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Cyberpunk 2077: The 10 Best Skills To Get In Blades
Cyberpunk 2077 is not a linear game. Night City has too many side gigs, choices, and lifestyles to funnel players down a singular path. The game is classified as a first-person shooter, but even that can be altered to become a first-person stabber. If you're wanting to take a knife or katana and dice your way through underworld mobs and corpo overlords, you're in the right place.
Look, every single skill in the blades tree is fantastic. Seriously. There are no wrong answers. But, unfortunately, the game is reluctant to give out skill points, so you will likely not be able to select everything you want by the time the credits start rolling. So we must face the fact that some of these answers are right-er than others. If you only get ten skills to dabble in, these should be your top contenders.
Deathbolt
While wielding a blade, defeating an enemy restores 20% health and increases movement speed by 30% for 5 seconds.
Restoring 20% of your health is absurd. Even on the highest difficulty settings, this essentially ensures that you can walk up to any mob, haphazardly slash them down, and, by the time the last body falls, you'll still be topped off on health. The movement speed makes this even easier to achieve, allowing you to hack the frontlines down and then chase down the snipers immediately afterward.
Dodging recovers 15%/25%/30% stamina.
The ability has a 2-second cooldown.
The cooldown is unlisted in the tooltip, but even with the two-second limitation, you'll essentially never had to worry about stamina again. You can dodge anytime, even if no attack is incoming, and the movement will still satisfy this skill. It's really helpful for establishing a rhythm in battle. Dodge toward an enemy, slice them down, then dodge again and repeat.
Float Like A Butterfly
Dodging increases damage with blades by 25%/50% for 5 seconds.
This works in perfect tandem with the last skill, it simply operates offensively instead of defensively. If you're dodging every couple of seconds as you should, then you've essentially increased your damage by 50% without ever having to break your stride. It really sets the blades apart from the guns, since most of those trees settle for 5% incremental damage increases whereas this is a whopping 50%.
Sting Like A Bee
Increases attack speed with blades by 10%/20%/30%.
Blades are already viciously fast, with most fully upgraded varieties doing five slashes per second. You can bump that up to almost seven per second with this and you definitely should. Each slash has a chance to crit and apply status effects, so squeezing an extra 30% attack speed in will yield a damage result even greater than 30%.
Offensive Defense
Defensive blade attacks deal 200%/400% more damage.
If you've invested your points correctly, you can reliably slice away your problems without ever having to enter a defensive stance for almost all of the game. There are times, though, that you'll fight a high-threat boss or cyberpsycho and won't have any minions around to restore health by killing. In these situations, you'll want to remain in a defensive stance and get your attacks in at the perfect time. This skill makes it so a fifteen-minute boss fight might only take three minutes, so it's worth the investment.
Roaring Waters
Strong attacks with blades deal 30%/40%/50% more damage.
There is no shame in using mostly primary attacks from this weapon, but you should always lead with a strong attack if it's possible. Snipers like to think they have the market cornered on one-hit kills, but this skill will put you right there with them on a majority of the targets in the game.
Blessed Blade
Increases crit chance with blades by 20%.
Crit chance on armor and mods don't seem to stack very well (the community is still trying to figure out the math on that), so getting a 20% increase to crit chance via the skill tree is a nice, clean way of getting an extra crit in. If you think about it, with five attacks per second, this skill makes it highly probable that at least one of those attacks will be a critical hit. Doing critical damage once per second is not something even medium threat targets are going to endure for more than one flurry.
Judge, Jury, And Executioner
Increases damage of blades by 50%/75%/100% against enemies with max health.
If you've been following along, you've been able to make it so you can one-hit kill your standard goons. But what about the rest? Put three points into this and bosses will fall no differently than the hordes of mobsters they employ. A strong attack doing double damage, even if it doesn't outright kill a cyberpsycho, will leave it so crippled that the rest of the fight will snowball heavily in your favor.
Fiery Blast
Increases damage with blades by 1%/2%/3% for every 1% health the enemy is missing.
The tooltip on this skill reads incorrectly as of the current patch, stating that blades do 1% damage for every 1%/2%/3% health missing, which would technically reduce the damage for every skill point spent. Never fear, it functions correctly and you'll be doing more damage as fights last longer. Threatening targets count on drawn-out fights, and this skill effectively flips the table on them, giving you the advantage as targets start taking more damage over prolonged engagements.
While wielding a blade, recover 7%/10% health when applying bleeding effects to an enemy or hitting an enemy with a bleed effect.
You'll be applying lots of bleed effects. Even with a bad knife or katana, you'll average about one bleed effect per second. After getting that effect to go off, you'll have lifesteal. In groups of stronger enemies that require multiple swings, this ensures that your offense is your best defense, absorbing back health in even the heaviest firestorm of bullets. As a secondary bonus, this also frees up cybernetic spaces dedicated to healing abilities so you can focus on doing what you do best: Turning the goons of Night City into 1×1 inch cubes.
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BALTIMORE — Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton's torrid 2012 season now includes his first career four-home-run game, all of them two-run shots in a 10-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles.
"Obviously it's, other than being in the World Series, the highlight of my big-league career," Hamilton said.
Hamilton homered off Jake Arrieta in the first and third innings, added another off Zach Phillips in the seventh and topped it off with a one-for-the-books shot against Darren O'Dayin the eighth. During the last at-bat, Hamilton took a mighty hack and missed, lined a foul into the right-field seats and then sent an 0-2 pitch over the center-field wall.
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It marked the 16th four-home-run game in major league history. Hamilton is the first to accomplish the feat since Carlos Delgado did so on Sept. 25, 2003, for Toronto against Tampa Bay. Two of the 16 players to hit four homers in a game did it before 1900. Hamilton is the sixth AL player to perform the feat.
"History was witnessed tonight," Rangers manager Ron Washington said.
Even Delgado was impressed, congratulating Hamilton on Twitter.
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"It's like anything else — you do something good or something incredible happens, it takes a little bit for it to sink in," Hamilton said. "I think when I get away from everybody and I have some time to myself, I think it might then."
Hamilton's record-setting night is the latest accomplishment in a career that almost never was.
He went from first round draft pick in 1999 by Tampa Bay to out of baseball all together because of drug and alcohol addiction.
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Hamilton also hit a two-run home run in his final at-bat on Monday's win over Baltimore, giving him five such homers in his last six at-bats.
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by holy vehm » Wed May 22, 2013 4:53 pm
Zee Germans, zay are ere.
Travel by train, tram or bus to destinations in central England and you are increasingly likely to be greeted by Britain's 'yellowjackets': the high-visibility uniforms of Britain's police force.
'Airport-style' security checkpoints are being rolled out at local bus and train stations up and down the UK after local pilot schemes conducted over the last two years were deemed a success by police.
