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In June 1831, after the death of Field Marshal von Diebitsch, commander of Russian troops in Congress Poland, Paskevich was appointed his successor in crushing the Polish uprising. His armies, following the Battle of Ostrołęka in May, advanced slowly, but Paskevich redeemed his reputation at the Battle of Warsaw , giving a death blow to Polish hopes of restoring independence.
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski [c] (October 11 [ O.S. September 30] 1739 [nb 1] – October 16 [ O.S. October 5] 1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Jassy, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen.
An epaulette of a general-field marshal of the Russian Empire, c. 1912. The first [Russian] Field Marshal's baton, the emblem of this high military rank, was given to Count Fedor Golovin in 1700. In the 19th century, during the reign of Alexander I of Russia (1801-1825), only four Russian Generals and the Duke of Wellington received the coveted ...
Field marshal ( FM) has been the highest rank in the British Army since 1736. A five-star rank with NATO code OF-10, it is equivalent to an Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy or a Marshal of the Royal Air Force in the Royal Air Force (RAF). A Field Marshal's insignia consists of two crossed batons surrounded by yellow leaves below the Tudor ...
History of the rank. On 17 July 1975, Idi Amin, President of Uganda and the commander-in-chief of the country's military at the time, the Uganda Army (UA), awarded himself the rank of field marshal. [1] [2] Officially, the rank was given to Amin by the Defence Council (which he himself chaired). Amin was then decorated with the rank insignia by ...
KUTUZOV, MIKHAILKUTUZOV, MIKHAIL (1745–1813), Russian field marshal. Source for information on Kutuzov, Mikhail: Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire dictionary.
Austrian Empire: 1813–1814: Generalissimo of the Armies of the Habsburg Empire and senior Field Marshal of the combined forces of the Sixth Coalition. He led the largest Allied field army, the Army of Bohemia, during the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and the Invasion of France in early 1814. Kim Il Sung: Korean People's Army North Korea: 1992 ...
