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August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (27 October 1760 – 23 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the reform of the Prussian military and the War of Liberation.
August, Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau was a Prussian field marshal and reformer, one of the key figures in rebuilding and reorganizing the Prussian army shattered by Napoleon in 1806 and the architect of its victory during the wars of liberation (1813–15). Of impoverished noble parentage, Gneisenau.
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August Wilhelm Anton Neidhardt (ursprünglich: Neithardt), ab 1783 Neidhardt von Gneisenau, ab 1814 Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (* 27. Oktober 1760 in Schildau ; † 23. August 1831 in Posen ) war ein preußischer Feldmarschall , Heeresreformer und Befreiungskämpfer .
Gneisenau (1760-1832) was a Saxon-born officer who served in the Prussian army and fought against the French in 1806 and 1813. He modernised the Prussian army with Scharnhorst and led Blücher's army in the Waterloo campaign.
Ein umfassender Artikel über das Leben und Wirken des preußischen Generalfeldmarschalls, der mit Scharnhorst die Reform des Militärs vorantrieb. Erfahren Sie mehr über seine Herkunft, seine Ausbildung, seine militärischen Erfolge, seine Freundschaften und seine Familie.
Whilst in London, von Gneisenau met with the dispossessed Duke of Brunswick who offered him the command of his corps which had just escaped to Britain; Gneisenau refused. He returned to Prussia via Sweden and was at home in Kauffungen by 10 June 1810.
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August Gneisenau, Graf Neithardt von (ou´gŏŏst 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.
