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See also:MERRITT, See also:WESLEY (1836- ) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in New See also:York See also:City on the 16th of See also:June 1836. He graduated at See also:West Point in 186o, and was assigned to the See also:cavalry service. He served in See also:Utah (1861) and in the defences of See also:Washington (1861-62); learnt 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 duties of his See also:arm as aide (1862) to See also:General 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 St See also:George See also:Cooke, who then commanded the cavalry of the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac; became brigadier-general, See also:United States See also:Volunteers, in June 1863; and in See also:September 1863 was placed in command of a See also:brigade of See also:regular cavalry in the Army of the Potomac. He won See also:great distinction in the Virginian See also:campaigns of 1864-65 and in See also:Sheridan's Valley See also:campaign, being brevetted See also:major-general of volunteers for his conduct at See also:Winchester and See also:Fisher's 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, and brigadier-general of the regular army for his services at Five Forks. In the final campaign about See also:Richmond he did such See also:good service in command of a cavalry See also:division that he was brevetted major-general in the regular army and was promoted major-general of volunteers. With two other Federal commissioners he arranged with the Confederate commanders for the surrender of the Army of See also:Northern See also:Virginia. He was mustered out of the Volunteer Service in See also:February 1866, and in See also:July became See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel of the 9th cavalry in the regular army, being promoted gradually to major-general (1895). He served in the Big See also:Horn and Yellowstone See also:Indian campaigns (1876) and in the expedition to relieve the command of Major Thornburgh, who was killed in 1879 by the Utes; was See also:superintendent at West Point (1882-87); and commanded the military See also:department of See also:Missouri in 1887-95, and that of the See also:Atlantic in 1897-98. He was assigned in May 1898 to the command of the United States forces that were sent to the Philippines, after See also:Admiral See also:Dewey's victory; stormed See also:Manila on the 13th of See also:August; and was military See also:governor of the islands until the 3oth of August, when he See also:left Manila for See also:Paris to join the See also:peace See also:commission. From 1899 until his retirement from active service in June
1900 he commanded the Department of the See also:East.
End of Article: MERRITT, WESLEY (1836- )
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