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Mortier was an organ manufacturer from Antwerp, Belgium that made dance organs and orchestrions.
Mortier is a pipe organ builder.
Mortier may also refer to:
- Mortier, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- French destroyer Mortier, one of 13 Claymore-class destroyers built for the French Navy
People with the surname Mortier:
- Pieter Mortier (1661–1711), 18th-century mapmaker and engraver from the Northern Netherlands
- Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier (1768–1835), French general
- Gilberte Mortier (1907–1991), French freestyle swimmer
- Roland Mortier (1920–2015), Belgian scientist
- Hans Mortier (1924–2010), Dutch professional wrestler
- Michel Mortier (1925–2015), French furniture designer, interior designer and architect
- Gerard Mortier (1943–2014), Belgian opera director
- Marc Mortier (1948–2004), CEO of Flanders Expo from 1986–2002
- Erwin Mortier (born 1965), Belgian author
Usage examples of "mortier".
The following are the names of these sons of the Republic transformed into props of the Empire: Berthier, Murat, Moncey, Jourdan, Massena, Augereau, Bernadotte, Soult, Brune, Lannes, Mortier, Ney, Davoust, and Besaieres.
General Walmoden had just signed the capitulation of Sublingen with Marshal Mortier, who had the command in Hanover.
The Russians, indeed, were advancing to oppose us, and the corps of our army, commanded by Mortier on the left bank of the Danube, experienced in the first engagement a check at Dirnstein, which not a little vexed the Emperor.
When in 1806 Napoleon marched against Prussia, he detached Marshal Mortier from the Grand Army when it had passed the Rhine, and directed him to invade the Electorate of Hesse, and march on Hamburg.
I went to meet Marshal Mortier to endeavour to dissuade him from entering.
No preparations having been made at Hamburg for the reception of Marshal Mortier, he quartered himself and his whole staff upon me.
By the famous decree of Berlin, dated 21st November 1806, Mortier was compelled to order the seizure of all English merchandise in the Hanse Towns, but he enforced the decree only so far as to preserve the appearance of having obeyed his orders.
He often protected Hamburg against exorbitant exactions, The Hanse Towns revived a little under his government, which continued longer than that of Mortier, Michaud, and Brune.
On the 26th was fought the battle of Fere Champenoise, where, valour yielding to numbers, Marshals Marmont and Mortier were obliged to retire upon Sezanne after sustaining considerable loss.
On the 29th of March Marshals Marmont and Mortier fell back to defend the approaches to Paris.
JOSEPH Montmartre, 30th March 1814, 12 oclock It was not until a considerable time after the receipt of this formal authority that Marmont and Mortier ceased to make a vigorous resistance against the Allied army, for the suspension of arms was not agreed upon until four in the afternoon.
Marshal Mortier, who commanded at Lille, and the Duke of Orleans, expressed to me their well-founded fears, and repeatedly recommended me to urge the King to quit Lille speedily, in order to avoid any fatal occurrence.
His expression subtly transformed, Mortier turned his gaze back to the object of his previous discourse.
The electorate was summoned by Mortier on the 25th of May, and the Hanoverians being unable to resist, soon capitulated possession was taken of the country, and Mortier was enabled to control the navigation of the Elbe, and the Weser, as well as to levy contributions on the rich towns of Hamburg and Bremen.
Soult were Marshal Mortier, with the fifth corps of 16,000 strong, and Ney, with the sixth corps of about 10,000 men under arms.