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See also:MOLLENDORF, See also:RICHARD See also:JOACHIM HEINRICH VON (1724-1816) , Prussian soldier, began his career as a See also:page of See also:Frederick the See also:Great in 1740. The outbreak of the Silesian See also:wars gave him his first opportunity of seeing active service, and the end of the second See also:war saw him a See also:captain. In the Seven Years' War his brilliant conduct at the See also:churchyard of See also:Leuthen (1757) and at Hochkirch won him his See also:majority. In 17 6o his exertions retrieved the almost lost See also:battle of See also:Torgau, and the last success of the great See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king was won by the brigades of See also:Prince Wied and Mollendorf (now See also:major-See also:general) at the Burkersdorf heights. Seventeen years later, as See also:lieutenant-general, he won at Brix one of the few successes of the Bavarian See also:Succession (or " See also:Potato ") War. In the years of See also:peace he occupied considerable posts, being made See also:governor of See also:Berlin in 1783. Promoted general of See also:infantry in 1787, and general 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 in 1793, he commanded the Prussian See also:army on the See also:Rhine in 1794. In the disastrous See also:campaign of See also:Jena (1806) Mollendorf played a considerable See also:part, though he did not actually command a See also:corps. He was See also:present with the king at Auerstadt, falling into the hands of the See also:French in the debacle which followed. After his See also:release he passed the See also:remainder of his See also:life in retirement. He died in 1816.
End of Article: MOLLENDORF, RICHARD JOACHIM HEINRICH VON (1724-1816)
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