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See also:STENBOCK, See also:MAGNUS GUSTAFSSON, See also:COUNT (1664—1717) , See also:Swedish soldier, was educated at See also:Upsala and at See also:Paris, See also:chose the military profession, and spent some years in the service of.the See also:United Provinces. Returning to See also:Sweden he entered the See also:army, and in 1688 became See also:major. He served with the Swedes in the See also:Low Countries and on the See also:Rhine, distinguishing him-self for skill and courage at See also:Fleurus. During the See also:War of the See also:Grand See also:Alliance he was employed not only in 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 but also as a confidential See also:agent in See also:diplomatic See also:missions. Soon after-wards as See also:colonel of the 'Dalecarlian See also:regiment he led it in the astonishing victory of See also:Narva. He distinguished himself still more at Dunamunde, Klissow and See also:Cracow. In 1703 he fought the successful See also:battle of See also:Pultusk, and three years later, having reached the See also:rank of See also:general of See also:infantry, was made See also:governor-general of the See also:province of Scania, which he delivered from the Danish invaders by the decisive victory of Helsiiigborg. He was a See also:great favourite with See also:Charles XII. in the earlier See also:campaigns, but later the two drifted somewhat apart. It is recorded that 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, before whom General Lagercrona accused Stenbock of See also:drunkenness, replied that ".Stefbock drunk was more capable of giving orders than Lagercrona sober." His activities were not confined to war and See also:diplomacy; the university of See also:Lund was under his care for some years, and he had no mean skill as a painter and a poet. He became councillor in 1710, and Charles gave him his field See also:marshal's See also:baton in 1712. In the same See also:year he invaded See also:Mecklenburg (with but g000 men) 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 to See also:cover See also:Stralsund. He won the brilliant See also:action of Gadebusch, but See also:numbers prevailed against him in the end. Cut off in Tonning he was forced to surrender after a gallant resistance; and passed into captivity. Five years of harsh treatment in See also:Copenhagen brought his See also:life to a See also:close in 1717.
See Loenbom, MagniStenbocks lefverne (1757—1765) ; Lilljestrale, Magnus Stenbock (See also:Helsingborg,. 189o).
End of Article: STENBOCK, MAGNUS GUSTAFSSON, COUNT (1664—1717)
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