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See also:FREDERICK See also:CHARLES (See also:FRIEDRICH KARL NIKOLAUS), See also:PRINCE (1828-1885) , 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, son of Prince Charles of See also:Prussia and See also:grandson of 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 Frederick 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 III., was See also:born in See also:Berlin on the loth of See also:March 1828. He was educated for the See also:army, which he entered on his tenth birthday as second See also:lieutenant in the 14th See also:Foot See also:Guards. He became first lieutenant in 1844, and in 1846 entered the university of See also:Bonn, where he stayed for two years, being accompanied throughout by See also:Major von See also:Roon, afterwards the famous See also:war See also:minister. In 1848 he became a See also:company See also:commander in his See also:regiment, and soon after-wards served in the See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein War on the See also:staff of Marshal von See also:Wrangel, being See also:present at the See also:battle of Schleswig (See also:April 23, 1848). Later in 1848 he became Riltmeister in the Garde du See also:Corps See also:cavalry regiment, and in 1849 major in the Guard Hussars. In this See also:year the prince took See also:part in the See also:campaign against the See also:Baden insurgents, and was wounded at the See also:action of Wiesenthal while leading a desperate See also:charge against entrenched See also:infantry. After this experience the See also:wild courage of his youth gave See also:place to the unshakable See also:resolution which afterwards characterized the prince's generalship. In 1852 he became See also:colonel, and in 1854 major-general and commander of a cavalry See also:brigade. In this capacity he was brought closely in See also:touch with General von Reyher, the See also:chief of the general staff, and with See also:Moltke. He married, in the same year, Princess See also:Marie See also:Anne of See also:Anhalt. In 18J7 he became commander of the 1st Guard Infantry See also:division, but very shortly afterwards, on See also:account of disputes concerned with the training methods then in force, he resigned the See also:appointment.
In 1858 he visited See also:France, where he minutely investigated the See also:state of the See also:French army, but it was not See also:long before he was recalled, for in 1859, in consequence of the Franco-See also:Austrian War, Prussia mobilized her forces, and Frederick Charles was made a divisional commander in the II. army corps. In this See also:post he was given the See also:liberty of action which had previously been denied to him.
End of Article: FREDERICK CHARLES (FRIEDRICH KARL NIKOLAUS), PRINCE (1828-1885)
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