d'armee

It is related of Napoleon that his last words were, "Tete d'armee!"

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

General Grant that he would notify me from Washington, I could not with propriety press the matter, but if General Buell should be assigned to me specifically I was prepared to assign him to command all the troops on the Mississippi River from Cairo to Natchez, comprising about three divisions, or the equivalent of a corps d'armee.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Western armies had been grouped into five corps d'armee, viz.: the

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

It so happened that Congress had meantime by successive "enactments" cut down the army to twenty-five thousand men, the usual strength of a corps d'armee, the legitimate command of a lieutenant-general.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

He had received from the North G.neral J.G. Parker's corps (Ninth), which had been posted at Haines's Bluff; then, detailing one division from each of the three corps d'armee investing Vicksburg, he ordered me to go out, take a general command of all, and to counteract any movement on the part of G.neral Johnston to relieve Vicksburg.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Then, by allowing to an infantry corps a brigade of cavalry and six batteries of field-artillery, we would have an efficient corps d'armee of thirty thousand men, whose organization would be simple and most efficient, and whose strength should never be allowed to fall below twenty-five thousand men.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

But Napoleon was now insensible to the tears of his servants; he had scarcely spoken for two days; early in the morning he articulated a few broken sentences, among which the only words distinguishable were, "tete d'armee," the last that ever left his lips, and which indicated the tenor of his fancies.

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Claymore's mixed brigade, still holding together, closed the rear of Porter's powder-scorched _corps d'armee_.

Ailsa Paige 1899

Sykes's division, Fitz John Porter's superb corps d'armee, neared the designated rendezvous, some particularly dirty veteran regiments, bivouacked along the fields, crowded to the roadside, fairly writhing in their scorn and derision.

Ailsa Paige 1899

It was divided into three corps d'armee, each consisting of three divisions, and commanded by an officer with the rank of lieutenant-general.

A Life of Gen Robert E Lee Cooke, John E 1876