Meanings
plural marshallates
- alternativeAlternative spelling of marshalate.
What I was trying to get at was the inherent violation of privacy involved in setting the marshallate to keep pregnant persons off the field, ...
2000, February 16, Hasoferet, Fighting while pregnant, rec.org.sca3 more examples
The fact that of these 14 marshals, 7 came from Napoleon's army of Italy and 7 from the armies of the Rhine with their much more revolutionary tradition, leads some commentators to see the institution of the marshallate as an act of political reconciliation.
1996, Victor Sutcliffe, The Sandler Collection: An Annotated Bibliography of Books Relating to the Military History of the French Revolution and Empire in the Library of John Sandler, page 204"But Marie, your soldier Emperor, who spread the ideas of the French Revolution to the walls of the Kremlin, said his invincible Grand Army was based on the principle of advancing from the ranks to the marshallate. He stated this in his grenadier-to-marshall maxim which you may know in the original."
2008, Robert B. Whitebrook, Toshi American, page 59The members of his marshallate left him in no doubt. The military situation was impossible; therefore, there was absolutely no point in continuing to fight and the Emperor must abdicate.
2013, Bryan Perrett, Why the Germans Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Black Eagle, page 44
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