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See also:WINDISCHGRATZ, See also:PRINCE See also:ALFRED (1787-1862) , See also:Austrian 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, entered the Austrian See also:army in 1804, participated in all the See also:wars against See also:Napoleon and fought with distinction at See also:Leipzig and in the See also:campaign of 1814. In the following years of See also:peace he held successive commands in See also:Prague, being appointed See also:head of the army in Bohemia in 1840. Having gained a reputation as a See also:champion of energetic See also:measures against revolution he was called upon to suppress the insurrection of See also:March 1848 in See also:Vienna, but finding himself See also:ill-supported by the ministers he speedily threw up his See also:post. Having returned to Prague he there showed firmness in quelling an armed outbreak of the See also:Czech separatists (See also:June 1848). Upon the recrudescence of revolt in Vienna he was summoned at the head of a large army and reduced the See also:city by a formal See also:siege (Oct..20-29). Appointed to the See also:chief command against the Hungarian rebels he gained some See also:early successes and reoccupied See also:Budapest (See also:Jan. 1849), but by his slowness in pursuit he allowed the enemy to rally in See also:superior See also:numbers and to prevent an effective concentration of the Austrian forces. In See also:April 1849 he was relieved of his command and henceforth rarely appeared again in public See also:life.
See See also:Furst Windischgreitz. Eine Lebens-Skizze. Aus den Papieren eines Zeitgenossen der See also:Sturm-Jahre 1848 and 1849 (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1898).
End of Article: WINDISCHGRATZ, PRINCE ALFRED (1787-1862)
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