He returned to France after the revolution of 1830, was made a lieutenant-general by Louis Philippe, and in 1836 served as minister of war.


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