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See also:BLUMENTHAL, LEONHARD, See also:COUNT VON (1810–1900) , Prussian 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 See also:marshal, son of See also:Captain See also:Ludwig von Blumenthal (killed in 1813 at the See also:battle of See also:Dennewitz), was See also:born at Schwedton-See also:Oder on the 3oth of See also:July 181o. Educated at the military See also:schools of See also:Culm and See also:Berlin, he entered the See also:Guards as 2nd lieu-See also:tenant in 1827. After serving in the See also:Rhine provinces, he joined the topographical See also:division of the See also:general See also:staff in 1846. As See also:lieutenant of the 31st See also:foot he took See also:part in 1848 in the suppression of the Berlin riots, and in 1849 was promoted captain on the general staff. The same See also:year he served on the staff of General von Bonin in the See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein See also:campaign, and so distinguished himself, particularly at See also:Fredericia, that he was appointed See also:chief of the staff of the Schleswig-Holstein See also:army. In 185o he was general staff officer of the See also:mobile division under von Tietzen in See also:Hesse-See also:Cassel. He was sent on a See also:mission to See also:England in that year (4th class of Red See also:Eagle), and on several subsequent occasions. Having attained the See also:rank of lieutenant-See also:colonel, he was appointed See also:personal See also:adjutant to See also:Prince See also:Frederick See also:Charles in 1859. In 186o he became colonel of the 31st, and later of the 71st, See also:regiment. He was chief of the staff of the III. army See also:corps when,on the outbreak of the Danish See also:War of 1864, he was nominated chief of the general staff of the army against See also:Denmark, and displayed so much ability, particularly at See also:Duppel and the passage to See also:Alsen See also:island, that he was promoted See also:major-general and given the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order pour le merite. In the war of 1866 Blumenthal occupied the See also:post of chief of the general staff to the See also:crown prince of See also:Prussia, commanding the 2nd army. It was upon this army that the brunt of the fighting See also:fell, and at See also:Koniggratz it decided the fortunes of the See also:day.
Blumenthal's own part in these battles and in the campaign generally was most conspicuous. On the field of Koniggratz the crown prince said to his chief of staff, " I know to whom I owe the conduct of my army," and Blumenthal soon received promotion to lieutenant-general and the See also:oak-See also:leaf of the order pour le merite. He was also made a See also:knight of the See also:Hohenzollern Order. From 1866 to 187o he commanded the 14th division at See also:Dusseldorf. In the Franco-See also:German War of 1870-71 he was chief of staff of the 3rd army under the crown prince. Blumenthal's soldierly qualities and See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent were never more conspicuous than in the See also:critical days preceding the battle of See also:Sedan, and his services in the war have been considered as scarcely less valuable and important than those of See also:Moltke himself. In 1871 Blumenthal represented See also:Germany at the See also:British manceuvres at Chobham, and was given the command of the IV. army corps at See also:Magdeburg. In 1873 he became a general of See also:infantry, and ten years later he was made a count. In 1888 he was made a general field marshal, after which he was in command of the 4th and 3rd army inspections. He retired in 1896, and died at Quellendorf near Kothen on the 21st of See also:December 1900.
Blumenthal's See also:diary of 1866 and 1870–1871 has been edited by his son, Count Albrecht von Blumenthal (Tagebuch See also:des G.F.M. von Blumenthal), 19o2; an See also:English See also:translation (See also:Journals of Count von Blumenthal) was published in 1903.
End of Article: BLUMENTHAL, LEONHARD, COUNT VON (1810–1900)
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