FOY, MAXJMILIEN SkBASTIEN, a distinguished French gen. and orator, was b. at Ham, 3d Feb. 1775. In 1791, he was one of the volunteers who hastened to defend the frontiers of their country against foreign invasion, and during the next nine years served with distinction under Dumouriez, Moreau, and Massena. "In 1800, he was raised to the rank of adj.gen. in the division of Moncey, in the army of the Rhine, which marched through Switzerland into Italy, where he commanded the vanguard of the army in 1801. In 1805, he commanded the artillery of the second division in the Austrian campaign. In 1807, Napoleon sent him to Turkey at the head of 1200 artillerymen, to assist sultan Selim against the Russians and British. After the revolution in which Selim was dethroned, F., under the direction of the French ambassador, gen. Seba.stiani, defended Constantinople and the strait of the Dardanelles so effectively, that bucliwortli, the British admiral, was obliged to retire with lOSs. From 1808 to 1812, F. .was gen. of
division of the army in Portugal. His talents were exhibited to advantage in conduct-• ing the retreat of the French army across the Douro. F. was present at all the battles of the Pyrenees, and at Orthez, in' 1814, was dangerously wounded. In the campaign of 1815, he commanded a division on the field of Waterloo, where he was wounded for the fifteenth time. In 1819, he was elected deputy by the department of Aisne. In the chamber he was the constant advocate of constitutional liberty, and showed great rhe torical talent and knowledge of political economy. He distinguished himself particu larly by his eloquence in opposing the war against Spain in 1823. F. d. at Paris, Nov. 28, 1825. Mme. Foy published, in 1827, from her husband's papers, a 1Rstoire de la Guerre de la Peninsule. In the previous year appeared, his Discours, with a biography.