The checkpoints comprise metal detector arches, drug-sniffing dogs , police pat-downs and bag searches. The reason? To "help people who use public transport feel safer."
Over the last couple of years more and more of these 'security' checkpoints have been quietly introduced at local bus and train stations across the UK under a number of pretexts that simply don't bear up to scrutiny.
One such stop-and-search operation last week (May 15th) at West Bromwich bus station in the West Midlands, was captured in this short video clip showing a police officer rifling through a man's pockets [1] while he holds up his wallet for potential inspection. The other photographs here were tweeted by Sandwell Police on the day.
According to the police this operation and others like it are not related to the ongoing mission creep that police so often attempt to justify with their trump card of 'terrorism'; instead they represent an increasing shift towards 'pro-active' policies which threaten to become a part of everyday policing in Britain today. This Youtube clip shows a 'Day of Action' by Sandwell Police, who took to Twitter to explain that,"the aim of this operation is to reduce crime and anti social behaviour and offer community reasurance (sic) and assist in any prosecutions," [specifically to] "focus on drugs and anti-social behaviour."
Quite how emptying people's pockets can reduce 'anti-social behaviour' is not clear, but by the end of the day the police were busy tweeting the day's results:
at West Bromwich bus station. Lots of people stopped but no drugs found."
The tweets continued, "We've had some nice feedback regarding our 'day of action'. Thanks for your support. No crime has been reported in West Bromwich town today!"
So, with no drugs found and no crime of any kind reported, what possible value could there be in stopping and searching hundreds of law-abiding citizens? Perhaps the following tweet provides one of several possible answers: "20 people have been checked on the police national computer (PNC). Some have previous convictions for robbery so intelligence has [been] submitted."
Leaving aside the obvious injustice of stopping and searching everybody 'just in case' one or two people turn out to be guilty of some wrongdoing, these indiscriminate fishing expeditions are neither an effective way to 'catch criminals' nor to 'keep us safe'.
Last week's 'day of action' at West Bromwich bus station is by no means a one-off, and this apparently crime-free bus station is no stranger to such police operations. In 2010 Sandwell Police launched a 'Safer Travel' scheme called Safer Six, a pilot scheme carried out in six towns across the region over a six week period spanning October and November. It too was branded as a "community reassurance" exercise designed "to help people who use public transport feel safer," as one local Sergeant put it. More specifically the police explained, "Our aim is to detect people who are carrying weapons." This video [3] shows the travelling public being herded through a metal detector arch (often described by police in Orwellian terms, as "safety arches") before being stopped, searched and sniffed up by a police drugs dog. The operation was repeated in the autumn of 2011 and again in 2012 and was considered so successful that it is now being rolled out across the entire West Midlands region on a permanent basis. A press release [4] by West Midlands Police in January 2013 states that:
"Airport-style metal detectors popped-up at West Bromwich bus station yesterday as a police blitz on knife crime continued. Around 500 commuters of all ages passed through the portable devices – known by police as knife arches – in just four hours."
Just how successful was the operation then? Well, about as 'successful' as last week's 'day of action':
"No knives or other illegal items were recovered in the operation. No arrests were made," the press release reveals.
Perhaps all the knife-wielding criminals managed to avoid detection by not using buses and trains for the full six weeks? Well no, it seems that knife-wielding criminals are a bit thin on the ground in West Bromwich, as the police acknowledged:
"The decision to set up the knife arches in West Bromwich wasn't based on there being large instances of knife crime in the town, but part of an ongoing and broader safety programme which will be replicated at bus, tram and train stations across the entire West Midlands in the coming days."
Once again we are told that we must sacrifice our rights and freedoms in the name of 'safety', even though police admit that the supposed risk of harm is somewhat negligible and not the real focus of the operation anyway.
If the success of the operation is not judged by the number of arrests made, or the quantity of drugs and weapons seized, or the number of dangerous criminals taken off the streets, then what is the purpose of these exercises? Perhaps the phrase "public reassurance" could be more accurately expressed another way. How about "conditioning the public to accept the ever-growing police state by normalising such unnecesssary and demeaning security theatre." Or "exploiting dubious safety fears to deprive citizens of their fundamental rights and freedoms." Or how about "inverting the centuries-old fundamental legal principle that we are all 'innocent until proven guilty' by treating us all as suspects, demanding that we prove our innocence." I could go on…
The following line from a well known novel accurately describes policing in Britain today:
"For distances of less than 100 kilometres it was not necessary to get your passport endorsed, but sometimes there were patrols hanging about the railway stations, who examined the papers of any Party member they found there and asked awkward questions."
(George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four).
The truth is that these police operations aim to condition the public to accept, submit and grow accustomed to what is essentially an unlawful stop and search.
Section 1 of PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act) [5] does allow 'Stop and Search', but only if the police have 'reasonable grounds' to suspect that someone has committed a crime, as explained in PACE Code of Practice 'Code A' (.pdf) [6]. The Code says, "There must be an objective basis for that suspicion based on facts, information, and/or intelligence which are relevant to the likelihood of finding an article of a certain kind" and "Reasonable suspicion cannot be based on generalisations or stereotypical images of certain groups or categories of people" [such as 'users of public transport'] "as more likely to be involved in criminal activity."
A police officer needs 'reasonable grounds' to suspect you are carrying a weapon, drugs or stolen goods, or that you are a terrorist. Can any of these justifications be applied to an entire arrivals terminal at a transport hub? No, of course not.
Since checkpoints like these are being applied en masse to people whom the police have absolutely no "reasonable grounds" to suspect of criminality, the police cannot lawfully compel people to submit to such searches. Therefore the public must be doing so "voluntarily," although somehow I suspect that they are not told this.
In the upside-down Orwellian world that we now inhabit, the only real criminals identified at West Bromwich bus station during their 'day of action' are the police themselves. Substitute the term 'brownshirts' for 'yellowjackets' and you get the picture.
To quote the Russian novelist who provided the original inspiration for George Orwell's dystopian classic, 'Nineteen Eighty-Four':
"When a man's freedom is reduced to zero, he commits no crimes. That's clear. The only means to rid man of crime is to rid him of freedom."
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, 'We'.
Steve Jolly is a campaigner, journalist and spokesman for the campaign group No CCTV. He has written for the London Guardian, Big Brother Watch and Infowars. His successful campaign against 'Project Champion' – a police surveillance operation in Birmingham UK – forced the Chief constable to publicly apologise, scrap the scheme and remove 216 surveillance cameras from parts of the city. He was nominated for a Human Rights Award in 2010 and appeared before the UK parliament to give evidence on the Protection of Freedoms Bill about new CCTV laws. Steve writes and gives media interviews about camera surveillance and related issues.
[1] Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1UX7QXzJf8&feature=youtu.be
[2] Photo on Sandwell Police Twitter feed: pic.twitter.com/Wa1zuw08Tf
