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    Count Leopold Joseph von Daun (German: Leopold Joseph Maria, Reichsgraf von und zu Daun; 24 September 1705 – 5 February 1766), later Prince of Thiano...
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  • Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Kreis Daun, the former name of the district Vulkaneifel in Germany People with the surname Count Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705–1766), Austrian...
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    Austrian army commanded by Prince Charles of Lorraine and Count Leopold Joseph von Daun. Frederick used maneuver warfare and knowledge of the terrain to...
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    footballer Count Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705 – 1766), Austrian field marshal from the Holy Roman Empire noble family originating in Daun. Martina Knichel:...
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    Nostitz-Rieneck, who was her sisters son in law; no issue ⚭ Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Prince of Teano; had issue Countess Maria Ernestina Rosalia Fuchs...
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    Having isolated Schweidnitz from the main Austrian field army under Leopold Joseph von Daun, siege works were begun and a major bombardment commenced on 9...
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    military leader, and he was replaced by Leopold Joseph von Daun, Franz Moritz von Lacy and Ernst Gideon von Laudon. Frederick himself was startled by...
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    the Austrian court, Montazet, whose memorandum was used by Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in January 1758 in a letter to the Empress Maria Theresa to press...
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    Jahrbücher 39 (1877) Karl Linnebach, 'Reichskriegsverfassung und Reichsarmee von 1648 bis 1806' in Karl Linnebach, Deutsche Heeresgeschichte (Hamburg 1943...
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    Prague – 17 March 1891, Vienna) was an Austrian General. Count Leopold Joseph von Daun (or Dhaun) (24 September 1705 – 5 February 1766), later Prince...
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  • 1667 – Jean-Louis Lully, French composer (d. 1688) 1705 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766) 1717 – Horace Walpole, English...
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    refused to believe that the typically cautious Austrian commander Leopold von Daun would bring his troops into battle. The Austrian force ambushed his...
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  • in the defense of Dresden against Count Leopold Joseph von Daun and was promoted to Generalmajor. After Daun had lifted his camp before Dresden on 16...
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    the replacement of the hesitant field marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun by Ernst Gideon von Laudon, however, a decisive victory was not achieved...
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    the rising Prussians. Charles and his second in command, Count Leopold Joseph von Daun were "sunk in the depths of despondency", and the prince could...
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    of Daun and Lacy. The student of the later campaigns of the Seven Years' War will probably admit that there was need of more aggressiveness than Daun displayed...
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    It was originally built for Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, the garrison commander whose son Leopold became a Field Marshal of Empress Maria Theresa. The...
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    significant expansion of Austria's field armies. Field Marshal Leopold Joseph von Daun standardised the army's equipment and professionalised its training...
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    Count Peter von Lacy and was a famous Austrian field marshal. He served during the reign of Maria Theresa and was a close friend to Joseph II, Holy Roman...
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    usually not trained for or assigned to a specific task. Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, in a letter to Empress Maria Theresa in January 1758, pressed...
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    January 21 – James Quin, English actor (b. 1693) February 5 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) February 23 – Stanisław Leszczyński...
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    monument: Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705–1766), Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller (1683–1744), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717–1790), Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg...
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    Cuirassiers. He transferred to the Daun Infantry Regiment in 1759, and under Field Marshal Leopold Joseph von Daun rose to the position of Wing Adjutant...
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  • Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678) 1766 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) 1775 – Eusebius Amort, German...
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  • and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: The...
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  • who gave the first commander of the academy, Field Marshal Leopold Joseph von Daun (Count Daun), the order Mach er mir tüchtige Officier und rechtschaffene...
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    officially named after the 18th-century Field Marshal Leopold Joseph von Daun as Daun barracks. Today the Daun barracks is run as a school battalion with two...
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    long march over 12 days. Charles and his second in command, Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, sank "in the depths of despondency", and the Prince could not...
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  • Philipp Wirich Lorenz von Daun zu Sassenheim und Callenborn (11 June 1720 – 20 November 1763) was a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served...
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    Theresa Monarch – Joseph II November 2 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858) February 5 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field...
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