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See also:HEATH, 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 (1737—1814) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in See also:Roxbury, See also:Massachusetts, on the 2nd of See also:March 1737 (old See also:style). He was brought up as a See also:farmer and had a See also:passion for military exercises. In 1765 he entered the See also:Ancient and See also:Honour-able See also:Artillery See also:Company of See also:Boston, of which he became See also:commander in 1770. In the same See also:year he wrote to the Boston See also:Gazette letters signed " A Military Countryman, " urging the See also:necessity of military training. He was a member of the Massachusetts See also:General See also:Court from 1770 to 1774, of the provincial See also:committee of safety, and in 1774—1775 of the provincial See also:congress. He was commissioned a provincial brig.-general in See also:December 1774, directed the pursuit of the See also:British from See also:Concord (See also:April 19, 1775), was promoted to be provincial See also:major-general on the loth of See also:June 1773, and two days later was commissioned See also:fourth brig.-general in the See also:Continental See also:Army. He became major-general on the 9th of See also:August 1776, and was in active service around New See also:York until See also:early the next year. In See also:January 1777 he attempted to take Fort See also:Independence, near Spuyten Duyvil, then garrisoned by about 2000 Hessians, but at the first sally of the See also:garrison his troops became panic-stricken and a few days later he withdrew. See also:Washington reprimanded him and never again entrusted to him any important operation 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. Throughout the See also:war, however, Heath was very efficient in See also:muster service and in the See also:barracks. From March 1777 to See also:October 1778 he was in command of the Eastern See also:Department with headquarters at Boston, and had See also:charge (Nov. 1777—Oct. 1778) of the prisoners of war from See also:Burgoyne's army held at See also:Cambridge, Massachusetts. In May 1779 he was appointed a See also:commissioner of the See also:Board of War. He was placed in command of the troops on the E. See also:side of the See also:Hudson in June 1779, and of other troops and posts on the Hudson in See also:November of the same year. In See also:July 1780 he met the See also:French See also:allies under See also:Rochambeau on their arrival in Rhode See also:Island; in October of the same year he succeeded See also:Arnold in command of See also:West Point and its dependencies; and in August 1781, when Washington went See also:south to meet See also:Cornwallis, Heath was See also:left in command of the Army of the Hudson to See also:watch See also:Clinton. After the war he retired to his See also:farm at Roxbury, was a member of the See also:state See also:House of Representatives in 1788, of the Massachusetts See also:convention which ratified the Federal Constitution in the same year, and of the See also:governor's See also:council in 1789—1790, was a state senator (1791—1793), and in 1806 was elected See also:lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts but declined to serve. He died at Roxbury on the 24th of January 1814, the last of the major-generals of the War of American Independence.
See See also:Memoirs of Major-General Heath, containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes, Battles and other Military Events during the American War. written by Himself (Boston, 1798; frequently reprinted, perhaps the best edition being that published in New York in 1901 by William Abbatt), particularly valuable for the descriptions of See also:Lexington and Bunker 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, of the fighting around New York, of the controversies with Burgoyne and his See also:officers during their stay in Boston, and of relations with Rochambeau; and his See also:correspondence, The Heath Papers, vols. iv.-v., seventh See also:series, Massachusetts See also:Historical Society Collections (Boston, 1904-1905).
End of Article: HEATH, WILLIAM (1737—1814)
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