[3] Youtube video fof Safer Six operation by Sandwell Police: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB7y1SloHyM
[4] Press release by Sandwell Police: http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/np/sandwell/news/newsitem.asp?id=11884
[5] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/1
[6] http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/police/operational-policing/pace-codes/pace-code-a-2011?view=Binary
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by Freeman Stephen » Wed May 22, 2013 7:19 pm
Stop and search is a crime in its own right and those conducting them are oblivious to this. There are sometimes circumstances where a stop and search is a justifiable wrongdoing when there is a danger of a greater wrongdoing and a stop and search can prevent the greater wrong. For example an accuser who stops and searches an alleged thief will suffer if his allegation is wrong but prevent a real thief from causing someone to suffer but the police have given up all responsability for their actions and are never made to suffer for their crimes because they have authority at the end of a stick despite never taking responsability.
Far be it from me to say that having a professional full time set of employees to guard against crime is a bad thing but when the rules for the police are so different fromcthe rules for the people, there can be no legitimacy given to police from people who may not do as they do.
If its a crime for anyone in a free society to speculatively stop and search people, its a crime for everyone and the police cannot be granted powers from those who do not have them to grant.
Yet another example of why a revolution is brewing.
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Ryan Giggs picks his dream Manchester United five-a-side team
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Ryan Giggs played with a long list of world class players during his 24 years at Manchester United but has narrowed that selection down to a quintet to pick his dream five-a-side team.
Having signed his first professional contract in 1990 and retiring from playing in 2014, Giggs spanned many great team at Old Trafford and some huge names have missed out on his ideal five.
There is no room for Roy Keane, Ruud van Nistelrooy misses out, the likes of Dennis Irwin, David Beckham and Gary Neville all fail to make the cut, as does Giggs himself.
Starting at the back, the Wales manager had no explanation for his goalkeeper as he ignored Edwin van der Saar.
'[Peter] Schmeichel,' Giggs told Jamie Carragher's The Greatest Game Podcast.
He then moved onto the one defender in his team: 'Jaap Stam. You just couldn't get past him in training. Once he had hold of you he was too strong, too quick, he was aggressive. He was just the best.
'Obviously he didn't strike a partnership with anyone like Bruce-Pallister or Vidic-Ferdinand. Vidic-Ferdinand was the best partnership, that was amazing.
'But Jaap, for them couple of years, he was just unbelievable. It was a big shock [when he left].'
Moving into midfield there was one name that Giggs was never going to leave out, his long-time teammate Paul Scholes.
'Scholesy, midfield, doesn't give the ball away,' the Welshman continued. 'It was the little things, he would choose the right passes, be comfortable getting it in small spaces, the disguise, little nutmegs and he had that nasty size as well.'
Moving into attack, there was another Englishman that Giggs had in mind: '[Wayne] Rooney. He was an animal, closing down, holding the ball up, scoring goals. He's top goal scorer for United and England!
'When he was at it, he was unplayable.'
There were plenty of options for Giggs to choose a strike partner for Rooney but it had to be one name, really.
'Ronaldo,' he said. 'He was so inconsistent but all of a sudden went up to a different level.
'[Sir Alex] Ferguson had massive confidence in him, he was one of the players he never had a go at, never. He had that confidence off the manager.
'I can't believe he's that good a goal-scorer because you've just never seen it. He's a proper goal scorer, his movement, he's always in the right place.
'You never could have foreseen he'd become a goal-scorer like he has because he was a winger, unpredictable, sometimes hit the first man, sometimes beat three or four players. He's gone from that to one of the best goal-scorers ever.'
So the final line-up is set at: Schmeichel, Stam, Scholes, Rooney and Ronaldo.
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When a teen girl is struggling to heal after a traumatic event, she can find the help she needs in a residential treatment program. Trauma can wreak havoc on a young girl's life, leaving her unable to appropriately function and potentially causing her to adopt maladaptive coping skills if not treated.
Fortunately, research shows that trauma counseling is helpful, particularly when it is customized to the nature, timing, and amount of exposure to a trauma. The leading trauma treatment centers is committed to helping young women overcome their trauma and move forward in their life.
The following offers a detailed look at trauma therapy, starting with what types of traumatic events a teen may experience and maladaptive behaviors she may exhibit before moving into what trauma therapy is, how it works, and the numerous benefits associated with trauma therapy in a residential setting.
While every teen girl is different, there are some reactions or behaviors that are commonly seen in victims who do not receive proper treatment. They may develop psychiatric disorders, including depression, various behavioral disorders, anxiety, and PTSD. Over time, this can affect their school work, ability to interact with others, and self-esteem.
In some cases, they may lash out violently at others, hurt themselves, or engage in promiscuous behaviors. Drug and alcohol abuse is also a significant concern, as more than 70% of adolescent substance abusers report a history of trauma.
Trauma therapy often takes a cognitive-behavioral approach and includes individual, family and group trauma therapy sessions. At a speed that doesn't cause distress, she will talk about the event(s), as well as her feelings during and after. This allows her to explore painful feels, examine how the trauma has affected her daily life, and work to resolve the impact it may have had on her life.
During this time, the distorted ideas that are present in so many victims, such as how something they did or did not do caused the trauma, are explored and corrected.
Additionally, there is a significant focus on learning relaxation skills and proper coping techniques that teach her how to respond in a healthier and productive manner. This also includes working past any unhealthy views, such as believing she can never have a normal life in the future, and learning to reconnect with activities she enjoyed before the trauma, particularly if she is struggling with isolation.
Depending on the type of trauma, somatic experiencing may be incorporated into a teen's treatment plan. This involves the slow introduction of traumatic material with a trained therapist who frequently assesses the teen's physical responses, such as shallow breathing or a change in posture, and somatic sensations, such as feelings of chest tightness or dizziness.
As time progresses, the teen is able to experience sensations that remind her of the trauma in a safe way that allows her to fully process the event.
Family therapy is a component of trauma therapy. This ensures parents are actively involved in treatment, while also providing the opportunity to heal fractured relationships and restore healthy bonds within the family.
Trauma treatment centers are particularly beneficial for teens. Staffed by qualified and caring individuals, they provide a safe, nurturing, and structured environment where she can focus entirely on her full recovery, which includes the mind, body, and spirit. Also in this 24/7 environment, teens are able to engage in a variety of proven therapeutic interventions, such as equine and adventure therapy.
This helps build strong relationships with staff members and peers, which provides solace in knowing she is not alone and helps facilitate healing.
When a teen girl has experienced a traumatic event, ensuring that she gets the trauma therapy and treatment she needs is crucial for healing. At Turning Winds, we are dedicated to helping young women work through the painful event and move forward with a life that is happy and productive.


