See also:

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

COLONEL (derived either from See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. See also:

• CORONA (Lat. for " crown ")

corona, a See also:

• CROWN

crown)  , the See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior officer of a See also:

• REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment of See also:

• INFANTRY

infantry or See also:

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

cavalry.; also an officer of corresponding See also:

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

rank in the See also:

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

general See also:

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

army See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list . The colonelcy of a regiment formerly implied a proprietary, right in it . Whether the See also:

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

colonel commanded it directly in 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 or not, he always superintended its See also:

• FINANCE

finance and interior See also:

• ECONOMY

economy, and the emoluments of the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, in the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, were often the only See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of pay See also:

• DRAWN

drawn by general See also:

• OFFICERS

officers . The general officers of the 17th and 18th centuries were invariably colonels of regiments, and in this See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case the active command was exercised by the See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant-colonels . At the See also:

• PRESENT

present 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, See also:

• BRITISH

British general officers are often, though not always, given the colonelcy of a regiment, which has become almost purely an honorary office . The See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign, See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign sovereigns, royal princes and others, hold honorary colonelcies, as colonels-in-See also:

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

chief or honorary colonels of many regiments . In other armies, the regiment being a fighting unit, the colonel is its active See also:

• COMMANDER

commander ; in See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain the lieutenant-colonel commands in the field the See also:

• BATTALION

battalion of infantry and the regiment of cavalry . Colonels are actively employed in the army at large in See also:

• STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff appointments, See also:

• BRIGADE (Fr. and Ger. brigade, Ital. brigata, Span. brigada; the English use of the word dates from the early 17th century)

brigade commands, &c. extra-regimentally . Colonel-general, a rank formerly used in many armies, still survives in the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German service, a colonel-general (General-Oberst) ranking between a general of infantry, cavalry or See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery, and a general field See also:

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

marshal (General-Feldmarschall) . Colonels-general are usually given the honorary rank of general field marshal .