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See also:KHEVENHULLER, See also:LUDWIG ANDREAS (1683-1744) , See also:Austrian 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, See also:Count of Aschelberg-Frankenburg, came of a See also:noble See also:family, which, originally Franconian, settled in See also:Carinthia in the 11th See also:century. He first saw active service under See also:Prince See also:Eugene in the See also:War of the See also:Spanish See also:Succession, and by 1716 had risen to the command of Prince Eugene's own See also:regiment of dragoons. He distinguished himself greatly at the battles of See also:Peterwardein and See also:Belgrade, and became in 1723 See also:major-See also:general of See also:cavalry (General-Wachtsneister), in 1726 proprietary See also:colonel of a regiment and in 1733 See also:lieutenant field marshal. In 1734 the War of the See also:Polish Succession brought him into the field again. He was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Parma (See also:June 29), where Count See also:Mercy, the Austrian See also:commander, was killed, and after Mercy's See also:death he held the See also:chief command of the See also:army in See also:Italy till Field Marshal Konigsegg's arrival. Under Konigsegg he again distinguished himself at the battle of See also:Guastalla (See also:September 19). He was once more in command during the operations which followed the battle, and his skilful generalship won for him the grade of general of cavalry. He continued in military and See also:diplomatic employment in Italy to the See also:close of the war. In 1737 he was made field marshal, Prince Eugene recommending him to his See also:sovereign as the best general in the service. His chief exploit in the See also:Turkish War, which soon followed his promotion, was at Radojevatz (September 28,1737), where he cut his way through a greatly See also:superior Turkish army. It was in the Austrian Succession War that his most brilliant See also:work was done. As commander-in-chief of the army on the See also:Danube he not only drove out the See also:French and Bavarian invaders of See also:Austria in a few days of rapid marching and See also:sharp engagements (See also:January, 1742), but overran See also:southern See also:Bavaria, captured See also:Munich, and forced a large French See also:corps in See also:Linz to surrender. Later in the summer of 1742, owing to the inadequate forces at his disposal, he had to evacuate his conquests, but in the following See also:campaign, though now subordinated to Prince See also:Charles of See also:Lorraine, Khevenhtiller
reconquered southern Bavaria, and forced the See also:emperor in June to conclude the unfavourable See also:convention of Nieder-See also:Schonfeld. He disapproved the advance beyond the See also:Rhine which followed these successes, and the event justified his fears, for the Austrians had to fall back from the Rhine through See also:Franconia and the See also:Breisgau, Khevenhuller himself conducting the See also:retreat with admirable skill. On his return to See also:Vienna, Maria See also:Theresa decorated the field marshal with the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:Golden Fleece. He died suddenly at Vienna on the 26th. of January 1744.
He was the author of various instructional See also:works for See also:officers and soldiers (See also:Des G. F. M. Grafen v. Khevenhuller Observationspunkte See also:fur sein Dragoner-regiment (1734 and 1748) and a reglement for the See also:infantry (1737), and of an important work on war in general, Kurzer Begriff aller militdrischen Operationen (Vienna, 1756; French version, Maximes de guerre, See also:Paris, 1771).
End of Article: KHEVENHULLER, LUDWIG ANDREAS (1683-1744)
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