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Key Takeaways: Kyle Dubas addresses 2020 draft picks & plans for free agency
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In his media address after the conclusion of the 2020 NHL Draft, General Manager Kyle Dubas discussed his decision not to qualify Frederik Gauthier and Jeremy Bracco, the areas in which he wants to improve the team heading into the UFA period on Friday, how he plans to make the team "harder to play against," and much more.
The Leafs were not in on the sweepstakes for now-Senators goaltender Matt Murray, says Dubas: "That is not a market we were in with Fred and Jack here." Murray moved for a second-round pick and prospect Jonathan Gruden.
In the decision to let him walk as an unqualified RFA, the team saw Jeremy Bracco as both drowned out by the depth at RW on the current roster and overtaken by other wing prospects pushing in the organization — Nick Robertson, Nick Abruzzese, and Filip Hallander were mentioned by Dubas among those in the latter category.
The team was undecided until close to the October 7, 5 p.m. ET RFA qualifying deadline on what to do with Frederik Gauthier, but it sounds like they had their interest piqued by other unqualified RFAs set to hit the open market and chose to let him walk. "We were probably just going to look for a bit of a change at that part in our lineup," said Dubas. It sounds like the Leafs have been in contact with a few RFA-turned-UFAs already (Nick Cousins, who played his final year of junior under then-Soo coach Sheldon Keefe and final two under then-Soo GM Kyle Dubas, seems like one possibility).
Dubas mentioned addressing the "bottom end" of the forward lineup, making the team tougher to play against, and wanting to improve on defense. He did mention optimism about the depth on the blue line (Dermott, Sandin, Liljegren, Rosen, Kivihalme, Rubins, Hollowell, Duszak were all mentioned) but clarified, "It is just [about] finding guys who are perhaps able to make an immediate impact on the backend in various different ways."
There was a telling answer about the need to open cap space that hinted the Leafs are thinking less "big splash" — in either UFA or trade — and more bargain bin hunting: "We don't really have any contracts that we look at and say, 'We need to get rid of this player, this player isn't delivering on it at all.' Some may disagree, and that is fine and fair, but we are pretty content with our group and where it is at. There may be some trades as we get closer to and can acquire players that have lower AAVs and can help us in different areas and then roll from there."
Another notable quote on Dubas' plans to make the team harder to play against: "They may not be some of the typical names that everyone looks at and goes, 'We know that guy is tough in the typical sense' … We want players who are really competitive night in and night out, who make life hard on the opposition with their speed, pressure, and physicality — but they have to be able to play as well."
Asked about the perceived lack of size among the Leafs' 2020 draft class, Dubas reiterated his familiar refrains about betting on skill and swinging for home runs in addition to this interesting quote: "I would love it if every one of our guys was 6'2 or 6'3, but we can address that issue in free agency and trade." The door is open there for his critics to ask: If it's so easily done via trade and FA, why hasn't it been done yet? On the other side of the argument, he has added a size/toughness element — in the form of players who can play — via trade with his previous Jake Muzzin and Kyle Clifford acquisitions.
It might have been surprising a few weeks back if you were told the Leafs were not going to move any of their own picks for immediate help while actually adding two more draft selections, but certainly, adding 12 new prospects into the stable — including a 15th overall prospect — will give them the free rein to use some of the gun powder in the form of their 2021 draft picks in trades throughout the upcoming year. "Our next draft is 2021 and we have our first, our second, and if we can move those out for help, we won't hesitate to do so," said Dubas.
New Leafs assistant coach Manny Malhotra will be handling power-play duties on the Leafs bench, and the team believes Mikko Lehtonen can be a factor on the man advantage. "I am not sure what unit he will be on — that will be up to [the coaching staff] — but certainly, he'll be able to provide some punch that way and also be able to defend as well," said Dubas.
Dubas on the decision to let Frederik Gauthier & Jeremy Bracco walk, other non-qualified RFAs around the league
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Can you address the decision to not qualify Frederik Gauthier or Jeremy Bracco?
Dubas: With Fred, he has been a part of the organization for a long time. He was a first-round pick going back a number of years now. He was an important part of the Marlies winning a championship in 2018 and then he became a full-time NHLer for us.
We just felt that, as we learned more and more about the different guys going to market and the different teams giving different players permission to speak to others, we were probably just going to look for a bit of a change at that part in our lineup. At the same time we, do right by Fred and give him the chance to explore the market as well. That was it with him.
With Jeremy Bracco, for us, it was just time to move forward and we wish him the best in wherever he plays next.
Why do you think things didn't work out for Jeremy Bracco here in Toronto?
Dubas: I just think Jeremy was in a situation where, as a right winger on our team — and we saw this with the Kapanen trade — the way that he plays… Even with the Marlies going back to 2018, in the first round of the playoffs, he was up in the lineup and Sheldon tried to give him opportunities to stay in the lineup. When Johnsson came back from the Leafs after their Game 7 loss to Boston, Jeremy couldn't find his way in, and he was beaten out by other younger players — not by older guys.
I think he is somebody who needs an opportunity at the top of the lineup somewhere. He wasn't going to have that here with William and Mitch and our wingers. Going back to Kapanen, now you have Barabanov coming in. You have Hallander. You have Nick Robertson and Nick Abruzzese on the way.
He was going to have to go on waivers next year. It was just a situation of him being in an organization that had guys that were bossing him out. Now he will have his opportunity to go elsewhere and find a better fit for him.
Have you seen players who weren't qualified that are likely to be of interest to you?
Dubas: Particularly on Fred, we were really undecided in the last couple of days. As different teams started to announce who they were going to be qualifying and who they weren't earlier, we just kind of said, "Maybe we should just be patient and see a little bit what is going to happen with some of these guys." That is what we decided to do with Fred. We were able to see on Monday, or whatever the day was, that teams start to announce those and a few more guys are going to be available. There are certainly some players that haven't been qualified that are of interest to us.
There were a number of noteworthy players who were not qualified. Do you think the flat cap has anything to do with the higher number of RFAs becoming UFA? Did it play at all into your decision?
Dubas: It didn't play into our decisions. I do think that, because it is hard to predict how arbitration awards will factor into the current economics of the game or whether they will just be based on the former comparable cases and precedents, it makes it tough to really know what the arb awards are going to be. With the number of dollars so tight, even with the variance between what may be the player and team submission — the projected numbers in both cases — you may not be able to handle that as a team as you go your way.
When you are going to a neutral arbitrator to decide that, it might be a risk you're just not willing to take. If you couldn't work out a deal with the player, it may be the case that you just have to let them walk and try to find a solution through free agency or trade. I certainly think that the economics and the situation in the world play a factor in that for sure.
Dubas on the team's free agency plans
By 5 or 6 p.m. on Friday, what do you hope to have realistically accomplished by then?
Dubas: I don't know is the answer. I know what we are looking to accomplish, but I don't know if we will have done it by Frida at 5 or 6 p.m. There is no interview period. I don't think everything is going to happen rapidly on Friday at Noon. It may take a few days. In addition to that, I just think the economic landscape is going to force things to lengthen a few days out and perhaps even a week. It may resemble something closer to NBA free agency or MLB free agency, where things don't happen as rapidly right off the hop or at the starting gun at Noon. I think it might be a little bit longer.
We are looking to become a harder group to play against, particularly in the lower end of our forward group, and we are looking to improve ourselves on defense. We feel good about where we are in net. We feel really good about where we are at the top-end of our forward group. We feel great about our depth on defense and what is coming with regards to Travis Dermott continuing to develop, Rasmus Sandin, Timothy Liljegren, Calle Rosen, Teemu Kivihalme, Kristian Rubins, Mac Hollowell, Joey Duszak, etc. It is just finding guys who are perhaps able to make an immediate impact on the backend in various different ways.
We are excited about it. It is a good opportunity for us. You just have to be prepared for anything. If things happen quickly, we will be ready to go. If it becomes a little bit more of a patient process, that is fine by us as well.
How do you go about making your team harder to play against? Is there a certain type of player you are looking for?
Dubas: I think what we are looking for — and I don't know if it is going to be in a prototypical way — is that we want players who are really competitive night in and night out, who make life hard on the opposition with their speed, pressure, and physicality — but they have to be able to play as well.
They may not be some of the typical names that everyone looks at and goes, "We know that guy is tough in the typical sense." We have done a lot of work in studying what exactly we want and what type of group we think would be able to compete at an effective level for our team. Sheldon and I have spent a lot of time on it and our pro scouting staff has spent a lot of time on it.
We have got a good sense of what we are trying to do. It is just a matter now of whether the market will allow us to and whether cap space will allow us to.
With the lack of trade activity around the draft outside of a few deals — Matt Murray to Ottawa, Lias Andersson to LA — do you think it picks up in the next few days?
