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See also:WADE, See also:GEORGE (1673-1748) , See also:British 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 the son of See also:Jerome Wade of Kilavally, See also:Westmeath, and entered the British See also:army in 169o. He was See also:present at Steinkirk in 1692, and in 1695 he became See also:captain. In 1702 he served in See also:Marlborough's army, earning particular distinction at the See also:assault on the citadel of See also:Liege, and in 1703 he became successively See also:major and See also:lieutenant See also:colonel in his See also:regiment (later the loth See also:Foot). In 1704, with the temporary See also:rank of colonel, he served on See also:Lord See also:Galway's See also:staff in See also:Portugal. Wade distinguished himself at the See also:siege of See also:Alcantara in 1706, in a rearguard See also:action at See also:Villa Nova in the same autumn (in which, according to Galway, his two battalions repulsed twenty-two allied squadrons), and at the disastrous See also:battle of Almanza on the 25th of See also:April 1707. He had now risen to the command of a See also:brigade, and on the following 1st of See also:January (1707/8) he was promoted brigadier-See also:general in the British army. His next service was as second in command to See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James (1st See also:earl) See also:Stanhope in the expedition to See also:Minorca in 1708. In 1710 he was again with the See also:main Anglo-allied army in See also:Spain, and took See also:part in the See also:great battle of See also:Saragossa on the loth of See also:August, after which he was promoted major-general and given a command at See also:home. The Jacobite outbreak of 1715 brought him into prominence in the new role of military See also:governor. He twice detected important Jacobite conspiracies, and on the second occasion procured the See also:arrest of the See also:Swedish See also:ambassador in See also:London, See also:Count Gyllenborg. In 1719 he was second in command of the See also:land forces in the successful " conjunct " military and See also:naval expedition to See also:Vigo. In 1724 he was sent to the See also:Highlands to make a thorough investigation of the See also:country and its See also:people, and two years later, having meantime been appointed See also:commander-in-See also:chief to give effect to his own recommendations, he began the See also:system of metalled roads which is his chief See also:title to fame, and is commemorated in the lines
" Had you seen these roads before they were made,
You would lift up your hands and bless General Wade."
In the course of this See also:engineering See also:work Wade superintended the construction of no less than 40 See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:bridges. 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, slowly and with the tact that came of See also:long experience, he disarmed the clans. In 1742 he was made a privy councillor and lieutenant-general of the See also:ordnance, and in 1743 field marshal. In this See also:year he commanded the British contingent in See also:Flanders, and was associated in the supreme command with the See also:duke d'See also:Aremberg, the See also:leader of the See also:Austrian contingent. The See also:campaign, as was to be expected when the enemy was of one nation, See also:superior in See also:numbers and led by See also:Saxe, was a failure, and Wade, who was seventy years of See also:age and in See also:bad See also:health, resigned the command in See also:March 1744. George II. promptly made him commander-in-chief in See also:England, and in that capacity Field Marshal Wade had to See also:deal with the Jacobite insurrection of 1745, in which he was utterly baffled by the perplexing rapidity of See also:Prince See also:Charles See also:Edward's See also:marches. On the See also:appointment of the duke of See also:Cumberland as commander-in-chief of the forces, Wade retired. He died on the 14th of March 1748.
End of Article: WADE, GEORGE (1673-1748)
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