Gneisenau, August, Graf Neithardt von (ou`g
st gräf nīt`härt fən gənī`zənou), 1760–1831, Prussian field marshal. In the Napoleonic Wars he fought at Jena (1806) and, as a major, won fame for his valiant defense of Kolberg. After Prussia's capitulation to Napoleon I (1807), he served with General von Scharnhorst Scharnhorst, Gerhard Johann David von (gĕr`härt yō`hän dä`vēt fən shärn`hôrst)
..... Click the link for more information. on the military reorganization commission and helped reform the defeated Prussian army. The army's leading strategist during Prussia's War of Liberation against the French (1813–15), he was chief of staff to the commander of the army, Blücher Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von (gĕp`härt lā`bərĕkht fən blü`khər)
..... Click the link for more information. . He retired from active service in 1816, when the need for military reform had passed, but returned to lead an expedition against the Polish insurrection, in which he was killed.
st gräf nīt`härt fən gənī`zənou), 1760–1831, Prussian field marshal. In the Napoleonic Wars he fought at Jena (1806) and, as a major, won fame for his valiant defense of Kolberg. After Prussia's capitulation to Napoleon I (1807), he served with General von Scharnhorst Scharnhorst, Gerhard Johann David von (gĕr`härt yō`hän dä`vēt fən shärn`hôrst)..... Click the link for more information. on the military reorganization commission and helped reform the defeated Prussian army. The army's leading strategist during Prussia's War of Liberation against the French (1813–15), he was chief of staff to the commander of the army, Blücher Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von (gĕp`härt lā`bərĕkht fən blü`khər)
..... Click the link for more information. . He retired from active service in 1816, when the need for military reform had passed, but returned to lead an expedition against the Polish insurrection, in which he was killed.
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