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See also:FORBES, See also:ARCHIBALD (1838-1900) , See also:British See also:war correspondent, the son of a Presbyterian See also:minister in Morayshire, was See also:born on the 17th of See also:April 1838, and was educated at See also:Aberdeen University. Entering the Royal Dragoons as a private, he gained, while in the service, considerable See also:practical experience of military See also:life and affairs. Being invalided from his See also:regiment, he settled in See also:London, and became a journalist. When the Franco-See also:German War See also:broke out in 187o, Forbes was sent to the front as war correspondent td the See also:Morning Advertiser, and in this capacity he gained valuable See also:information as to the plans of the Parisians for withstanding a See also:siege. Transferring his services to the Daily See also:News, his brilliant feats in the transmission of intelligence See also:drew See also:world-wide . See also:attention to his despatches. He was with the German See also:army from the beginning of the See also:campaign, and he after-wards witnessed the rise and fall of the See also:Commune. Forbes afterwards proceeded to See also:Spain, where he chronicled the outbreak of the second Carlist War; but his See also:work here was interrupted by a visit to See also:India, where he spent eight months upon a See also:mission of investigation into the See also:Bengal See also:famine of 1874. Then he returned to Spain, and followed at various times the Carlist, the Republican and the Alfonsist forces. As representative of the Daily News, he accompanied the See also:prince of See also:Wales in his tour through India in 1875-1876. Forbes went through the Servian campaign of 1876, and was See also:present at all the important engagements. In the Russo-See also:Turkish campaign of 1877 he achieved striking journalistic successes at See also:great See also:personal See also:risk. Attached to the See also:Russian army, he witnessed most of the See also:principal operations, and remained continuously in 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 until attacked by See also:fever. His letters, together with those of his colleagues, MacGahan and See also:Millet, were republished by the Daily News. On recovering from his fever, Forbes proceeded to See also:Cyprus, in 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:witness the British occupation. The same See also:year (1878) he went to India, and in the See also:winter accompanied the Khyber Pass force to See also:Jalalabad He was present at the taking of See also:Ali Musjid, and marched with' several expeditions against the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill tribes. See also:Burma was Forbes's next field of See also:adventure, and at See also:Mandalay, the See also:capital, he had several interesting interviews with 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 See also:Thibaw. He See also:left Burma
hurriedly for See also:South See also:Africa, where, in consequence of the disaster of Isandlwana, a British. force was See also:collecting for the invasion of See also:Zululand. He was present at the victory of See also:Ulundi, and his famous ride of 120 M. in fifteen See also:hours, by which he was enabled to convey the first news of the See also:battle to See also:England, remains one of the finest achievements in journalistic enterprise. Forbes subsequently delivered many lectures on his war experiences to large audiences. His closing years were spent in See also:literary work. He had some years before published a military novel entitled See also:Drawn from Life, and a See also:volume on his experiences of the war between See also:France and See also:Germany. These were now followed by numerous publications, including Glimpses through the See also:Cannon See also:Smoke (188o); Souvenirs of some Continents (1885); See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William I. of Germany: a See also:Biography (1888); See also:Havelock, in the " See also:English Men of See also:Action " See also:Series (189o); See also:Barracks, Bivouacs, and Battles (1891); The Afghan See also:Wars, 1839-80 (1892); Czar and See also:Sultan (1895); Memories and Studies of War and See also:Peace (1895), in many respects autobiographic; and See also:Colin See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell, See also:Lord See also:Clyde (1896). He died on the 3oth of See also:March 1900.
End of Article: FORBES, ARCHIBALD (1838-1900)
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