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MIKHAIL SEMENOVICH See also:VORONTSOV (1782-1856) , See also:Russian See also:prince and 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, son of the preceding, spent his childhood and youth with his See also:father in See also:London, where he received a brilliant See also:education. During 1803--4 he served in the See also:Caucasus under Tsitsianov and Gulyakov, and was nearly killed in the Zakatahko disaster (See also:January 15, 1804). From ISo,5 to 1807 he served in the See also:Napoleonic See also:wars, and was See also:present at the battles of See also:Pultusk and See also:Friedland. From 1809 to 1811 he participated in the See also:Turkish See also:War and distinguished himself in nearly every important See also:action. He was attached to See also:Bagration's See also:army during the war of 1812, was seriously wounded at See also:Borodino, sufficiently recovering, however, to re-join the army in 1813. In 1814, at Craonne, he brilliantly withstood See also:Napoleon in See also:person. He was the See also:commander of the See also:corps of occupation in See also:France from 1815 to 1818. On the 7th of May 1823 he was appointed See also:governor-See also:general of New See also:Russia, as the See also:southern provinces of the See also:empire were then called, which under his See also:administration See also:developed marvellously. He may be said to have been the creator of See also:Odessa and the benefactor of the See also:Crimea. He was the first to start See also:steam-boats on the See also:Black See also:Sea (1828). The same See also:year he succeeded the wounded See also:Menshikov as commander of the forces besieging See also:Varna, which he captured on the 28th of See also:September. In the See also:campaign of ,829 it was through his energetic efforts that the See also:plague, which had broken out in See also:Turkey, did not penetrate into Russia. In 1844 Vorontsov was appointed commanderin-See also:chief and governor of the Caucasus with plenipotentiary See also:powers. For his brilliant campaign against See also:Shamyl, and especially for his difficult See also:march through the dangerous forests of Ichkerinia, he was raised to the dignity of prince, with the See also:title of Serene See also:Highness. By 1848 he had captured two-thirds of See also:Daghestan, and the situation of the Russians in the Caucasus, so See also:long almost desperate, was steadily improving. In the be-ginning of 1853 Vorontsov was allowed to retire because of his increasing infirmities. He was made a field-marshal in 1856, and died the same year at Odessa. Statues have been erected to him both there and at See also:Tiflis.
See V. V. Ogarkov, The Vorontsovs (Rus.) (See also:Petersburg, 1892); Vorontsov Archives (Rus. and Fr ) (See also:Moscow, 187o, &c.) ; M. P. Shelverbinin, See also:Biography of Prince M. S. Vorontsov (Rus.) (See also:Peters-See also:burg, 1858). (R. N.
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