Hoche, La, French general, born near Versailles; rose from the ranks to the command of the army of the Moselle; drove the Austrians out of Alsace, and suppressed the rising in and pacified La Vendée; while yet a sergeant bore a hand conspicuously at the overturn of the Bastille (17681797).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hoccleve * Hochkirch