Dubas: It is hard to say. There were far less than usual at the draft. I don't think that has to do with the in-person versus virtual format of the draft. I think it is more to do with the fact that there were some trades earlier on — our Kapanen deal with Pittsburgh late August — and then not a lot of teams have a lot of cap space. The teams that do are handling it very judiciously, as they should. The free agent market, nobody really knows what is going to happen because of those same economics impacting it.
It is at a bit of a standstill. Free agency will probably aid that quite a bit in terms of starting to shake it loose. I don't know what the trade market will look like, though, beyond that. Because this is such an uncertain time, we just have to be as prepared as possible for whatever may come our way in terms of opportunities or trades.
Would you like to increase your cap space ahead of Friday?
Dubas: Always. Brandon would appreciate that as well. Of course, we would. Going back to the question about trades, I am not sure that we would be able to do that without making a poor trade of players that we like. We don't really have any contracts that we look at and say, "We need to get rid of this player, this player isn't delivering on it at all." Some may disagree, and that is fine and fair, but we are pretty content with our group and where it is at.
There may be some trades as we get closer to and can acquire players that have lower AAVs and can help us in different areas and then roll from there. We will see how that all plans out. Certainly, cap space is very important, especially as we look to improve our team. We will see what we are able to do.
Do you think GMs will be waiting for a big signing to open the floodgates and establish the market, or do you think a lot of GMs already know what guys are going to be going for?
Dubas: I don't have a real true sense. Some teams have granted agents permission and players permission. Even for some of those players that have had permission to talk to other teams, the prices have seemed to push down a little already. I think agents — certainly agents that have a deep read of the market — are preparing for the fact that this may not be free agency as usual. It is because there is no cap growth and teams have their own internal RFAs to sign that they want to be a part of their team for a long time, so there just isn't the money out there.
You might see a group sign very early Friday early afternoon or late evening, and then there could be a big group of players that are searching just for the best opportunity for their career and perhaps not dollars. I have no idea. I haven't talked to teams about that, and any information we are getting about that is from agents of our own players or for those that have been granted permission from their teams to speak to others.
Dubas on the Leafs' 2020 draft
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Do you feel you were able to accomplish what you set out to do with the 2020 draft?
Dubas: We won't know that answer for a number of years, but I think everyone feels good about it now. Right away, it gets turned over to our development department. These are very different times to be developing players. We are going to be challenged in that regard. We have got plans already for how we are going to handle it. Scott Pellerin and his staff will do a great job, and once the players get to the Marlies, Greg Moore, AJ MacLean and Rob Davison will do a great job with them there.
We were happy with the draft. We were happy with the haul of players that we came away with. Now it is up to us to develop them into prospects that can play in the NHL for us and continue at the same time to move into the next few days and get ready to improve our roster in any way we can.
Does it give you any relief that many of your picks currently have somewhere to play and get reps in?
Dubas: That really didn't enter into our mind a whole lot, but it certainly, at the very least, gives us games of theirs to watch and be able to kind of build our database further on them. All of the picks we made are already added into our database for development and tracking and so on and so forth.
It is nice that nearly all of them are up and running. Even William Villeneuve in the QMJHL is, of course, up and running as well. We have quite a few of them that are junior or returning to junior or their college hasn't announced what is happening this year that don't have a certain place to play, but it is certainly appealing to us.
You made three trades — trading up, trading down, and then adding a pick at the end. What goes into that thought process?
Dubas: With the first trade back, our feeling was that we had a lot of players in that kind of cluster — especially as we saw how the round was going — and it wasn't as predictable, certainly, as the first round in terms of where players were going relative to our own list and evaluations. As it started to get closer down to our pick, we felt we'd like to get another pick close by with 59 and 64. Ottawa was looking to move up. We were really happy with the outcome and to get Hirvonen and Niemela with those two picks.
With the pick in the fifth round for Ovchinnikov, we weren't sure he would be there if we waited. It just comes with evaluating your list and who your other players are. With all of those other players in the sixth and seventh round, we thought it would be a good use of them because it allows us to get a player much further up our list. We made that jump with Bill Zito in Florida.
At the end, we had a lot of guys we liked still there. We had Ryan Tverberg in Toronto here that we really liked. He was still there, and there were teams that were looking to move back into next year, so we made that move with Boston.
All different circumstances, all dictated by the work our scouts had down throughout the year and the players they liked and felt we could get by doing those three separate things.
Were you surprised not to use one of your top picks this year in a trade for immediate help prior to the opening of the free-agent market?
Dubas: If there were an opportunity to trade those picks for players that we felt could help the team immediately, we would have done so. There just weren't those opportunities there. As you saw, there was only one trade, and it was for a goaltender who is a year away from unrestricted free agency. It is a great trade for Ottawa and for Pittsburgh. That was about it in terms of trades for players who can provide immediate help. That is not a market we were in with Fred [Andersen] and Jack [Campbell].
Sometimes, that is the way the market goes. I know there were a lot of people who wanted to see that, but the reality is, we are going to head into the offseason. Our next draft is 2021 and we have our first, our second, and if we can move those out for help, we won't hesitate to do so.
Do you completely disregard size when drafting? Where does it fit into the equation for you?
Dubas: We would love to have players that are very big and very talented. We draft a certain way, and if the player is a good player and they're tall or short, it doesn't matter to us. If a player is a tall player or a big player but they're a bad player, they're not going to suddenly become good because they are 6'4 and 225 pounds.
If you look back at our drafts or a lot of them in hockey, the guys that usually end up hitting later on are guys who were overlooked for some reason — size is an issue, skating is the issue sometimes. There are a lot of examples of players that were overlooked because of their size that end up becoming great picks in the second or third through to the seventh round.
I would love it if every one of our guys was 6'2 or 6'3, but we can address that issue in free agency and trade. We more look at the draft as our chance to really kind of strike with home runs and guys that can really become impact players. In free agency and trade, those guys cost a lot.
That is the way we set out to do it. I know that it gets a lot of chatter and discussion, but the reality is, none of these guys are going to make the team next year and be a part of the team next year. You already see with some of the picks that they have already grown quite a bit from the last time they were seen or measured by anybody because of the draft being a number of months later than it normally is and measurements now being seven or eight months apart.
These guys are going to grow. They are going to get bigger. Some of them may not, but they are very good players. The other thing for us is that, Amirov is not a small guy by any stretch, but Amirov, Hirvonen, Niemela, Ovchinnikov, and Rindell — they are already playing in men's professional hockey at the highest level, whether it is Finland or Russia. We know what they are able to do in those leagues at those levels. Obviously, it is not the NHL, but it gives us a lot of positive thought about how they will be able to handle it.
They're all young. They're young people and young players. They are going to continue to grow and get bigger. That is sort of how we always look at that.
Dubas on drafting and signing Russian players, Mikko Lehtonen's hot start in the KHL
You haven't shied away from Russians in the draft. How does that help the Leafs distinguish themselves and find some hidden gems that some other teams seem to be scared of?
Dubas: I don't know that other teams are scared of them. I mean, we play in a division against Tampa Bay, and they have some pretty distinguished Russian players on their club that helped them win a Cup — big time. I don't know that there is fear.
One of the things that we talked about last night is our scouting staff in Russia and Latvia — Grigori Shafigulin and Olegs Koreskovs do a great job there, and Jim Paliafito, our Director of Player Evaluation, has done an excellent job of building relationships with clubs and agents and players in Russia.
We have enough players who have come over from Russia and we try to make the adjustment as easy on them as possible. The community in Toronto is great with welcoming them here. That is a real positive for us.
Mikko Lehtonen is off to a big start in the KHL. What are some of the positives he can bring to the team as a rookie?
Dubas: He has been able to start playing with Jokerit. They had a bit of a scare there early in the season where they shut down for a couple of weeks. They are back up and playing again. He had four points in his last game. We certainly feel that — especially coming over a few weeks before training camp and getting acclimated here having played for a lot of the year — he should really be able to be a power-play option for Sheldon and Manny Malhotra that they may want to deploy. I am not sure what unit he will be on — that will be up to them — but certainly, he'll be able to provide some punch that way and also be able to defend as well.
We are excited about him. It has certainly been a benefit for us to see him be able to play in these games here for Jokerit. Jokerit has done a great job with him for years. It is nice to be able to work that out with Jari Kurri and their staff.
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Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, né le  à Paris et mort le  à Saint-Étienne (Loire), est un général français de la Révolution et de l'Empire, maréchal d'Empire, comte de l'Empire, grand aigle de la Légion d'honneur, pair de France.

