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See also:SKIPPON, 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 (d. ,66o) , See also:English soldier in the See also:Civil See also:Wars, was See also:born at See also:West Lexham, See also:Norfolk. At an See also:early See also:age he adopted the military profession and in 1622 was serving with See also:Sir See also:Horace See also:Vere in the See also:Palatinate. He took See also:part in most of the battles and sieges of the 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 in the See also:Low Countries. At the sieges of See also:Breda in 1625 and 1637 he was wounded, and under his old See also:commander, See also:Lord Vere, he was See also:present when Bois-le-Duc ('s Hertogenbosch) and Maestricht were attacked in 1629. A See also:veteran of considerable experience, See also:Captain Skippon returned to See also:England in 1639, and was immediately appointed to a command in the (See also:Honourable) See also:Artillery See also:Company. In "1642 the Civil See also:War was fast approaching, and in See also:January Skippon was made
commander of the See also:City troops. He was not present at Edgehill, but he rode up and down the lines of his raw militiamen at Turnham See also:Green, See also:cheering and encouraging them in the See also:face of 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's victorious See also:army. See also:Essex, the Lord See also:General of the See also:Parliament forces, soon made Skippon his See also:major-general, a See also:post which carried with it the command of the See also:foot and the complicated See also:duty of arranging the See also:line of See also:battle, He was with Essex at See also:Gloucester, and at the first battle of See also:Newbury distinguished himself at the See also:head of the See also:infantry. At the end of 1644 the amazing See also:desertion of Essex when his army was surrounded at See also:Lostwithiel See also:left Skippon in command; compelled to surrender without firing a shot, the old soldier See also:bore himself with calmness and fortitude in this adversity. At the second battle of Newbury he and Essex's old foot had the See also:satisfaction of recapturing six of the guns they had lost at Lostwithiel. The See also:appointment as major-general of the New See also:Model Army soon followed, as, apart from his distinguished services, there was scarcely another See also:man in England with the knowledge of detail requisite for the post. In this capacity he supported See also:Fairfax as loyally, as he supported Essex, and at See also:Naseby, though dangerously wounded, he would not quit 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. For his conduct on this decisive field the two Houses of Parliament thanked him, and they sent him See also:special physicians to cure him of his See also:wound. It was See also:long before he was See also:fit to serve in the field again. He only reappeared at the See also:siege of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, which he directed. At the end of the war he was selected for the command of the forthcoming Irish expedition, with the See also:rank of See also:marshal-general. .The discontent of the soldiery, however, which ended in open See also:mutiny, put an end to a command which Skippon had only accepted under See also:great pressure. He bore a part in all the movements which the army leaders now carried out. A Presbyterian himself, he endeavoured to preserve a See also:middle position between his own See also:sect and the See also:Independents, and to secure by any means a See also:firm treaty with the king. The army outstripped Fairfax and Skippon in See also:action. The major-general was named as one of the king's See also:judges, but, like his See also:chief, did not take his See also:place. During the See also:Commonwealth See also:period he held high 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, military and civil, but ceased to See also:influence passing events. Ile was one of the members of See also:Cromwell's See also:House of Lords, and, in general, was universally respected and beloved. Age and infirmities prevented him from taking any part in the revolutions, which culminated in the restoration of the See also:Monarchy, and in See also:March 1660 he died. Skippon was a deeply religious man, and wrote several books of devotion for the use of soldiers. One of his few sayings in Parliament, that on the fanatic Naylor, has become famous: " If this be See also:liberty, See also:God deliver us from such liberty!"
See Vicars, English Worthies (1647).
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