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See also:HINDERSIN, GUSTAV EDUARD VON (1804-1872) , Prussian See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Wernigerode near See also:Halberstadt on the 18th of See also:July 1804. He was the son of a See also:priest and received a See also:good See also:education. His earlier See also:life was spent in See also:great poverty, and the struggle for existence See also:developed in him an See also:iron strength of See also:character. Entering the Prussian See also:artillery in 1820 he became an officer in 1825. From 1830 to 1837 he attended the Allgemeine Kriegsakademie at See also:Berlin, and in 1841, while still a subaltern, he was posted to the great General See also:Staff, in which he afterwards directed the topographical See also:section. In 1849 he served with the See also:rank of See also:major on the staff of General Peucker, who commanded a federal See also:corps in the suppression of the See also:Baden insurrection. He See also:fell into the hands of the insurgents at the See also:action of Ladenburg, but was released just before the fall of Rastadt. In the Danish See also:war of 1864 Hindersin, now See also:lieutenant-general, directed the artillery operations against the lines of Diippel, and for his services was ennobled by 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 of See also:Prussia. Soon afterwards he became inspector-general of artillery. His experience at See also:Duppel had convinced him that the days of the smooth-See also:bore See also:gun were past, and he now devoted himself with unremitting zeal to the rearmament and reorganization of the Prussian artillery. The available funds were small, and grudginglyvoted by the See also:parliament. There was a strong feeling moreover that the smooth-bore was still tactically See also:superior to its See also:rival (see ARTILLERY, § 19). There was no See also:practical training for war in either 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 or the fortress artillery See also:units. The latter had made scarcely any progress since the days of See also:Frederick the Great, and before von Hindersin's See also:appointment had practised with the same guns in the same See also:bastion See also:year after year. All this was altered, the whole " See also:foot-artillery " was reorganized, manoeuvres were instituted, and the smooth-bores were, except for ditch See also:defence, eliminated from the armament of the Prussian fortresses. But far more important was his See also:work in connexion with the field and See also:horse batteries. In 1864 only one See also:battery in four had rifled guns, but by the unrelenting See also:energy of von Hindersin the outbreak of war with See also:Austria one and a See also:half years later found the Prussians with ten in every sixteen batteries armed with the new weapon. But the battles of 1866 showed, besides the superiority of the rifled gun, a very marked See also:absence of See also:tactical efficiency in the Prussian artillery, which was almost always outmatched by that of the enemy. Von Hindersin had pleaded, in See also:season and out of season, for the See also:establishment of a school of gunnery; and in spite of want of funds, such a school had already been established. After 1866, however, more support was obtained, and the improvement in the Prussian field artillery between 1866 and 1870 was extraordinary, even though there had not been See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for the work of the school', to See also:leaven the whole See also:arm. Indeed, the See also:German artillery played by far the most important See also:part in the victories of the Franco-German war. Von Hindersin accompanied the king's headquarters as See also:chief of artillery, as he had done in 1866, and was See also:present at See also:Gravelotte, See also:Sedan and the See also:siege of See also:Paris. But his work, which was now accomplished, had worn out his See also:physical See also:powers, and he died on the 23rd of See also:January 1872 at Berlin.
See Bartholomaus, Der General der Infanterie von Hindersin (Berlin, 1895), and See also:Prince Kraft zu See also:Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Letters on Artillery (translated by Major Walford, R.A.), No.. xi.
End of Article: HINDERSIN, GUSTAV EDUARD VON (1804-1872)
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