Il participe à la plupart des campagnes de  et son nom est attaché à la dernière bataille de l'Empereur, à Waterloo, car la troupe qu'il commandait n'est pas arrivée à temps pour permettre de renverser le cours de la bataille. Il s'exile ensuite six ans aux Etats-Unis et revient en France où les rois qui se succèdent le rétablissent progressivement dans ses droits.

Famille
Il est le fils aîné du marquis de Grouchy (François Jacques de Grouchy, 1715-1808), et de Gilberte Fréteau (vers 1740-1793).

Par son père, il est issu d'une famille d'ancienne noblesse. Par sa mère, il est le neveu de deux nobles de robe ayant joué un rôle important sous Louis XVI : Emmanuel Fréteau de Saint-Just (1745-1794), qui est son parrain, et le président Dupaty (1746-1788).

Par les femmes, il est lié à des personnes célèbres :

 sa sœur Sophie de Grouchy qui épouse en 1786 le marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) ;
 sa sœur Charlotte Félicité de Grouchy (1768 Condécourt-1844) qui épouse en 1796 Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757-1808) ;

Le 17 mai 1785, il épouse au château de Villette Cécile Félicité Céleste Le Doulcet (1766 ou 1767-1827), qui est la sœur de Louis-Gustave Le Doulcet de Pontécoulant.

Pendant la Monarchie

Grouchy entre à  au corps royal de l'artillerie de Strasbourg en 1780. Il est promu lieutenant en second au régiment d'artillerie de La Fère en 1781. Passé dans la cavalerie en 1782, Grouchy est promu au grade de capitaine dans le régiment royal étranger de Cavalerie, avant d'être nommé en 1786 à la compagnie écossaise de la Garde Royale, avec rang de sous-lieutenant (équivalent de lieutenant-colonel dans l'armée).

Franc-maçon en 1787, il est membre de la loge « L'Héroïsme » de Beauvais.

La Révolution française

Les principes de 1789, qu'il adopte avec enthousiasme, le poussent à donner sa démission de son emploi de lieutenant aux gardes.

Il réintègre l'armée et devient colonel en 1792, du  de chasseurs à cheval, puis du  de dragons du 5 février au 8 juillet 1792, et très rapidement du  de hussards (ancien régiment de Lauzun Hussards) ; la même année, il est envoyé à l'armée du Midi en qualité de maréchal de camp. Passé à l'armée des Alpes, il commande la cavalerie et prend une part glorieuse aux opérations et à la conquête de la Savoie. Sa conduite dans les diverses batailles qui suivent lui vaut le grade de général de division, qui lui est conféré par les représentants en mission. Il défend Nantes contre les Vendéens, mais est suspendu comme noble et exclu de l'armée. Proscrit comme noble par le décret du 15 thermidor an II, Grouchy se retire dans le département de la Manche ; il reste discret et passe la Terreur sans encombre. Après la chute de Robespierre, il reprend du service.

Rappelé en l'an III, il est envoyé à l'armée des côtes de l'Océan comme chef d'état-major, opère sa jonction avec les troupes commandées par Hoche et contribue à la victoire sur les émigrés débarqués à Quiberon. À la suite de cette affaire, il obtient le commandement en chef de l'armée de l'Ouest, et devient, en qualité, de chef d'état-major général, l'adjudant du général Hoche, chargé du commandement des trois armées réunies. Il part pour l'expédition d'Irlande et revient après l'échec de débarquement. En l'an VI, Grouchy passe sous les ordres de Joubert à l'armée d'Italie. Envoyé en Piémont, il contraint à l'abdication le roi Charles-Emmanuel, et reçoit en récompense le commandement du Piémont. Dans toutes les affaires qui précédent la bataille de Novi, Grouchy fait des prodiges de valeur. Il est blessé à Valence et a à la bataille de la Trebbia deux chevaux tués sous lui. À Novi, il commande l'aile gauche et fait prisonniers . Cerné dans les défilés de Paturna, où il reçoit 14 blessures, il est fait prisonnier.

Le Consulat
Échangé après une année de captivité, il voit avec désespoir le 18 brumaire et proteste par écrit contre l'établissement du Consulat. Il reprend néanmoins du service et, affecté dans l'armée des Grisons à l'été 1800, il chasse les Autrichiens de l'Engadine. Chargé du commandement d'une des divisions de la seconde armée de réserve, il la commande en chef pendant une maladie de Macdonald. Il passe ensuite à l'armée du Rhin sous les ordres de Moreau ; il y combat avec sa valeur ordinaire et prend à la bataille de Hohenlinden une part des plus glorieuses. Il continue vers Vienne, arrive à Steyer où est signé l'armistice. Son amitié avec le général Moreau vaut à Grouchy la suspicion de Bonaparte, qui ne lui donne aucun commandement jusqu'à la campagne de 1805. À la paix, il obtient une inspection générale de cavalerie, est chargé de reconduire en Toscane le fils du roi , et de le faire reconnaître comme roi d'Étrurie.

L'Empire

Campagnes d'Autriche, de Prusse et de Pologne

Le 19 brumaire an XII, il est fait membre de la Légion d'honneur et grand officier le 25 prairial suivant. À cette occasion, il doit prêter serment de fidélité à l'Empereur Napoléon , et à ce serment, jamais il n'a manqué. En 1805, le général Grouchy est promu au commandement d'une division de l'armée gallo-batave, à la tête de laquelle il assiste aux batailles de Wertingen, de Guntzbourg et d'Ulm. Après Ulm, il tombe malade et doit quitter sa division pour rentrer en France. Passé en 1806, au commandement d'une division de dragons, il pourchasse les débris de l'armée prussienne après Iéna, contraint Hohenlohe à la capitulation.

