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See also:THIELMANN, JOHANN ADOLF, FREIHERR VON (1765-1824) , Prussian See also:cavalry soldier, was See also:born at See also:Dresden. Entering the Saxon cavalry in 1782, he saw service against the See also:French in the Revolutionary See also:Wars and in the See also:Jena See also:campaign. When, after the disaster of Jena, See also:Saxony allied herself with her conqueror, Thielmann accompanied the Saxon contingent which fought at the See also:siege of See also:Danzig and at See also:Friedland. In 18og, as See also:colonel of a See also:Free-See also:Corps, he opposed the advance of the Austrians into Saxony, and was rewarded for his services with the grade of See also:major-See also:general, further promotion to See also:lieutenant-general following in 181o. As See also:commander of the Saxon Heavy Cavalry See also:Brigade he took See also:part in the advance on See also:Moscow two years later, and his conduct at See also:Borodino attracted the See also:attention of See also:Napoleon, who took Thielmann into his own See also:suite. His own See also:sovereign 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 made him Freiherr. In the See also:war of Liberation Thielmann took a prominent part; as See also:governor of See also:Torgau, by his 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 orders he at first observed the strictest See also:neutrality, but on See also:receipt of an 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:hand over the fortress to the French he resigned his command and, accompanied by his See also:staff officer See also:Aster, joined the See also:allies. As a See also:Russian general he was employed in reorganizing the Saxon See also:army after See also:Leipzig, and in 1814 he commanded the Saxon corps operating in the See also:Low Countries. See also:Early in the following See also:year he became a lieutenant-general in the Prussian service, and in command of the 3rd army corps he took part in the See also:Waterloo campaign. From 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 Ligny he retired with the See also:rest of See also:Blucher's army on See also:Wavre, and when the other corps marched towards Waterloo, Thielmann covered this See also:movement against See also:Grouchy, fighting the spirited See also:action of Wavre (See also:June 18—10. He was later a corps commander at See also:Munster and at See also:Coblenz, and at the latter See also:place he died in 1824.
See von Hutel, Biographische Skizze See also:des Generals von Tnielmannn (See also:Berlin, 1828); von Holzendorff, Beitrage zur Biographie des Generals Freiherrn von Thielmann (Dresden, 1830) ; von See also:Peters-doff, General Johann Adolf Freiherr von Thielmann (Leipzig, 1894).
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