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CRIMEAN See also:WAR) in co-operation with a strong See also:French See also:army under See also:Marshal St See also:Arnaud and afterwards, up to May 1855, under Marshal See also:Canrobert. Here the See also:advantage of his training under the. See also:duke of See also:Wellington was seen in the soundness of his generalship, and his See also:diplomatic experience stood him in goodstead in dealing with the generals and admirals, See also:British, French and See also:Turkish, who were associated with him. But the trying See also:winter See also:campaign in the See also:Crimea also brought into prominence defects perhaps traceable to his See also:long connexion with the formalities and See also:uniform regulations of military offices in See also:peace 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. For the hardships and sufferings of the See also:English soldiers in the terrible Crimean winter before See also:Sevastopol, owing to failure in the See also:commissariat, both as regards See also:food and clothing, See also:Lord See also:Raglan and his See also:staff were at the time severely censured by the See also:press and the See also:government; but, while Lord Raglan was possibly to blame in representing matters in a too sanguine See also:light, it afterwards appeared that the See also:chief neglect rested with the See also:home authorities. But this hopefulness was a shining military quality in the midst of the despondency that settled upon the allied generals after their first failures, and at See also:Balaklava and Inkermann he displayed the promptness and See also:resolution of his youth. He 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 marshal after Inkermann. During the trying winter of 1854—55, the suffering he was compelled to See also:witness, the censures, in See also:great See also:part unjust, which he had to endure and all the manifold anxieties of the See also:siege seriously undermined his See also:health, and although he found a friend and ardent supporter in his new French colleague, See also:General See also:Pelissier (q.v.), disappointment at the failure of the See also:assault of the 18th of See also:June 1855 finally See also:broke his spirit, and very shortly afterwards, on the 28th of June 1855, he died of See also:dysentery. His See also:body was brought home and interred at See also:Badminton.
His See also:elder son having been killed at the See also:battle of See also:Ferozeshah (1845), the See also:title descended to his younger son See also:Richard See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Fitzroy See also:Somerset, 2nd See also:Baron ,Raglan (1817—1884); and subsequently to the latter's son, See also:George Fitzroy Henry Somerset, 3rd baron (b. 1857), under-secretary for war 1900-2, See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of the Isle of See also:Man (1902) and a prominent See also:militia officer.
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