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See also:CHARLES V . or IV. (1643-1690), See also:duke of See also:Lorraine, See also:nephew of Duke Charles IV., was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:April 1643, and in 1664 received a colonelcy in the See also:emperor's See also:army. In the same See also:year he fought with distinction at the See also:battle of St Gotthard, in which he captured a See also:standard from the See also:Turks. He was a See also:candidate for the elective See also:crown of See also:Poland in 1668. In 167o the emperor made him See also:general of See also:horse, and during the following years he was constantly on active service, first against the Turksand subsequently against the See also:French. At Seneff (1674) he was wounded. In the same year he was again a candidate for the See also:Polish crown, but was unsuccessful, See also:John Sobieski, who was to be associated with him in his greatest feat of arms, being elected. In 1675, on the See also:death of Charles IV., he rode with a See also:cavalry See also:corps into the duchy of Lorraine, then occupied by the French, and secured the See also:adhesion of the Lorraine troops to himself; a little after this he succeeded Mon tecucculi as general of the imperial army on the See also:Rhine, and was made 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 See also:marshal. The See also:chief success of his See also:campaign of 1676 was the See also:capture of Philipsburg, after a See also:long and arduous See also:siege. The See also:war continued without decisive result for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and the See also:fate of the duchy, which was still occupied by the French, was the subject of endless See also:diplomacy. At the general See also:peace Charles had to accept the hard conditions imposed by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV., and he never entered into effective See also:possession of his See also:sovereignty In 1678 he married the widowed See also:queen of Poland, Eleonora Maria of See also:Austria, and for nearly five years they lived quietly at See also:Innsbruck. The See also:Turkish invasion of 1683, the last See also:great effort of the Turks to impose their will on See also:Europe, called Charles into the field again. At the See also:head of a weak imperial army the duke offered the best resistance he could to the advance of the Turks on See also:Vienna. But he had to fall back, contesting every position, and the Turks finally invested Vienna (See also:July 13th, 1683). At this See also:critical moment other See also:powers came to the assistance of Austria, reinforcements poured into Charles's See also:camp, and John Sobieski, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Poland, brought 27,000 Poles. Sobieski and Charles had now over 8o,000 men, Poles, Austrians and Germans, and on the See also:morning of the 12th of See also:September they moved forward to the attack. By nightfall the Turks were in See also:complete disorder, Vienna was relieved, and the danger was at an end. Soon the victors took the offensive and reconquered See also:part of the See also:kingdom of See also:Hungary. The Germans and Poles went See also:home in the See also:winter, but Charles continued his offensive with the imperialists alone. Ofen (Buda) resisted his efforts in 1684, but in the campaign of 1685 Neuhausel was taken by See also:storm, and in 1686 Charles, now reinforced by See also:German auxiliaries, resumed the siege of Ofen. All attempts to. relieve the See also:place were repulsed, and Ofen was stormed on the and of September. In the following campaign the Austrians won a decisive victory on the famous battle-ground of See also:Mohacs (See also:August 18th, 1687). In 1689 Charles took the field on the Rhine against the forces of Louis XIV., the enemy of his See also:house. See also:Mainz and See also:Bonn were taken in the first campaign, but Charles in travelling from Vienna to the front died suddenly at Weis on the 18th of April 169o.
His eldest son, See also:Leopold See also:Joseph (1679-1729), at the peace of See also:Ryswick in 1697 obtained the duchy, of which his See also:father had been dispossessed by See also:France, and was the father of See also:Francis See also:Stephen, duke of Lorraine, who became the See also:husband of Maria See also:Theresa (q.v.), and of Charles (Karl See also:Alexander), a distinguished See also:Austrian See also:commander in the See also:wars with See also:Frederick the Great. The duchy was ceded by Francis Stephen to See also:Stanislaus Leczynski, the dethroned king of Poland, in 1736, Francis receiving in-See also:stead the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Tuscany.
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