See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

COUNT VON LEVIN See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

AUGUST See also:

• COUNT VON LEVIN AUGUST BENNIGSEN (1745–1826)
• BENNIGSEN, RUDOLF VON (1824–1902)

BENNIGSEN (1745–1826)  , See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, of Hanoverian See also:

• FAMILY

family, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the loth of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1745 in See also:

• BRUNSWICK
• BRUNSWICK (Ger. Braunschweig)
• BRUNSWICK, KARL WILHELM FERDINAND, DUKE OF (1735-18o6)

Brunswick, and served successively as a See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page at the Hanoverian See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court and as an officer of See also:

• FOOT

foot-See also:

• GUARDS, AND HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

guards . He retired from the Hanoverian See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army in 1764, and in 1773 entered the Russian service as a 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 officer . He fought against the See also:

• TURKS

Turks in 1774 and in 1778, becoming See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant-See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

colonel in the latter See also:

• YEAR

year . In 1787 his conduct at the storming of Oczakov won him promotion to the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of brigadier, and he distinguished himself repeatedly in the See also:

• POLISH

Polish See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War of 1793–1794 and in the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian War of 1796 . The See also:

• PART

part played by See also:

• BENNIGSEN, LEVIN AUGUST, COUNT VON (1745–1826)
• BENNIGSEN, RUDOLF VON (1824–1902)

Bennigsen in the actual assassination of the See also:

• TSAR, or CZAR

tsar See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul I. is not fully known, but he took a most active See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the formation and conduct of the See also:

• CONSPIRACY (from Lat. conspirare, literally to breathe together, to agree, combine, and especially to form a secret plot)

conspiracy . See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander I. made him See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor-general of Lithuania in 18oi, and in 1802 a general of See also:

• CAVALRY (Fr. cavalerie, Ger. Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat. caballus, horse)

cavalry . In 1806 he was in command of one of the Russian armies operating against See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon, when he fought the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of See also:

• PULTUSK

Pultusk and met the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor in See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person in the sanguinary battle of See also:

• EYLAU (Preussisch-Eylau)

Eylau (8th of February 1807) . Here he could claim to have inflicted the first See also:

• REVERSE

reverse suffered by Napoleon, but six months later Bennigsen met with the crushing defeat of See also:

• FRIEDLAND

Friedland (14th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1807) the See also:

• DIRECT

direct consequence of which was the treaty of See also:

• TILSIT

Tilsit . Bennigsen now retired for some years, but in the See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign of 1812 he reappeared in the army in various responsible positions . He was See also:

• PRESENT

present at See also:

• BORODINO

Borodino, and defeated See also:

• MURAT, JOACHIM (1767—1815)

Murat in the engagement of Tarutino, but on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of a See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel with See also:

• MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

Marshal See also:

• KUTUSOV [GoLENISHCHEV-KUTUSOV], MIKHAIL LARIONOVICH, PRINCE OF SMOLENSK (1745-1813)

Kutusov, the Russian See also:

• COMMANDER

commander-in-See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief, he was compelled to retire from active military employment . After the See also:

• DEATH

death of Kutusov he was recalled and placed at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of an army . Bennigsen led one of the columns which made the decisive attack on the last See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day of the battle of See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig (16th-19th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1813) .

On the same evening he was made a See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count by the emperor Alexander I., and he afterwards commanded the forces which operated against Marshal See also:

• DAVOUT, LOUIS NICOLAS

Davout in See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany . After the general See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace he held a command from 1815 to 1818, when he retired from active service and settled on his Hanoverian See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate of Banteln near See also:

• HILDESHEIM

Hildesheim . Count Bennigsen died on the 3rd of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1826 . His son, ALEXANDER LEVIN, count von Bennigsen( 8o9–1893) ,was a distinguishedHanoverian statesman .