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See also:SCHILL, See also:FERDINAND BAPTISTA VON (1776-1809) , Prussian soldier, was See also:born in See also:Saxony. Entering the Prussian See also:cavalry at the See also:age of twelve, he was still a subaltern of dragoons when he was wounded at the See also:battle of Auerstadt. From that 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 he escaped to See also:Kolberg, where he played a very prominent See also:part in the celebrated See also:siege of 1807, as the See also:commander of a volunteer force of all arms. After the See also:peace of See also:Tilsit he was promoted See also:major and given the command of a See also:hussar See also:regiment formed from his Kolberg men. In 1809 the See also:political situation in See also:Europe appeared to Schill to favour an See also:attempt to liberate his See also:country from the See also:French domination. Leading out his regiment from See also:Berlin under pretext of manoeuvres, he raised the See also:standard of revolt, and, joined by many See also:officers and a See also:company of See also:light See also:infantry, marched for the See also:Elbe. At the See also:village of Dodendorf (5th of May 1809) he had a See also:brush with the See also:Magdeburg See also:garrison, but was soon driven northwards, where he hoped to find See also:British support. The 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 of See also:Prussia's proclamations prevented the patriots from receiving ,any appreciable assistance, and with little more than his See also:original force Schill was surrounded by 5000 Danish and Dutch troops in the neighbourhood of See also:Wismar. He escaped by hard fighting (See also:action of Damgarten, 24th of May) to See also:Stralsund, and attempted to put the crumbling fortifications in 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. The Danes and Dutch soon hemmed him in, and by sheer See also:numbers overwhelmed the defenders (May 31). Schill himself was killed. Some parties escaped to Prussia, where the officers were tried by See also:court-See also:martial, cashiered and imprisoned. A few escaped to See also:Swinemunde, but the See also:rest were either killed or taken. Handed over to the French, the soldiers were sent to the galleys, and the eleven officers shot at See also:Wesel on the 16th
of See also:September. The See also:body of Schill was buried at Stralsund, his See also:head sent to See also:Leiden, where it remained until 1837. Monuments were erected at See also:Brunswick, Stralsund and Wesel, and the 1st Silesian Leib-Hussars have See also:borne Schill's name since 1889.
See Haken, Ferdinand von Schill (See also:Leipzig, 1824) ; Barsch, Ferdinand von Schill's See also:Zug and See also:Tod (Leipzig, 186o), and F. von Schill, ein Charakterbild (See also:Potsdam, 1860) ; Petrich, See also:Pommer'sche Lebensbilder, vol. ii. (See also:Stettin, 1884); See also:Francke, Aus Stralsunds Franzosenzeit (18990).
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