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See also:PASLEY, See also:SIR See also:CHARLES See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (178o—1861) , See also:British soldier and military engineer, was See also:born at Eskdale See also:Muir, See also:Dumfriesshire, on the 8th of See also:September 1780. In 1796 he entered the Royal Military See also:Academy, See also:Woolwich; a See also:year later he gained his See also:commission in the Royal See also:Artillery, and in 1i98 he was transferred to the Royal See also:Engineers. He was See also:present in the See also:defence of See also:Gaeta, the See also:battle of See also:Maida and the See also:siege of See also:Copenhagen. In 1807, being then a See also:captain, he went to the See also:Peninsula, where his knowledge of See also:Spanish led to his employment on the See also:staff of Sir See also:David See also:Baird and Sir See also:John See also:Moore. He took See also:part in the See also:retreat to See also:Corunna and the Walcheren Expedition, and received a severe See also:wound while gallantly leading a storming party at See also:Flushing. During his tedious recovery he employed himself in learning See also:German. He saw no further active service, the See also:rest of his See also:life being devoted to the See also:foundation of a See also:complete See also:science of military See also:engineering and to the thorough organization and training of the See also:corps of Royal Engineers. He was so successful that, though only a captain, he was allowed to See also:act for two years as commanding royal engineer at See also:Plymouth and given a See also:special See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant. The events of the See also:Peninsular See also:War having emphasized the need of a fully trained engineer corps, Pasley's views were adopted by the war See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and he himself placed at the See also:head of the new school of military engineering at Woolwich. This was in 1812, and Pasley was at the same 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 gazetted See also:brevet See also:major. He became brevet See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel in 1813 and substantive lieutenant-colonel in 1814. The first See also:volume of his Military Instruction appeared in 1814, and contained a course of See also:practical See also:geometry which he had framed for his See also:company at Plymouth. Two other volumes completing the See also:work appeared by 1817, and dealt with the science and practice of fortification, the latter comprising rules for construction. He published a work on Practical See also:Architecture, and prepared an important See also:treatise on The Practical Operations of a Siege (1829-1832), which was translated into See also:French (1847). He became brevet colonel in 183o and substantive colonel in 1831. From 1831—1834 the subject that engaged his leisure was that of standardization of coins, weights and See also:measures, and he published a See also:book on this in 1834. In 1838 he was presented with the freedom of the See also:city of See also:London for his services in removing sunken vessels from the See also:bed of the See also:Thames near See also:Gravesend; and from 1839 to 1844 he was occupied with clearing away the wrecks of H.M.S. " Royal See also:George " from Spithead and H.M.S. " See also:Edgar " from St Helens. All this work was subsidiary to his See also:great work of creating a comprehensive See also:art of military engineering. In 1841 on promotion to the See also:rank of major-See also:general he was made inspector-general of See also:railways. In 1846 on vacating this See also:appointment he was made a K.C.B., and thenceforward up to 1855 was chiefly concernedwith the See also:East See also:India Company's military academy at Addiscombe. He was promoted lieutenant-general in 1851, made colonel commandant of the Royal Engineers in 1853, and general in 1860. He died in London on the 19th of See also:April 1861. His eldest son, Major-General Charles Pasley (1824—1890), was a distinguished Royal Engineer officer.
Amongst Pasley's See also:works, besides those mentioned, were See also:separate See also:editions of his Practical Geometry Method (1822) and of his Course of Elementary Fortification (1822), both of which formed part of his Military Instruction; Rules far Escalading Fortifications not having Palisaded Covered Ways (1822 ; new eds. 1845 and 1854) ; descriptions of a See also:semaphore invented by himself in 18o4 (1822 and 1823) ; A See also:Simple Practical Treatise on 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 Fortification 1823) ; and Exercise of the Newdecked Pontoons invented by Lieutenant-Colonel Pasley (1823).
End of Article: PASLEY, SIR CHARLES WILLIAM (178o—1861)
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