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GERARD, ETIENNE MAURICE, COUNT (17731852)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 764 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GERARD, ETIENNE MAURICE, COUNT (17731852) , French general, was born at Damvilliers (Meuse), on the 4th of April 1773. He joined a battalion of volunteers in 1791, and served in the campaigns of 17921793 under Generals Dumouriez and Jourdan. In 1795 he accompanied Bernadotte as aide-de-camp. In 1799 he was promoted chef d'escadron, and in 1800 colonel. He distinguished himself at the battles of Austerlitz and Jena, and was made general of brigade in November 18o6, and for his conduct in the battle of Wagram he was created a baron. In the Spanish campaign of 18ro and 1811 he gained
special
  distinction at the battle of Fuentes d'Onor; and in the expedition to Russia he was present at Smolensk and Valutina, and displayed such bravery and ability in the battle of Borodino that he was made general .of division. Ile won further distinction in the disastrous
retreat
  from Moscow. In the campaign of 1813, in command of a division, he took part in the battles of Liitzen and Bautzen and the operations of
Marshal
  Macdonald, and at the battle of
Leipzig
  (in which he commanded the XI. corps) he was dangerously wounded. After the battle of Bautzen he was created by
Napoleon
  a
count
  of the empire. In the campaign of France of 1814, and especially at La Rothiere and Montereau, he won still greater distinction. After the first restoration he was named by Louis XVIII. grand
cross
  of the Legion of Honour and chevalier of St Louis. In the Hundred Days
Napoleon
  made Gerard a peer of France and placed him in command of the IV. corps of the Army of the North. In this capacity Gerard took a brilliant part in the battle of Ligny (see WATERLOO CAMPAIGN), and on the morning of the 18th of June he was foremost in advising
Marshal
  Grouchy to
march
  to the sound of the guns. Gerard retired to Brussels after the fall of Napoleon, and did not return to France till 1817. He sat as a member of the chamber of deputies in 18221824, and was re-elected in 1827. He took part in the revolution of 183o, after which he was appointed minister of war and named a marshal of France. On account of his health he resigned the office of war minister in the October following, but in 1831 he took the command of the northern army, and was successful in thirteen days in driving the army of Holland out of Belgium. In 1832 he commanded the besieging army in the famous scientific siege of the citadel of Antwerp. He was again chosen war minister in July 1834, but resigned in the October following. In 1836 he was named grand chancellor of the Legion of Honour in succession to Marshal Mortier, and in 1838
commander
  of the National Guards of the Seine, an office which he held till 1842. He became a senator under the empire in 1852, and died on the 17th of April in the same year.


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