Il conduit sa division le 25 octobre, dans Berlin ; le 26, il combat avec elle à Zehdenick, et deux jours après à Prentzlow. Après s'être distingué à Lubeck, au passage de la Vistule, à Thorn, etc., il assiste le 8 février 1807, à la meurtrière bataille d'Eylau. Le matin, il a mené  au combat ; le soir il lui en reste  à peine. Son cheval a été tué sous lui. Grièvement blessé lui-même, il doit la vie au dévouement du jeune Georges Washington de La Fayette, son aide-de-camp. Après cette bataille, il reçoit de l'Empereur la grand'croix de l'Ordre militaire de Maximilien-Joseph de Bavière ; quatre mois plus tard, sa conduite à Friedland lui vaut une mention flatteuse dans le .

En Espagne et en Autriche

Après la paix de Tilsitt, le général Grouchy est décoré du grand aigle de la Légion d'honneur, et en 1808, l'Empereur le crée comte de l'Empire et l'envoie en Espagne. Sous les ordres de Murat, il devient gouverneur de Madrid, et réprime l'insurrection de mai 1808. Le général signale sa présence dans cette capitale par d'importants services ; mais bientôt il sollicite et obtient la permission de rentrer en France. À peine arrivé, il reçoit ordre de rejoindre l'armée en Italie (1809). Après des prodiges de valeur, dans cette campagne, il va rejoindre avec le prince Eugène de Beauharnais la Grande Armée en Allemagne. Il décide de la victoire à la bataille de Raab. Le 6 juillet, il prend une part glorieuse à la bataille de Wagram, où il bat la cavalerie ennemie et enveloppe le corps de l'archiduc Charles. Deux jours après, il défait complètement l'arrière-garde ennemie sous les ordres du prince de Rosenberg. Napoléon le récompense en lui conférant le grade de commandeur de l'ordre de la Couronne de fer et le nomme colonel général des chasseurs à cheval de la Garde. Ce grade place le général Grouchy au nombre des grands officiers de l'Empire.

À la tête de la cavalerie en Russie et en France

En 1812, le général comte Grouchy reçoit le commandement d'un des trois corps de cavalerie de la Grande Armée. Il commande le  de cavalerie lors de la campagne de Russie. Il passe le premier le Dniepr et combat à Krasnoï, à Smolensk et à la Moskowa. C'est à lui que l'on doit le succès de cette dernière bataille, dans laquelle il reçoit un biscaïen dans la poitrine, voit son fils blessé à ses côtés et a un cheval tué sous lui. Lors de la retraite de Moscou, Grouchy combat à Maloyaroslavets sous les ordres de Eugène de Beauharnais, reçoit l'ordre de couvrir l'armée, et a l'honneur de sauver à Viazma une partie de l'artillerie française. Remplacé à l'arrière-garde par Davout, Grouchy aurait reçu le commandement de l'escadron sacré, unité de cavalerie composé d'officiers, qui protège l'Empereur durant la retraite. Rentré en France à la fin de 1812, il se fâche avec Napoléon en 1813, ce dernier voulant le maintenir à la tête de la cavalerie alors que Grouchy souhaite un commandement dans l'infanterie. Il renvoie alors ses ordres de service au ministre et se retire dans ses terres ; mais bientôt les frontières françaises sont envahies, et le général Grouchy, oubliant tout ressentiment personnel, écrit à l'Empereur pour lui redemander du service. C'est encore la cavalerie de la Grande Armée qu'on lui confie : Grouchy arrête l'ennemi dans les plaines de Colmar, joint l'Empereur à Saint-Dizier, après avoir défendu contre les alliés le passage des Vosges, prend une part des plus glorieuses aux combats de Brienne, de La Rothière et de Vauchamps, à Montmirail, et est blessé à Troyes qu'il reprend à l'ennemi. Blessé de nouveau très grièvement à Craonne, il doit quelque temps renoncer au service.

À l'arrivée de Louis XVIII, il se rallie et devient inspecteur général de la cavalerie. La Restauration enlève à Grouchy le grade de colonel général des chasseurs à cheval pour le donner au duc de Berry. On lui accorde toutefois la croix de commandeur de l'ordre de Saint-Louis.

Les Cent-Jours

Mais dès le retour de l'Empereur, ce fidèle parmi les fidèles est l'un des premiers à le rejoindre : en mars 1815, le général Grouchy, demandé aux Tuileries, dit à Napoléon que son dévouement est acquis à la patrie. Chargé du commandement en chef des , ,  et  militaires, il part pour Lyon et trouve à Donzère le duc d'Angoulême qui réclame l'exécution de la convention de La Palud ; Grouchy en écrit à Napoléon, et sur son ordre exprès, fait embarquer le prince à Sète, puis se rend à Marseille. Cet acte lui vaut son bâton de maréchal d'Empire et d'être nommé pair de France.

Le 17 avril, il reçoit le brevet de maréchal d'Empire. Envoyé à l'armée des Alpes comme général en chef, il organise cette armée, met les frontières de la Savoie et du Piémont en état de défense, puis revient à Paris, appelé à la Chambre des pairs par un décret impérial. Bientôt, il est chargé du commandement en chef de la cavalerie à l'armée du Nord. Il suit l'armée pendant la campagne de Belgique.

Il contribue à la victoire de la bataille de Ligny le 16 juin, mais, chargé par Napoléon de poursuivre les Prussiens, il exécute cet ordre sans le remettre en cause au son du canon, malgré les supplications de son adjoint, le futur maréchal Gérard, et manque ainsi la bataille de Waterloo. Dans ces journées du 17 et du 18 juin se déroulent les faits qu'on a beaucoup reprochés au maréchal Grouchy. Détaché le 17 avec un corps de  pour aller à la poursuite des Prussiens que Napoléon croyait retirés vers la Meuse, il aurait laissé échapper le corps de Blücher, fort de , qu'il aurait dû ne pas perdre de vue, et se serait laissé berner par le petit corps prussien de Thielmann, qui lui cache la contre-marche de Blücher se dirigeant sur le canon de Wellington. L'ordre donné par Napoléon de marcher sur Wavre n'est pas pourtant absolu et est subordonné aux manœuvres de l'ennemi.

Las Cases rapporte, dans le Mémorial, qu'à Sainte-Hélène Napoléon aurait dit : « Le maréchal Grouchy avec  et 108 pièces de canon a trouvé le secret qui paraissait introuvable de n'être, dans la journée du 18, ni sur le champ de bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean, ni sur Wavre… La conduite du maréchal Grouchy était aussi imprévisible que si, sur sa route, son armée eût éprouvé un tremblement de terre qui l'eût engloutie. » Selon la légende, à midi, le 18 juin, Grouchy aurait déjeuné à Walhain à la table du notaire Höllert et terminé son repas d'un plat de fraises malgré les appels réitérés de Gérard de marcher au canon.

