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See also:DIEBITSCH, HANS KARL See also:FRIEDRICH ANTON , See also:count von Diebitsch and Narden, called by the Russians See also:Ivan Ivanovich, Count Diebich-Zabalkansky (1785-1831), See also:Russian 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, was See also:born in See also:Silesia on the 13th of May 1785. He was educated at the See also:Berlin See also:cadet school, but by the See also:desire of his See also:father, a Prussian officer who had passed into the service of See also:Russia, he also did the same in 1801. He served in the See also:campaign of 1805, and was wounded at See also:Austerlitz, fought at See also:Eylau and See also:Friedland, and after Friedland was promoted See also:captain. During the next five years of See also:peace he devoted himself to the study of military See also:science, engaging once more in active service in the See also:War of 1812. He distinguished himself very greatly in See also:Wittgenstein's campaign, and in particular at Polotzk (See also:October 18 and 19), after which combat he was raised to the See also:rank of See also:major-See also:general. In the latter See also:part of the campaign he served against the Prussian contingent of General Yorck (von Wartenburg), with whom, through See also:Clausewitz, he negotiated the celebrated See also:convention of Tauroggen, serving thereafter with Yorck in the See also:early part of the War of Liberation. After the See also:battle of Liftzen he served in Silesia and took part in negotiating the See also:secret treaty of See also:Reichenbach. Having distinguished himself at the battles of See also:Dresden and See also:Leipzig he was promoted See also:lieutenant-general. At the crisis of the campaign of 1814 he strongly urged the See also:march of the See also:allies on See also:Paris; and after their entry the See also:emperor See also:Alexander conferred on him 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 of St Alexander Nevsky. In 1815 he attended the See also:congress of See also:Vienna, and was afterwards made See also:adjutant-general to the emperor, with whom, as also with his successor See also:Nicholas, he had See also:great See also:influence. By Nicholas he was created See also:baron, and later count. In 182o he had become See also:chief of the general See also:staff, and in 1825 he assisted in suppressing the St See also:Petersburg emeute. His greatest exploits were in the Russo-See also:Turkish War of 1828-1829, which, after a See also:period of doubtful contest, was decided by Diebitsch's brilliant campaign of See also:Adrianople; this won him the rank of field-marshal and the honorary See also:title of Zabalkanski to commemorate his See also:crossing of the Balkans. In 183o he was appointed to command the great See also:army destined to suppress the insurrection in See also:Poland. He won the terrible battle of Grechow on the 25th of See also:February, and was again victorious at Ostrolenka on the 26th of May, but soon afterwards he died of See also:cholera (or by his own See also:hand) at Klecksewo near See also:Pultusk, on the loth of See also:June 1831.
See See also:Belmont (Schumberg), See also:Graf Diebitsch (Dresden, 1830) ; Sturmer, Der See also:Tod See also:des Grafen Diebitsch (Berlin, 1832) ; Bantych-Kamenski, See also:Biographies of Russian Field-Marshals (in Russian, St Petersburg, 1841).
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