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Moltke

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Moltke
1. Count Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von . 1848--1916, German general; chief of the German general staff (1906--14)
2. his uncle Count Helmuth Karl Bernhard von . 1800--91, German field marshal; chief of the Prussian general staff (1858--88)


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I had trained them in military discipline and in so much of the art of war as I had gleaned from extensive read-ing of the campaigns of Napoleon, Von Moltke, Grant, and the ancients.
It was doing for the forty or fifty Bell Companies what Von Moltke did for the German army prior to the Franco-Prussian War.
Von Sternberg was the Moltke of this War in the Air, but it was the curious hard romanticism of Prince Karl Albert that won over the hesitating Emperor to the scheme.
 
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