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HERWARTH VON BITTENFELD, KARL See also:EBERHARD (1796-'884) , 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, came of an aristocratic See also:family which had supplied many distinguished See also:officers to the Prussian See also:army. He entered the Guard.See also:infantry in '811, and served through the See also:War of Liberation (1813-15), distinguishing himself at Liitzen and See also:Paris. During the years of See also:peace he See also:rose slowly to high command. In the See also:Berlin revolution of '848 he was on See also:duty at the royal See also:palace as See also:colonel of the 1st See also:Guards. See also:Major-general in 1852, and See also:lieutenant-general in '856, he received the grade of general of infantry and the command of the VIIth (Westphalian) Army See also:Corps in '86o. In the Danish War of '864 he succeeded to the command of the Prussians when See also:Prince See also:Frederick See also:Charles became See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the See also:Allies, and it was under his leadership that the Prussians forced the passage into See also:Alsen on the 29th of See also:June. In the war of 1866 Herwarth commanded the " Army of the See also:Elbe " which overran See also:Saxony and invaded Bohemia by the valley of the Elbe and her. His troops won the actions of Huhnerwasser and Miinchengratz, and at See also:Koniggratz formed the right wing of the Prussian army. Herwarth himself directed the See also:battle against the See also:Austrian See also:left flank. In '87o he was not employed in the field, but was in See also:charge of the scarcely less important business of organizingand forwarding all the reserves and material required for the armies in See also:France. In 187' his See also:great services were recognized by promotion to the See also:rank of field-marshal. The See also:rest of his See also:life was spent in retirement at See also:Bonn, where he died in '884. Since
1889 the 13th (1st Westphalian) Infantry has See also:borne his name. See G. F. M. Herwarth von Bittenfeld (See also:Munster, 1896).
End of Article: HERWARTH VON BITTENFELD, KARL EBERHARD (1796-'884)
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