See also:IVAN FEDOROVICH See also:PASKEVICH (1782-1856)
, See also:count of See also:Erivan, See also:prince of See also:Warsaw, See also:Russian 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, descended from an old and wealthy See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Poltava on the
19th (8th) of May 1782
.
He was educated at the imperial
institution for pages, where his progress was rapid, and in
1800 received his See also:commission in the See also:Guards and was named aide-de-See also:camp to the See also:tsar
.
His first active service was in 1805, in the See also:auxiliary See also:army sent to the assistance of See also:Austria against See also:France, when he took See also:part in the See also:battle of See also:Austerlitz
.
From x8o7 to 1812 he was engaged in the See also:campaigns against See also:Turkey, and distinguished himself by many brilliant and daring exploits, being made a See also:general officer in his thirtieth See also:year
.
During the See also:French See also:War of 1812—14 he was See also:present, in command of the 26th See also:division of See also:infantry, at all the most important engagements; at the battle of See also:Leipzig he won promotion to the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-general
.
On the outbreak of war with See also:Persia in 1826 he was appointed second in command, and, succeeding in the following year to the See also:chief command, gained rapid and brilliant successes which compelled the shah to See also:sue for See also:peace in See also:February
1828
.
In See also:reward of his services he was named by the See also:emperor count of Erivan, and received a million of roubles and a See also:diamond-mounted See also:sword
.
From Persia he was sent to Turkey in See also:Asia, and, having captured in rapid See also:succession the See also:principal fortresses, he was at the end of the See also:campaign made a field marshal at the See also:age of See also:forty-seven
.
In 183o he subdued the mountaineers of See also:Daghestan
.
In 1831 he was entrusted with the command of the army sent to suppress the revolt of See also:Poland, and after the fall of Warsaw, which gave the See also:death-See also:blow to See also:Polish See also:independence, he was raised to the dignity of prince of Warsaw, and created See also:viceroy of the See also:kingdom of Poland
.
On the outbreak of the insurrection of See also:Hungary in 1848 he was appointed to the command of the Russian troops sent to the aid of Austria, and finally compelled the surrender of the Hungarians at Vilfigos
.
In See also:April 1854 he again took the field in command of the army of the See also:Danube, but on the 9th of See also:June, at See also:Silistria, where he suffered defeat, he received a contusion which compelled him to retire from active service
.
He died on the 13th (1st) of February 1856 at Warsaw, where in 1869 a memorial was erected to him
.
He held the rank of field marshal in the Prussian and See also:Austrian armies as well as in his own service
.
See See also:Tolstoy, Essai biographique et historique sur le feld-marechal Prince de Varsovie (See also:Paris, 1835) ; See also:Notice biographique sur le Marechal Paskivitch (Leipzig, 1856) ; and Prince Stcherbatov's See also:Life (St See also:Petersburg, 1888—1894)
.
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