The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . l; born in Chartres, March i, the outbreak of the revolution he was appointedinspector of the National Guard in his native town,and in 1792 helped to defend Verdun with a bodyof volunteers till its surrender. Sent to join theRepublican army in La Vendee, he was promotedto the rank of general of division. He commandedthe right wing at Fleurus, and after the allies re-treated, occupied Coblentz. During the campaignof 1796 he was given command of the first divisionof Jourdans army, and sat down to inve
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . l; born in Chartres, March i, the outbreak of the revolution he was appointedinspector of the National Guard in his native town,and in 1792 helped to defend Verdun with a bodyof volunteers till its surrender. Sent to join theRepublican army in La Vendee, he was promotedto the rank of general of division. He commandedthe right wing at Fleurus, and after the allies re-treated, occupied Coblentz. During the campaignof 1796 he was given command of the first divisionof Jourdans army, and sat down to invest Mainz,Mannheim and Coblentz. But whilst covering theretreat of the French at Altenkirchen he was shot,on the 19th of September, and died four days body was buried in the intrenched camp atCoblentz, but was transferred to the Pantheon inParis in 1889. M.^RCELINE, a town of Linn County, northerncentral Missouri, 2)Z miles E. of Chillicothe, on the.\tchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. Coal,limestone, granite, fire-clay and brick-clay are found 24 M A R C H — M A R C Y. PROF. F. A. MARCH. ment, and in 1S73 ^^^^s in the vicinity in large quantities. Population 1890,1,977; 1900, 2,638. MARCH, river. See Moravia, Vol. XVI, p. , See Spain, Vol. XXH, p. , Francis Andrew, an American philolo-gist; born in Millbury, Massachusetts, Oct. 25, 1825; graduated at Amherst Col-lege in 1845; ^3S tutorthere for two years; wasadmitted to the New Yorkbar in 1850, retiring twoyears later on account ofill-health. In 1858 hewas chosen professor ofthe English language andcomparative philology inLafayette College, Easton,Pennsylvania. He devotedhimselfspecially to the An-glo-Saxon language, rank-ing among the foremostscholars in tliat depart-chosen president of theAmerican Philological Association. He was chair-man of the committee of that association, ap-pointed in 1874, which is working with a committeeof the Philological Society of England for a schol-arly
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