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See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
SMITH, See also:SIR See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:GEORGE WAKELYN , See also:Bart. (1787-186o), See also:British See also:general, son of See also:John Smith, surgeon, of See also:Whittlesey, See also:Cambridgeshire, was See also:born at that See also:place on the 28th of See also:June 1787. Harry Smith—for throughout See also:life he adopted the more See also:familiar See also:form of his See also:Christian name—was educated privately and entered the See also:army in 1805. His first active service was in See also:South See also:America in 18o6, and he subsequently served through the See also:Peninsular See also:War from the concentration at See also:Salamanca in See also:November 18o8 to the See also:battle of See also:Toulouse on the loth of See also:April 1814. On the See also:day following the storming of Badajos (the 6th of April 1812) a well-born See also:Spanish See also:lady, whose entire See also:property in the See also:city had been destroyed, presented herself at the British lines seeking See also:protection from the See also:licence of the soldiery for herself and her See also:sister, a See also:child of fourteen, by whom she was accompanied. The latter, whose name was Juana Maria de Los Dolores de See also:Leon, had but recently emerged from a See also:convent; but notwithstanding her years she was married to Harry Smith a few days later. She remained with him throughout the See also:rest of the war, accompanying the baggage See also:train, sleeping in the open on 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 of battle, See also:riding freely among the troops, and sharing all the privations of campaigning. Her beauty, courage, See also:sound See also:judgment and amiable See also:character endeared her to the See also:officers, including the See also:duke of See also:Wellington, who spoke of her familiarly as Juanita; and she was idolized by the soldiers. At the See also:close of the war Harry Smith volunteered for service in the See also:United States, where he was pre-sent at the battle of Bladensburg (the 24th of See also:August 1814), and witnessed the burning of the capitol at See also:Washington; which, as he said, " horrified us coming fresh from the duke's humane warfare in the south of See also:France." Returning to See also:Europe he was See also:brigade-See also:major at See also:Waterloo; and in 1828 was ordered to the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope, where he commanded a See also:division in the Kaffir War of 1834-36. In 1835 he accomplished the feat of riding from Cape See also:Town to See also:Graham's Town, a distance of 600 m., in less than six days; and having restored confidence among the whites by his energetic See also:measures, he was appointed See also:governor of the new See also:Province of See also:Queen See also:Adelaide, where he gained unbounded See also:influence over the native tribes, whom he vigorously set himself to civilize and benefit. But though supported by Sir See also:Benjamin D'See also:Urban, the high See also:commissioner, the See also:ministry in See also:London reversed his policy and—to quote Smith's own words—" directed the Province of Queen Adelaide to be restored to barbarism." Smith himself was removed from his command, his departure being deplored alike by the See also:Kaffirs and the Dutch; and See also:numbers of the latter, largely in consequence of this policy of See also:Lord See also:Glenelg, began the See also:migration to the interior known as " the See also:great trek."
Harry Smith was now appointed See also:deputy-See also:adjutant-general ofthe forces in See also:India, where he took See also:part in the See also:Gwalior See also:campaign of 1843 (for which he received a K.C.B.) and the See also:Sikh War of 1845-46. He was in command of a division under Sir See also:Hugh See also:Gough at the battles of See also:Moodkee and See also:Ferozeshah, where he conspicuously distinguished himself, but was insufficiently sup-ported by the See also:commander-in-See also:chief. After the second of these actions Sir Harry Smith was appointed to an See also:independent command, and on the 28th of See also:January 1846 he inflicted a crushing defeat on the Sikhs at See also:Aliwal on the See also:Sutlej. At See also:Sobraon on the loth of See also:February he again commanded a division under Gough. For the great victory of Aliwal he was awarded the thanks of See also:parliament; and the speech of the duke of Wellington was perhaps the warmest encomium ever bestowed by that great commander on a meritorious officer. Sir Harry 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 created a See also:baronet; and as a See also:special distinction the words " of Aliwal " were by the patent appended to the See also:title. In 1847 he returned to South See also:Africa as governor of Cape See also:Colony and high commissioner, to grapple with the difficulties he had fore-seen eleven years before (see CAPE COLONY: See also:History). He took command of an expedition to See also:deal with the disaffected Boers in the See also:Orange See also:River See also:Sovereignty, and fought the See also:action of Boomplaats on the 29th of August 1848. In See also:December 185o war See also:broke out with the Kaffirs; Sir Harry Smith was insufficiently supplied with troops from See also:England; and though his conduct of the operations was warmly approved by the duke of Wellington and other military authorities, Lord See also:Grey, in a despatch never submitted to the queen, recalled him in 1852 before the Kaffirs had been completely subdued. He protested strongly against the See also:- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")
abandonment of the Orange River Sovereignty to the Boers, which was carried out two years after his departure, and he actively furthered the granting of responsible See also:government to Cape Colony. His Spanish wife was his See also:constant See also:companion in his second as in his earlier sojourn in South Africa, where her memory is recalled by the town of See also:Ladysmith in See also:Natal (rendered famous by the See also:Boer War of 1899-1902), as is that of her See also:husband by See also:Harrismith in the Orange See also:Free See also:State; while Aliwal See also:North, founded in 1849 and named after his great See also:Indian victory, further commemorates Sir Harry Smith. On his return to England he held a military See also:appointment for some years, and died in London on the 12th of See also:October 186o. Juana, Lady Smith, survived till 1872.
See Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith, edited by G. C. See also:Moore Smith (1901) ; R. S. Rait, Life of See also:Viscount Gough (19o3); See also:Wilmot and See also:Chase,, See also:Annals of the Cape Colony (1869); J. See also:Noble, South Africa (1877); Theal's History of South Africa, vol. iv. (R. J.
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