Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
August Wilhelm Antonius Graf [1] Neidhardt von Gneisenau [2] (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 .
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher: 19 October 1813: 1742–1819 [36] Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington: 15 November 1818: 1769–1852 [37] Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf: 1821: 1762–1823 [38] Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg: 1821: 1759–1830 [39] August Neidhardt von Gneisenau: 1825: 1760–1831 [40] Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten ...
The Gneisenau Memorial on Bebelplatz green space in Berlin's Mitte district commemorates the Prussian field marshal and freedom fighter August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760–1831). Created from 1840 to 1855 by Christian Daniel Rauch in neoclassical style, it is a piece of the Berlin school of sculpture.
The German General Staff, originally the Prussian General Staff and officially the Great General Staff (German: Großer Generalstab), was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war, and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign.
Karl Georg Albrecht Ernst von Hake; Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846) Johann von Hinrichs; Karl Friedrich Bernhard Hellmuth von Hobe; Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen; Heinrich Wilhelm von Horn
At a late-night council, Blücher's chief of staff, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, had been distrustful of Wellington's strategy, but Blücher persuaded him that they should march to join Wellington's army. In the morning Wellington duly received a reply from Blücher, promising to support him with three corps.
On the first day, Blücher and his chief of staff August Neidhardt von Gneisenau became separated and did not issue orders for troop movements until late in the day, slowing down the Allied advance. [8] The French resistance grew in intensity, the Allied night marches multiplied owing to constant combat and delays, and the weather turned atrocious.
Gneisenau therefore initially ordered a retreat directly north on Tilly, which would maintain that contact". [33] However, Parkinson, citing Prussian records, claims Gneisenau "raged" over the lack of British support at Ligny and decided to retreat east after Tilly: "And slowly, fatefully, Gneisenau's choice of retreat route swung towards Liege ...