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See also:FINCK, See also:FRIEDRICH See also:AUGUST VON (1718-1766) , Prussian soldier, was See also:born at See also:Strelitz in 1718. He first saw active service in 1934 on the See also:Rhine, as a member of the See also:suite of See also:Duke Anton See also:Ulrich of See also:Brunswick-See also:Wolfenbuttel. Soon after this he transferred to the See also:Austrian service, and thence went to See also:Russia, where he served until the fall of his See also:patron See also:Marshal Mtinnich put an end to his prospects of See also:advancement. In 1742 he went to See also:Berlin, and See also:Frederick the See also:Great made him his aide-de-See also:camp, with the See also:rank of See also:major. See also:Good service brought him rapid promotion in the Seven Years' See also:War. After the See also:battle of See also:Kolin (See also:June 18th, 1757) he was made See also:colonel, and at the end of 1757 major-See also:general. At the beginning of 1759 Finck became See also:lieutenant-general, and in this rank commanded a See also:corps at the disastrous battle of See also:Kunersdorf, where he did good service both on the 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 of battle and (Frederick having in despair handed over to him the command) in the rallying of the beaten Prussians. Later in the See also:year he fought in See also:concert with General Wunsch a widespread combat, called the See also:action of Korbitz (See also:Sept. 21st) in which the Austrians and the contingents of the See also:minor states of the See also:Empire were sharply defeated. For this action Frederick gave Finck the See also:Black See also:Eagle (Seyfarth, Beilagen, ii. 621-630). But the subsequent See also:catastrophe of Maxen (see SEVEN YEARS' WAR) abruptly put an end to Finck's active career. Dangerously exposed, and with inadequate forces, Finck received 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's See also:positive 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 to See also:march upon Maxen (a See also:village in the See also:Pirna region of See also:Saxony). Unfortunately for himself the general dared not disobey his See also:master, and, cut off by greatly See also:superior See also:numbers, was forced to surrender with some 11,000 men (21st Nov. 1759). After the See also:peace, Frederick sent him before a See also:court-See also:martial, which sentenced him to be cashiered and to suffer a See also:term of imprisonment in a fortress. At the expiry of this term Finck entered the Danish service as general of See also:infantry. He died at See also:Copenhagen in 1766.
He See also:left a See also:work called Gedanken fiber militdrische Gegenstande (Berlin, 1788). See Denkwiirdigkeiten der militdrischen Gesellschaft, vol. ii. (Berlin, 1802-1805), and the See also:report of the Finck court-martial in Zeitschrift See also:file Kunst, Wissenschaft and Geschichte See also:des Krieges, pt. 81 (Berlin, 1851). There is a See also:life of Finck in MS. in the library of the Great General See also:Staff.
End of Article: FINCK, FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON (1718-1766)
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