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See also:STEINMETZ, KARL See also:FRIEDRICH VON (1796-1877) , Prussian See also: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, was See also:born at See also:Eisenach on the 27th of See also:December 1796 and educated at the See also:cadet school of See also:Stolp in See also:Pomerania from 1807 to 1811, in the midst of the misery and poverty caused by the See also:French occupation. At the outbreak of the See also:War of Liberation he and his See also:elder See also:brother made their way through the French posts to See also:Breslau, where, in spite of their poverty, they were at once appointed to the See also:army, the elder as See also:ensign on See also:probation, the younger to the substantive See also:rank of second See also:lieutenant. After a vain See also:attempt to obtain a See also:transfer to the See also:Blucher Hussars, for which See also:regiment he had conceived an intense boyish admiration when it was quartered at Stolp, he was ordered to See also:report himself to See also:York, who treated him and the other See also:officers sent from Breslau with coldness, until See also:young Steinmetz asked " when he was to return to 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 who had sent him ?" The See also:brothers took See also:part in the hardest fighting of the See also:campaign of 1813, the elder being killed at See also:Leipzig and the younger being more than once wounded. The See also:short See also:halt on the See also:Rhine he utilized in improving his military and general See also:education. In the battles in See also:France he won the second class of the See also:Iron See also:Cross. After the See also:peace he entered See also:Paris but once, fearing to infringe upon the ten ducats that he saved monthly from his pay to send to his See also:mother. For the same See also:reason he held aloof from the pleasures of his more fortunate comrades. His avoidance of youthful excesses enabled him to overcome his earlier See also:bad See also:health and to acquire a See also:physical vigour which he kept to the end of his See also:long career as a soldier. His See also:character as well as his physique was strengthened by his Spartan way of See also:life, but his See also:temper was naturally embittered by the circumstances which imposed this self-See also:restraint. His poverty and want of See also:influence were the more obvious as he was, shortly after the See also:wars, assigned to the 2nd See also:Foot See also:Guards, stationed in See also:Berlin. He rigorously devoted himself to study and to the routine duties of his profession. From 182o to 1824 he studied with distinction at the General War See also:Academy, and was at the end of the course appointed to the topographical See also:section of the general See also:staff. General von See also:Muffling reported of him that he was arrogant and that he resented " encouragement" —which he probably regarded as patronage—but that his ability would enable him to out-distance his comrades. Steinmetz was too poor to See also:mount himself on the small See also:allowance granted to general staff officers, and had to remain with his regiment in consequence. But shortly after this his See also:marriage to his See also:cousin Julie, the daughter of Lieutenant-General K. F. F. von Steinmetz (1768-1837), not only tempered his fierce and resentful See also:state of mind, but in a measure improved his material prospects, for his See also:father-in-See also:law was generous to the young couple, and his See also:appointment as See also:captain at the Guard See also:Landwehr See also:depot at See also:Potsdam, near where the general lived, brought them into daily contact. His See also:brigade See also:commander too, General von Roder, was an excellent soldier, and Steinmetz often spoke in later days of the thorough training he received at his hands. After this from about 1830 his regimental See also:work and his promotion went on without incident for several years in various garrisons, until in 1839 he became See also:major and See also:battalion commander. In this position he had many See also:official See also:differences with his immediate superiors, for he urged a strenuous war training for the troops, in See also:season and out of season, too vigorously for his more conservative comrades, but off See also:parade his relations with all, thanks chiefly to the social gifts of his wife, were of the most pleasant character. In 1848 he was in command of a guard battalion during the disturbances in Berlin, but was not engaged, and soon found more active employment in the Danish
