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See also:LIGONIER, See also:JOHN (See also:JEAN Louts) LIGONIER, See also:EARL (168o--1770) , See also:British 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, came of a Huguenot See also:family of See also:Castres in the See also:south of See also:France, members of which emigrated to See also:England at the See also:close of the 17th See also:century. He entered the See also:army as a volunteer under See also:Marlborough. From 1702 to 1710 he was engaged, with distinction, in nearly every important See also:battle and See also:siege of the See also:war. He was one of the first to See also:mount the See also:breach at the siege of See also:Liege, commanded a See also:company at the Schellenberg and at See also:Blenheim, and was See also:present at See also:Menin (where he led the storming of the covered way), See also:Ramillies, Oudenarde and See also:Malplaquet (where he received twenty-three bullets through his clothing and remained unhurt). In 1712 he became See also:governor of Fort St See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip, See also:Minorca, and in 1718 was See also:adjutant-See also:general of the troops employed in the See also:Vigo expedition, where he led the stormers of Fort Marin. Two years later he became See also:colonel of the " See also:Black See also:Horse " (now 7th See also:Dragoon See also:Guards), a command which he retained for 29 years. His See also:regiment soon attained an extraordinary degree of efficiency. He was made brigadier-general in 1735, See also:major-general in 1739, and accompanied See also:Lord See also:Stair in the See also:Rhine See also:Campaign of 1742-1743. See also:George II. made him a See also:Knight of the See also:Bath on the field of See also:Dettingen.. At See also:Fontenoy Ligonier commanded the British See also:foot, and acted throughout the battle as adviser to the See also:duke of See also:Cumberland. During the " See also:Forty-Five " he was called See also:home to command the British army in the Midlands, but in See also:January 1746 was placed at the See also:head of the British and British-paid contingents of the Allied army in the See also:Low Countries. He was present at Roucoux (11th Oct. 1746), and, as general of horse, at Val (1st See also:July 1747), where he led the last See also:charge of the British See also:cavalry. In this encounter his horse was killed, and he was taken prisoner, but was ex-changed in a few days. With the close of the campaign ended Ligonier's active career, but (with a brief See also:interval in 1756-1757) he occupied various high See also:civil and military posts to the close of his See also:life. In 1757 he was made, in rapid See also:succession, commanderin-See also:chief, colonel of the 1st Foot Guards (now See also:Grenadier Guards), and a peer of See also:Ireland under the See also:title of See also:Viscount Ligonier of See also:Enniskillen, a title changed in 1762 for that of Clonmell. From 1759 to 1762 he was See also:master-general of the See also:Ordnance, and in 1763 he became See also:Baron, and in 1766 Earl, in the See also:English See also:peerage. In the latter See also:year he became field marshal. He died in 17.70. His younger See also:brother, See also:Francis, was also a distinguished soldier; and his son succeeded to the Irish peerage of Lord Ligonier.
See See also:Combes, J. L. Ligonier, une etude (Castres, 1866), and the histories of the 7th Dragoon Guards and Grenadier Guards.
End of Article: LIGONIER, JOHN (JEAN Louts) LIGONIER, EARL (168o--1770)
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