L'absence des  de Grouchy priva Napoléon de sa droite et changea la victoire en déroute. Le maréchal arriva à Wavre le soir, à peu près à l'heure où Blücher arrivait à Waterloo. À Wavre, il attaqua le corps prussien qui occupait cette ville et le battit. Attaqué à son tour le lendemain par des forces plus considérables, il repousse de telle sorte l'ennemi qu'il se dispose à marcher sur Bruxelles, lorsqu'il reçoit le message de l'Empereur. Le maréchal se replie sur Namur, exécutant sa retraite à travers toute l'armée anglo-prussienne et arrive à Reims, sans avoir subi aucune perte. C'est là qu'il apprend qu'une dernière fois l'Empereur vient d'abdiquer en faveur du roi de Rome. Il fait à ses soldats une proclamation dans laquelle il les engage à défendre, sous les ordres du nouveau chef de l'Empire, les intérêts de la patrie et de la liberté.

L'exil en Amérique

À Soissons, le maréchal reçoit le 28 juin un décret du gouvernement provisoire, en date du 25, par lequel il est appelé au commandement en chef de l'armée du Nord. À son arrivée à Paris, il remet ce commandement au maréchal Davout. Proscrit par l'ordonnance du 24 juillet 1815 de Louis XVIII qui ne lui pardonne pas l'arrestation du duc d'Angoulême, il se réfugie aux États-Unis, à Philadelphie où il demeure cinq années.

Le retour en France

Deux fois le  de guerre de la , chargé de juger le maréchal, s'est déclaré incompétent. Par ordonnance royale du 24 novembre 1819, Louis XVIII permet à Grouchy le retour dans la patrie, en le rétablissant dans ses titres, grades et honneurs, au 19 mars 1815. Rentré en France en 1821, le comte Grouchy, redevenu lieutenant général, est mis à la retraite. Louis-Philippe lui rend ses anciens titres et le nomme de surcroît pair de France. Une ordonnance royale du 19 novembre 1831, lui rend son titre de maréchal de France. Une autre ordonnance du 11 octobre 1832, lui restitue son siège à la Chambre des pairs.

Il meurt le 29 mai 1847 à Saint-Étienne, (Hôtel du Nord où il était descendu) de retour d'un voyage en Italie alors qu'il se rend de Valence à Vichy. Il est inhumé au cimetière du Père-Lachaise (). Son nom est inscrit sur l'arc de triomphe de l'Étoile, côté Nord. La ville de Saint-Étienne fait construire en 1872 à la mémoire du maréchal une caserne de cavalerie qui porte son nom et qui accueillera deux escadrons de cuirassiers. Cette caserne fut démolie après la Seconde Guerre mondiale (la piscine municipale qui se trouve sur son emplacement s'appelle piscine Grouchy).

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Notes et références

Sources et bibliographie

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 Charles Le Brun, Dictionnaire encyclopédique illustré de l'histoire de France, Paris, Édition de Lodi, 1999,

Liens externes

Général de la Révolution française promu en 1792
Maréchal du Premier Empire
Naissance en octobre 1766
Naissance à Paris
Décès en mai 1847
Décès à Saint-Étienne
Décès à 80 ans
Grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur
Marquis français du XVIIIe siècle
Marquis français du XIXe siècle
Comte de l'Empire
Pair de France (Cent-Jours)
Pair de France (Monarchie de Juillet)
Commandeur de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis
Nom gravé sous l'arc de triomphe de l'Étoile
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière du Père-Lachaise (division 57)
Commandeur de l'ordre napoléonien de la Couronne de fer
Colonel général (France)
Campagne de Belgique de 1815
Officier républicain de la guerre de Vendée
Gouverneur militaire de Strasbourg
Grand-croix de l'ordre militaire de Maximilien-Joseph de Bavière
Militaire français des guerres de la Révolution française

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Ma'an Social Incubator introduces 7th Cohort
ABU DHABI, 2nd July, 2022 (WAM) -- The Authority of Social Contribution (Ma'an), today announced the launch of the 7th cohort of the Ma'an Social Incubator (MSI).
The MSI's 7th cohort seeks applications from bright new minds tackling the theme of "Entrepreneurship for Social Good", emphasising Green Cities, Circular Economy, and Sustainable Transport.
The launch of the 7th cohort is in partnership with the Making Prosperity initiative, an impact initiative that runs the Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Maker Challenge – an open-innovation platform where some of the world's most innovative start-ups compete to solve real-world challenges affecting people's lives.
Ma'an is collaborating with key partners such as the Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Maker Challenge and StartAD to attract start-ups and entrepreneurs from around the world to address key challenges in advancing sustainable urbanisation and equitable economic development, in line with the Sustainable Development Goal 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Salama Al Ameemi, Director-General of Ma'an, said, "With growing populations, urbanisation and climate change posing critical sustainability challenges, now is the time to enable new innovators to help secure our future. Abu Dhabi has demonstrated its vital role in creating a prosperous and sustainable future, ranked among the smartest cities in the Middle East and North Africa region in the Smart City Index 2021."
She pointed out that it is crucial to empower the third sector to also generate impactful solutions for a sustainable future, adding, "As a nexus for public, private and third sector-level enterprise and investment, Ma'an is empowering bright entrepreneurial minds to catalyse real change that will have a profound and lasting social impact. MSI's 7th Cohort will lead the way through socially impactful entrepreneurship and sustainable solutions that will bring together the public, private and 'third' sectors to create profoundly beneficial and lasting organic change."
The MSI's 7th Cohort is launched as part of the "Decade of Action Challenge", a 10-year initiative by Making Prosperity and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) that seeks to promote sustainable and inclusive urban development through innovative solutions, partnerships, and transformative ideas. The 7th cohort will present the Challenge Question to the global start-up community to source technological and innovative solutions via submissions on the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Maker Challenge open innovation platform.
Badr Al Olama, Head of the Making Prosperity initiative, stated, "As an open-innovation platform, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Maker Challenge aims to encourage an international community of innovators to develop solutions that can be deployed towards supporting societies that are facing pressing social, cultural, and environmental challenges. We are excited about our partnership with Ma'an and UN-Habitat and look forward to seeing some cutting-edge solutions being deployed in Abu Dhabi and around the world."
The MSI's new cohort will also benefit from Ma'an's partnership with startAD, the start-up accelerator powered by Tamkeen and anchored at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Ramesh Jagannathan, Managing Director of startAD, commented, "With its push for social impact, tech innovation, safe-haven status, business-friendly economy, and sound regulatory environment, Abu Dhabi is becoming the ideal place to grow a global social impact business and we invite start-ups to utilise the opportunity. startAD is proud to partner with Ma'an, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Maker Challenge, and the UN-Habitat to drive the digitisation of the global real-estate industry from Abu Dhabi, building a shared economy and smart, sustainable communities."
Based on the viability of their business models, the teams selected for the 7th cohort will be offered specially tailored support to ensure that their innovations bring substantive positive change to the lives of the Abu Dhabi community and targeted groups. Following the application deadline on 16th September, 2022, the successful teams will benefit from a wide range of learning, mentoring, funding, and networking opportunities that include an exclusive opportunity to exhibit their business proposals at a "Demo Day" in January 2023 during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week.
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