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See also:WIMPFFEN, See also:EMMANUEL See also:FELIX DE (1811-1884) , See also:French
soldier. Entering the See also:army from the military school of St Cyr, he saw considerable active service in See also:Algeria, and in 184o became See also:captain, in 1847 chef de bataillon. He first earned marked distinction in the See also:Crimean See also:War as See also:colonel of a Turco See also:regiment, and his conduct at the See also:storm of the Mamelon won him the grade of See also:general of See also:brigade. In the See also:campaign of 1859 he was with General See also:MacMahon at See also:Magenta at the See also:head of a brigade of Guard See also:Infantry, and again won promotion 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 See also:battle. Between this campaign and that of 187o he was mainly employed in Algeria, and was not at first given a command in the See also:ill-fated " Army of the See also:Rhine." But when the earlier battles revealed incapacity in the See also:commander of the 5th See also:corps, De Wimpffen was ordered to take it over, and was given a dormant See also:commission appointing him to command the Army of Chalons in See also:case of See also:Marshal MacMahon's disablement. He only arrived at the front in 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 to rally the fugitives of the 5th corps, beaten at See also:Beaumont, and to See also:march them to See also:Sedan. In the disastrous battle of the 1st of See also:September, MacMahon was soon wounded, and the See also:senior officer, General Ducrot, assumed the command. Ducrot was beginning to withdraw the troops when Wimpffen produced his commission and countermanded 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* In consequence it See also:fell to him to negotiate the surrender of the whole French army. After his See also:release from captivity, he lived in retirement at See also:Algiers, and died at See also:Paris in 1884. His later years were occupied with polemical discussions on the surrender of Sedan, the responsibility for which was laid upon him.
He wrote, amongst other See also:works, Sedan (1871), La Situation de la See also:France, et See also:les reformes'necessaires (1873) and La Nation armee
(1875).
End of Article: WIMPFFEN, EMMANUEL FELIX DE (1811-1884)
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