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MACK VON LEIBERICH, KARL, FREIHERR (1752-1828) , See also:Austrian soldier, was See also:born at Nenslingen, in See also:Bavaria, on the 25th of See also:August 1752. In 1770 he joined an Austrian See also:cavalry See also:regiment, in which his See also:uncle, Leiberich, was a See also:squadron See also:commander, becoming an officer seven years later. During the brief See also:war of the Bavarian See also:Succession he was selected for service on the See also:staff of See also:Count Kinsky, under whom, and subsequently under the commander-in-See also:chief 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 Count See also:Lacy, he did excellent See also:work. He was promoted first See also:lieutenant in 1778, and See also:captain on the quartermaster-See also:general's staff in 1783. Count Lacy, then the foremost soldier of the Austrian See also:army, had the highest See also:opinion of his See also:young assistant. In 1785 Mack married Katherine Gabrieul, and was ennobled under the name of Mack von Leiberich. In the See also:Turkish war he was employed on the headquarter staff, becoming in 1788 See also:major and See also:personal aide-de-See also:camp to the See also:emperor, and in 1789 lieutenant-See also:colonel. He distinguished himself greatly in the storming of See also:Belgrade. Shortly after this, disagreements between Mack and Loudon, now commander-in-chief, led to the former's demanding a See also:court-See also:martial and leaving the front. He was, however, given a colonelcy (1789) and 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 Maria See also:Theresa, and in 1790 Loudon and Mack, having become reconciled, were again on the field together. During these See also:campaigns Mack received a severe injury to his See also:head, from which he never fully recovered. In 1793 he was made quartermaster-general (chief of staff) to See also:Prince Josias of See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg, commanding in the See also:Netherlands; and he enhanced his reputation by the ensuing See also:campaign. The young See also:Archduke See also:Charles, who won his own first laurels in the See also:action of the 1st of See also:March 1793, wrote after the See also:battle, " Above all we have to thank Colonel Mack for these successes." Mack distinguished himself again on the field of See also:Neerwinden; and had a leading See also:part in the negotiations between Coburg and See also:Dumouriez. He continued to serve as quartermaster-general, and was now made titular chief (Inhaber) of a cuirassier regiment. He received a See also:wound at Famars, but in 1794 was once more engaged, having at last been made a major-general. But thefailure of the See also:allies, due though it was to See also:political and military factors and ideas, over which Mack had no See also:control, was ascribed to him, as their successes of March-See also:April 1793 had been, and he See also:fell into disfavour in consequence. In 1797 he was promoted lieutenant field marshal, and in the following See also:year he accepted, at the personal See also:request of the emperor, the command of the Neapolitan army. But with the unpromising material of his new command he could do nothing against the See also:French revolutionary troops, and before See also:long, being in actual danger of being murdered by his men, he took See also:refuge in the French camp. He was promised a See also:free pass to his own See also:country, but See also:Napoleon ordered that he should be sent to See also:France as a prisoner of war. Two years later he escaped from See also:Paris in disguise. The allegation that he See also:broke his See also:parole is false. He was not employed for some years, but in 1804, when the war party in the Austrian court needed a general to oppose the See also:peace policy of the See also:Arch-See also:duke Charles, Mack was made quartermaster-general of the army, with instructions to prepare for a war with France. He did all that was possible within the available 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 to reform the army, and on the opening of the war of 18o5 he was made quartermaster-general to the titular commander-in-chief in See also:Germany, the Archduke See also:Ferdinand. He was the real responsible commander of the army which opposed Napoleon in Bavaria, but his position was See also:ill-defined and his authority treated with slight respect by the other general See also:officers. For the events of the See also:Ulm campaign and an estimate of Mack's responsibility for the disaster, see See also:NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGNS. After See also:Austerlitz, Mack was tried by a court-martial, sitting from See also:February 18o6 to See also:June 1807, and sentenced to be deprived of his See also:rank, his regiment, and the order of Maria Theresa, and to be imprisoned for two years. He was released in 18o8, and in 1819, when the ultimate victory of the allies had obliterated the memory of earlier disasters, he was, at the request of Prince See also:Schwarzenberg, re-instated in the army as lieutenant field marshal and a member of the order of Maria Theresa. He died on the 22nd of See also:October 1828 at S. PSlten.
See Schweigerd, Oesterreichs Helden (See also:Vienna, 1854) ; Wiirzbach, Biogr. Lexikon d. Kaiserthums Oesterr. (Vienna, 1867) ; See also:Ritter von Rittersberg, Biogr. d. ausgezeichneten Feldherren d. oest. Armee (See also:Prague, 1828) ; See also:Raumer's Hist. Taschenbuch (1873) contains Mack's vindication. A See also:short See also:critical memoir will be found in Streffleur for See also:January 1907.
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