War. At See also:Schleswig he so distinguished himself that See also:Wrangel, the commander-in-See also:chief, told him that he had " decided the See also:battle." He distinguished himself again at See also:Duppel, and See also:Prince 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 himself decorated him with the 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 pour le me rile on parade. For his campaign See also:journals and letters see supplement to Milittir Wochenblatt for 1878. On returning he was entrusted with the difficult command of the troops at See also:Brandenburg during the sitting of a democratic popular See also:convention at that See also:place, and after this with the See also:control of some troops that were known to be affected by the prevalent spirit of revolution. At 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 of the See also:Olmutz-Bronnzell incident of 185o he was employed as military'See also:governor of See also:Cassel, and in 1851, becoming See also:colonel commandant of the cadet school of Berlin, he at once set about the See also:reformation of the prevailing See also:system of instruction, the defects of which he had openly condemned as See also:early as 1820. Though more than fifty years of See also:age, he now learned Latin and See also:English in order to be a more competent instructor. In 1854, after See also:forty-one years of active service, he was promoted major-general. At See also:Magdeburg, as at Berlin, his reforming zeal made him many enemies, and in See also:October of this See also:year he sustained a loss which almost unhinged his mind in the See also:death of his youngest and only surviving See also:child, a girl of twenty-six. From Magdeburg he was removed to the command of a guard brigade at Berlin (1857), and thence almost immediately to a divisional command in the I. See also:Corps. Early in 1858 he was promoted lieutenant-general, and for the five years that he held this command he devoted himself particularly to acquiring knowledge of the See also:cavalry See also:arm. About 1863, learning that von Bonin, his See also:senior by date, but his junior in age and length of service, was about to be appointed to command the I. Corps, he meditated retirement, but the authorities at the same time as they appointed Bonin made Steinmetz commander of the II. Corps, and shortly afterwards, when the See also:crown prince of See also:Prussia took over this See also:post, commander of the V. Corps at See also:Posen. Shortly after this his wife died. He was promoted general of See also:infantry in 1864, and led the V. Corps to the war against See also:Austria in 1866. This was the See also:chance of his lifetime. His skilful and resolute leadership was displayed in his three battles, won on three successive days, of See also:Nachod, Skalitz and Schweinschadel (see SEVEN See also:WEEKS' WAR), and opened the way through the mountains in spite of the defeat of Steinmetz's See also:rival Bonin at See also:Trautenau. In 1867, in his loneliness, the " See also:Lion of Nachod," as he was popularly called, contracted a second marriage with Elise von Krosigk (who after his death married See also:Count See also:Bruhl). He was now, for the first time in his life, a fairly wealthy See also:man, having been awarded a See also:money 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 for his brilliant services in 1866. About this time he was elected a member of the See also:North See also:German See also:Confederation See also:parliament.
At the outbreak of the war of 1870 Steinmetz was appointed to command one of the three armies assembled on the Rhine, the others being led by Prince See also:Frederick See also:Charles and the crown prince. It was not long before serious differences arose between Steinmetz and Prince Frederick Charles. The former, embittered by a lifelong struggle against the influences of See also:wealth and position, and perhaps somewhat grist by his successes in 1866, considered an order to clear the roads for the prince's army as an attempt to See also:crowd a humbler comrade out of the fighting See also:line, and various incidents added See also:day by day to his growing resentment until at last on the field of See also:Gravelotte (see See also:METZ and FRANCO-GERMAN WAR for an See also:account of these quarrels) he lost his temper and wasted his troops. After this there was no alternative but to relieve him of the command of the I. Army and to send him See also:home as governor-general of the V. and VI. Army Corps districts. In See also:April 1871 he was retired at his own See also:request, but his See also:great services were not forgotten when victory had softened animosites, and he was promoted general field-marshal, given a See also:pension of 2000 thalers and made a member of the upper chamber. In the spirit of See also:loyalty which had guided his whole career as a soldier he made no attempt to justify his conduct in 1870 either against the criticisms of the general staff See also:history or against unofficial attacks. His life in retirement was quieta.nd happy, and he retained his bodily healtlf to the
See also:STELLENBOSCH
last. He died at Bad See also:Landeck on the 2nd of See also:August 1877, The 37th Fusiliers of the German army See also:bear his name as part of their regimental See also:title.
See supplement of Milit¢r Wochenblatt (1877 and 1878).
End of Article: STEINMETZ, KARL FRIEDRICH VON (1796-1877)
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