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LEUTHEN , a See also:village of Prussian See also:Silesia, to m. W. of See also:Breslau, memorable as the See also:scene of See also:Frederick the See also:Great's victory over the
Austrians on See also:December 5, 1757• The high road from Breslau to Luben crosses the marshy See also:Schweidnitz See also:Water at See also:Lissa,
and immediately enters the See also:rolling See also:country about Neumarkt.
Leuthen itself stands some 4000 paces See also:south of the road, and a similar distance south again lies Sagschiitz, while Nypern, on the See also:northern edge of the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill country, is 5000 paces from the road. On Frederick's approach the Austrians took up a See also:line of See also:battle resting on the two last-named villages. Their whole position was strongly garrisoned and protected by obstacles, and their See also:artillery was numerous though of See also:light calibre. A strong outpost of Saxon See also:cavalry was in See also:Borne to the westward. Frederick had the previous See also:day surprised the See also:Austrian bakeries at Neumarkt, and his Prussians, 33,000 to the enemy's 82,000, moved towards Borne and Leuthen See also:early on the 5th. The Saxon outpost was rushed at in the See also:morning mist, and, covered by their advanced guard on the heights beyond, the Prussians wheeled to their right. See also:Prince See also:Charles of See also:Lorraine, the Austrian commanderin-See also:chief, on Leuthen See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church See also:tower, could make nothing of Frederick's movements, and the See also:commander of his right wing (Lucchesi) sent him See also:message after message from Nypem and Gocklerwitz asking for help, which was eventually despatched. But the real See also:blow was to fall on the See also:left under See also:Nadasdy. While the Austrian commander was thus wasting 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, the Prussians were marching against Nadasdy in two columns, which preserved their distances with an exactitude which has excited the wonder of See also:modern generations of soldiers; at the due See also:place they wheeled into line of battle obliquely to the Austrian front, and in one great See also:echelon,—the cavalry of the right wing foremost, and that of the left " refused,"—Frederick advanced on Sagschiitz. Nadasdy, surprised, put a bold See also:face on the See also:matter and made a See also:good See also:defence, but he was speedily routed, and, as the Prussians advanced, See also:battalion after battalion was rolled up towards Leuthen until the Austrians faced almost due south. The fighting in Leuthen itself was furious; the Austrians stood, in places, Too deep, but the disciplined valour of the Prussians carried the village. For a moment the victory was endangered when Lucchesi came down upon the Prussian left wing from the See also:north, but Driesen's cavalry, till then refused, charged him in flank and scattered his troopers in See also:wild rout. This stroke ended the battle. The See also:retreat on Breslau became a rout almost comparable to that of See also:Waterloo, and Prince Charles rallied, in Bohemia, barely 37,000 out of his 82,000. Ten thousand Austrians were left on 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, 21,000 taken prisoners (besides 17,000 in Breslau a little later), with 51 See also:colours and 116 See also:cannon. The Prussian loss in all was under 5500. It was not until 1854 that a memorial of this astonishing victory was erected on the battlefield.
See See also:Carlyle, Frederick, bk. xviii. cap. x.; V. 011ech, See also:Friedrich der See also:Grosse von See also:Kolin bis Leuthen (See also:Berlin, 1858) ; Kutzen, Schlacht bei Leuthen (Breslau, 1851); and bibliography under SEVEN YEARS'
W Alt.
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