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See also:KITCHENER, HORATIO See also:HERBERT KITCHENER, See also:VISCOUNT (1850- ) , See also:British 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, was the son of Lieut.-See also:Colonel H. H. Kitchener and was See also:born at Bally See also:Longford, Co. See also:Kerry, on the 24th of See also:June 1850. He entered the Royal Military See also:Academy, See also:Woolwich, in 1868, and was commissioned second See also:lieutenant, Royal See also:Engineers, in 1871. As a subaltern he was employed in survey See also:work in See also:Cyprus and See also:Palestine, and on promotion to See also:captain in 1883 was attached to the See also:Egyptian See also:army, then in course of re-organization under British See also:officers. In the following See also:year he served on the See also:staff of the British expeditionary force on the See also:Nile, and was promoted successively See also:major and lieutenant-colonel by See also:brevet for his services. From 1886 to 1888 he was commandant at See also:Suakin, commanding and receiving a severe See also:wound in the See also:action of Handub in 1888. In 1888 he commanded a See also:brigade in the actions of Gamaizieh and Toski. From 1889 to 1892 he served as See also:adjutant-See also:general of the army. He had become brevet-colonel in the British army in 1888, and
See also:KITE
he received the C.B. in 1889 after the action of Toski. In 1892 Colonel Kitchener succeeded See also:Sir See also:Francis (See also:Lord) Grenfell as See also:sirdar of the Egyptian army, and three years later, when he had completed his predecessor's work of re-organizing the forces of the See also:khedive, he began the formation of an expeditionary force on the vexed military frontier of Wady See also:Haifa. The advance into the See also:Sudan (see See also:EGYPT, Military Operations) was prepared by thorough administrative work on his See also:part which gained universal admiration. In 1896 Kitchener won the action of Ferket (June 7) and advanced the frontier and the railway to See also:Dongola. In 1897 Sir See also:Archibald See also:Hunter's victory of See also:Abu Hamed (Aug. 7) carried the Egyptian See also:flag one See also:stage farther, and in 1898 the resolve to destroy the See also:Mandi's See also:power was openly indicated by the despatch of a British force to co-operate with the Egyptians. The sirdar, who in 1896 became a British major-general and received the K.C.B., commanded the See also:united force, which stormed the Mandist zareba on the See also:river See also:Atbara on the 8th of See also:April, and, the outposts being soon afterwards advanced to Metemmeh and Shendy, the British force was augmented to the strength of a See also:division for the final advance on See also:Khartum. Kitchener's work was crowned and the power of the Mandists utterly destroyed by the victory of See also:Omdurman (See also:Sept. 2), for which he was raised to the See also:peerage as See also:Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, received the G.C.B., the thanks of See also:parliament and a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of £30,000. Little more than a year afterwards, while still sirdar of the Egyptian army, he was promoted lieutenant-general and appointed chiefof-staff to Lord See also:Roberts in the See also:South See also:African See also:War (see See also:TRANSVAAL, See also:History). In this capacity he served in the See also:campaign of Paardeberg, the advance on See also:Bloemfontein and the subsequent northward advance to See also:Pretoria, and on Lord Roberts' return to See also:England in See also:November I90o succeeded him as See also:commander-inchief, receiving at the same 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 the See also:local See also:rank of general. In June 1902 the See also:long and harassing war came to its See also:close, and Kitchener was rewarded by See also:advancement to the dignity of viscount, promotion to the substantive rank of general " for distinguished service," the thanks of parliament and a grant of X50,000. He was also included in 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 of Merit.
Immediately after the See also:peace he went to See also:India as commanderin-See also:chief in the See also:East Indies, and in this position, which he held for seven years, he carried out not only many far-reaching administrative reforms but a See also:complete re-organization and strategical redistribution of the British and native forces. On leaving India in 1909 he was promoted field marshal, and succeeded the See also:duke of See also:Connaught as commander-in-chief and high See also:commissioner in the Mediterranean. This See also:post, not of See also:great importance in itself, was regarded as a virtual command of the colonial as distinct from the See also:home and the See also:Indian forces, and on his See also:appointment Lord Kitchener (after a visit to See also:Japan) undertook a tour of inspection of the forces of the See also:empire, and went to See also:Australia and New See also:Zealand in order to assist in See also:drawing up local schemes of See also:defence. In this See also:mission he was highly successful, and earned See also:golden opinions. But soon after his return to England in April 1910 he declined to take up his Mediterranean appointment, owing to his dislike of its inadequate See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope, and he was succeeded in June by Sir Ian See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton.
End of Article: KITCHENER, HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER, VISCOUNT (1850- )
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