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    Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (27 December 1796 – 2 August 1877) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall. He was born at Eisenach and joined the army of Prussia...
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    Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (26 October 1768 in Silesia – 11 March 1837 in Potsdam) was a Prussian officer and cartographer who fought in the Napoleonic...
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    Privat. On 18 August, the Prussian First Army under General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz launched its VII and VIII Corps in repeated assaults against...
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  • photographer Jürgen Steinmetz, German guitarist Karl Friedrich Franciscus von Steinmetz (1768–1837), Prussian officer Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796–1877)...
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    Army at the Battle of Trautenau in 1866, and a colleague of Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz. He made his military career from Oberst (1851), Major general...
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    Karl Friedrich May (/maɪ/ MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels...
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  • Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 978-0275991852. Muffling, Karl F. V. (1997). The Memoirs of Baron von Müffling: A Prussian Officer In the Napoleonic Wars....
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    chief of staff of the First Army, commanded by Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz and later by Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel. However as his health declined, Sperling...
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    First of 60,000 men under Von Steinmetz, on the Moselle below Trier; the Second of 130,000 men, under Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, around Homburg...
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    August Karl Friedrich Christian von Goeben (10 December 1816 – 13 November 1880), was a Prussian infantry general, who won the Iron Cross for his service...
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    Brigade, which was in turn part of the First Army under General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz. He saw combat in that war with the Battle of Borny–Colombey...
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  • Prussian Minister of War (1850–1851) Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1857–1863) - later a Generalfeldmarschall Julius von Verdy du Vernois (1883–1887) - military...
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    27 – John Frost, British Chartist leader (b. 1784) August 2 – Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Prussian field marshal Urdu (b. 1796) August 8 – William Lovett...
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    scene for Steinmetz to advance on Skalitz (Česká Skalice) where he defeated Archduke Leopold. Having been beaten the previous day by Steinmetz at Náchod...
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    action of the Austro-Prussian War. The advance guard of General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz's 5th Corps occupied some high ground near Náchod as part of a...
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    Generals August von Gneisenau, Karl von Grolman, and Hermann von Boyen as well as the civilian vom Steinen. Prussian military officer, Carl von Clausewitz...
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    Theophil von Podbielski's argument that the French would not fight east of Metz, ordered the First Army under General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz to move...
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    municipal organist at the Church of St. Georg in Eisenach Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796–1877), Prussian field marshall Hermann Hahn (born 1841),...
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    Sincerité, from November 17, 1705; and from 1712 to 12/18/1726. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (5/12/1712 – 8/3/1757), revived...
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    Urdu (d. 1869) Franciszek Pfanhauser, Polish painter (d. 1865) Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877) December 29 William B. Calhoun...
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    Edwin Karl Rochus Freiherr von Manteuffel (24 February 1809 – 17 June 1885) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall noted for his victories in the Franco-Prussian...
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    1st Army under Steinmetz advanced west from Saarbrücken. Early on the 6th, a patrol from the German 2nd Army under Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia spotted...
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  • their number in casualties. 6 August – Battle of Spicheren – Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz soundly defeats a French army of 21,000, further driving the...
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  • von Steinmetz General der Kavallerie Louis von Mutius General der Infanterie Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld Chief of Staff: Colonel Ludwig von Schlotheim...
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  • Commanding General: General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz Chief of Staff: Oberst Ludwig von Wittich Commander of Artillery: Oberst Karl von Kraewel Commander of...
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    accompanied by Prinz Eitel Friedrich and several colliers, then departed the central Pacific, bound for Chile. On 13 August, Commodore Karl von Müller, captain of...
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    SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse was a German pre-dreadnought battleship of the Kaiser Friedrich III class, built around the turn of the 20th century for the...
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    emperors. The ships were Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Kaiser Barbarossa, and Kaiser Karl der Grosse, all built between...
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    Bazaine was blocked when the French encountered the First Army under von Steinmetz. The outcome of the battle itself was indecisive as although the French...
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  • von Schellendorff; Oberstleutnant Julius von Verdy du Vernois; Oberstleutnant Karl von Brandenstein Commander: General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (later...
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