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IRONSIDES , a See also:nickname given to one of See also:great bravery, strength or endurance, particularly as exhibited in a soldier. In See also:English See also:history Ironside or Ironsides first appears as the name of See also:Edmund II., 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 the English. In the Great See also:Rebellion it was first given by See also:Prince See also:Rupert to See also:Cromwell, after the See also:battle of See also:Marston See also:Moor in 1644 (see S. R. See also:Gardiner's History of the Great See also:Civil See also:War, 1893, vol. ii. p. 1, and Mercurius civicus, See also:September 19-26, 1644, quoted there). From Cromwell it was transferred to the troopers of his See also:cavalry, those "See also:God-fearing men," raised and trained by him in an See also:iron discipline, who were the See also:main See also:instrument of the See also:parliamentary victories 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. This (see S. R. Gardiner, op. cit. iv. 179) was first given at the raising of the See also:siege of See also:Pontefract 1648, but did not become See also:general till later.
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