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See also:DAMJANICH, JANOS (1804–1849) , Hungarian soldier, was See also:born at Stasa in the See also:Banat. He entered the See also:army as an officer in the 61st See also:regiment of See also:foot, and on the outbreak of the Hungarian See also:war of See also:independence was promoted to be a See also:major in the third Honved regiment at See also:Szeged. Although an orthodox Serb, he was from the first a devoted adherent of the Magyar liberals. He won his colonelcy by his ability and valour at the battles of Alibunar and Lagerdorf in 1848. At the beginning of 1849 he was appointed See also:commander of the 3rd army See also:corps in the See also:middle See also:Theiss, and quickly gained the reputation of being the bravest See also:man in the Magyar army, winning engagement after engagement by sheer dash and daring. At the beginning of See also:March 1849 he annihilated a See also:brigade at Szoln6k, perhaps his greatest exploit. He was elected See also:deputy for Szolnok to the Hungarian See also:diet, but declined the See also:honour. Damjanich played a leading See also:part in the See also:general advance upon the Hungarian See also:capital under See also:Gorgei. He was See also:present at the engagements of See also:Hort and Hatvan, converted the doubtful fight of Tapib-Bicsk into a victory, and fought with irresistible elan at the bloody See also:battle of Isaszeg. At the ensuing See also:review at See also:Godollo, See also:Kossuth expressed the sentiments of the whole nation when he doffed his See also:hat as Damjanich's battalions passed by. Always a fiery democrat, Damjanich uncompromisingly supported the extremist views of Kossuth, and was appointed commander of one of the three divisions which, under Gorgei, entered See also:Vacz in See also:April 1849. His fame reached its See also:culmination when, on the 19th of April, he won the battle of Nagysarlo, which led to the See also:relief of the hardly-pressed fortress of See also:Komarom. At this juncture Damjanich See also:broke his See also:leg, an See also:accident which prevented him from taking part in 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 operations at the most See also:critical See also:period of the war, when the See also:Magyars had to abandon the capital for the second 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. He recovered sufficiently, however, to accept the See also:post of commandant of the fortress of See also:Arad. After the Vilagos See also:catastrophe, Damjanich, on being summoned to surrender, declared he would give up the fortress to a single See also:company of See also:Cossacks, but would defend it to the last drop of his See also:blood against the whole See also:Austrian army. He accordingly surrendered to the See also:Russian general Demitrius Buturlin (1790-1849), by whom he was handed over to the Austrians, who shot him in the See also:market-See also:place of Arad a few days later.
See Odon Hamvay, See also:Life of Janos Damjanich (Hung.), (See also:Budapest,
1904). (R. N.
End of Article: DAMJANICH, JANOS (1804–1849)
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