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FERDINAND , See also:duke of See also:Brunswick (1721-1792), Prussian See also:general 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 the See also:fourth son of Ferdinand See also:Albert, duke of Brunswick, and was See also:born at Wolfenbiittel on the 12th of See also:January 1721. He was carefully educated with a view to a military career, and in his twentieth See also:year he was made See also:chief of a newly-raised Brunswick See also:regiment in the Prussian service. He was See also:present in the battles of Mollwitz and Chotusitz. In See also:sue-cession to See also:Margrave Wilhelm of See also:Brandenburg, killed at See also:Prague (1744), Ferdinand received the command of See also:Frederick the See also:Great's Leibgarde See also:battalion, and at Sohr (1745) he distinguished himself so greatly at the See also:head of his See also:brigade that Frederick wrote of him, " le See also:Prince Ferdinand s'est surpassed' The height which he captured was defended by his See also:brother See also:Ludwig as an officer of the See also:Austrian service, and another brother of Duke Ferdinand was killed by his See also:side in the See also:charge. During the ten years' See also:peace he was in the closest See also:touch with the military See also:work of Frederick the Great, who supervised the instruction of the guard battalion, and sought to make it a See also:model of the whole Prussian See also:army. Ferdinand was, moreover, one of the most intimate See also:friends of the 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, and thus he was peculiarly fitted for the tasks which afterwards See also:fell to his See also:lot. In this 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 became svcessively See also:major-general and See also:lieutenant-general.
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