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See also:BENNIGSEN, LEVIN See also:AUGUST, See also:COUNT VON (1745–1826) , See also:Russian See also:general, of Hanoverian See also:family, was See also:born on the loth of See also:February 1745 in See also:Brunswick, and served successively as a See also:page at the Hanoverian See also:court and as an officer of See also:foot-See also:guards. He retired from the Hanoverian See also:army in 1764, and in 1773 entered the Russian service as a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field officer. He fought against the See also:Turks in 1774 and in 1778, becoming See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel in the latter See also:year. In 1787 his conduct at the storming of Oczakov won him promotion to the See also:rank of brigadier, and he distinguished himself repeatedly in the See also:Polish See also:War of 1793–1794 and in the See also:Persian War of 1796. The See also:part played by Bennigsen in the actual assassination of the See also:tsar See also:Paul I. is not fully known, but he took a most active See also:share in the formation and conduct of the See also:conspiracy. See also:Alexander I. made him See also:governor-general of Lithuania in 18oi, and in 1802 a general of See also:cavalry. In 1806 he was in command of one of the Russian armies operating against See also:Napoleon, when he fought the See also:battle of See also:Pultusk and met the See also:emperor in See also:person in the sanguinary battle of See also:Eylau (8th of February 1807). Here he could claim to have inflicted the first See also:reverse suffered by Napoleon, but six months later Bennigsen met with the crushing defeat of See also:Friedland (14th of See also:June 1807) the See also:direct consequence of which was the treaty of See also:Tilsit. Bennigsen now retired for some years, but in the See also:campaign of 1812 he reappeared in the army in various responsible positions. He was See also:present at See also:Borodino, and defeated See also:Murat in the engagement of Tarutino, but on See also:account of a See also:quarrel with See also:Marshal See also:Kutusov, the Russian See also:commander-in-See also:chief, he was compelled to retire from active military employment. After the See also:death of Kutusov he was recalled and placed at the See also:head of an army. Bennigsen led one of the columns which made the decisive attack on the last See also:day of the battle of See also:Leipzig (16th-19th of
See also:October 1813). On the same evening he was made a count by the emperor Alexander I., and he afterwards commanded the forces which operated against Marshal See also:Davout in See also:North See also:Germany. After the general See also:peace he held a command from 1815 to 1818, when he retired from active service and settled on his Hanoverian See also:estate of Banteln near See also:Hildesheim. Count Bennigsen died on the 3rd of See also:December 1826. His son, ALEXANDER LEVIN, count von Bennigsen( 8o9–1893) ,was a distinguishedHanoverian statesman.
End of Article: BENNIGSEN, LEVIN AUGUST, COUNT VON (1745–1826)
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