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Frederick William von Blücher (Danish: Frederik Vilhelm von Blücher; German: Friedrich Wilhelm von Blücher; 14 January 1760 — 16 May 1806) was a Danish Chamberlain, Lieutenant Colonel, Commander of the Royal Hourse Guards, the Adjutant-General to former Hereditary Prince Frederick and Hofmarschall.
In 1773, Blücher was forced to resign by Frederick the Great for insubordination. He worked as a farmer until the death of Frederick in 1786, when Blücher was reinstated and promoted to colonel. For his success in the French Revolutionary Wars, Blücher became a major general in 1794.
17 giu 2015 · Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (his British admirers seldom wrote and probably never pronounced the umlaut) had enjoyed a long and successful military career, despite over a decade of enforced retirement after he got on the wrong side of Frederick the Great.
voci di militari presenti su Wikipedia. Manuale. Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, I principe di Wahlstatt ( Rostock, 16 dicembre 1742 – Krieblowitz, 12 settembre 1819 ), è stato un nobile e generale prussiano, con il grado di feldmaresciallo .
An uncomplicated, energic and outspoken leader, oblivious to personal danger, he has a place in German popular culture comparable with that of Wellington in Britain. Blücher was said by General Scharnhorst to be the only man who did not fear Napoleon. He was born near Rostock (Prussia) in 1742 and was the son of a retired army captain.
Following the Prussian King Frederick William's orders of mobilisation, Blücher sends out a memo for the administrative restructuring of the Prussian army and to divide it into four corps. 2 – 6 May 1815. Some soldiers in the problematic Saxon troops (mentioned above) rebel, throwing stones at Blücher's window and refusing to obey him.
Erich Eyck | Published in History Today Volume 1 Issue 9 September 1951. Captain von Blücher can go to the devil!”. This was Frederick the 'Great’s angry reply in 1773 to the petition in which Blücher,- vexed by slights to his pride, had demanded his retirement from the Prussian Army. When the same Blücher reached the end of his days, he ...
