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See also:KLAPKA, GEORG (1820-1892) , Hungarian soldier, wa's See also:born at See also:Temesvar on the 7th of See also:April 1820, and entered the See also:Austrian See also:army in 1838. He was still a subaltern when the Hungarian revolution of 1848 See also:broke out, and he offered his services to the patriot party. He served in important See also:staff appointments during the earlier See also:part of the See also:war which followed; then, See also:early in 1849, he was ordered to replace See also:General Meszaros, who had been defeated at Kaschau, and as general commanding an army corpshe had a conspicuous See also:share in the victories of Kapbina, Isaszeg, Waitzen, Nagy Sarlo and See also:Komarom. Then, as the See also:fortune of war turned against the Hungarians, Klapka, after serving for a See also:short 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 as See also:minister of war, took command at Komarom, from which fortress he conducted a number of successful expeditions until the See also:capitulation of Vilagos in See also:August put an end to the war in the open 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. He then brilliantly defended Komarom for two months, and finally surrendered on See also:honourable terms. Klapka See also:left the See also:country at once, and lived thenceforward for many years in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, at first in See also:England and afterwards chiefly in See also:Switzerland. He continued by every means in his See also:power to See also:work for the See also:independence of See also:Hungary, especially at moments of See also:European war, such as 1854, 1859 and 1866, at which an See also:appeal to arms seemed to him to promise success. After the war of 1866 (in which as a Prussian See also:major-general he organized a Hungarian See also:corps in See also:Silesia) Klapka was permitted by the Austrian See also:government to return to his native country, and in 1867 was elected a member of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies, in which he belonged to the See also:Deak party. In 1877 he made an See also:attempt to reorganize the See also:Turkish army in view of the war with See also:Russia. General Klapka died at See also:Budapest on the 17th of May 1892. A memorial was erected to his memory at Komarom in 1896.
He wrote Memoiren (See also:Leipzig, 1850) ; Der Nationalkrieg in Ungarn, &c. (Leipzig, 1851); a See also:history of the See also:Crimean War, Der Krieg See also:im Orient . . . bis Ende Juli 1855 (See also:Geneva, 1855) ; and Aus meinen Erinnerungen (translated from the Hungarian, See also:Zurich, 1887).
End of Article: KLAPKA, GEORG (1820-1892)
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