FERDINAND, Prussian Field Marshal

1721–92, Prussian field marshal, a prince of the house of Brunswick, known as Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick. He served King Frederick II of Prussia brilliantly in the Seven Years War, notably by his victories at Krefeld (1758) and Minden (1759).

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books on: Ferdinand Prussian Field Marshal  - 62 results

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The Memoirs of Marshal Foch
Book by T. Bentley Mott, Marshal Ferdinand Foch; Doubleday, Doran and company, Incorporated, 1931
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front
Prunay, 108 . Prussia, xlviii , l . Prussian Guard, 83 . Puisalene, 328 . Puisieulx, 110 . Pulnoy...Riga, 248 . Robaix, 430 . Robecq, 295 , 353 . Roberts, Field Marshal Earl, 182 . Roberts, Lady Edwina, 182 . Robertson, General...
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The Emperor's Friend: Marshal Jean Lannes
Book by Margaret Scott Chrisawn; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Ambassadors--France--Biography, France--Armee--History--Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Lannes, Jean--Duc De Montebello--1769-1809, Marshals--France--Biography, Napoleon--I--Emperor Of The French--1769-1821--Friends And Associates, Napoleon--I--Emperor Of The French--1769-1821--Relations With Marshals
...70, 172-73 Soult, Marshal Nicolas, 119-20...Friedland, 160, 163-64; Prussian campaign, 136, 138...Wintzingerode, General Ferdinand, 117 7 Wrede, General...von, 216 6 Wurmser, Field Marshal Dagobert, 26- 27...
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For King and Kaiser! The Making of the Prussian Army Officer, 1860-1914
Book by Steven E. Clemente; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Civil-Military Relations--Germany--History--19th Century, Civil-Military Relations--Germany--History--20th Century, Germany--Heer--Officers--Education--History, Military Education--Germany--History--19th Century, Military Education--Germany--History--20th Century, Military Education--Germany--Prussia--History--19th Century, Prussia (Kingdom)--Armee--Officers--Education--History--19th Century
...1948 , German Field Marshal and army commander...von 1780-1831 , Prussian general and military...von 1853- 1934 , Prussian general and Minister...Friedrich von, Prussian general, 177 - 79, 188 Foch, Ferdinand 1851- 1929 , Marshal...
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Bismarck, the Hohenzollern Candidacy, and the Origins of the Franco-German War of 1870
Book by Lawrence D. Steefel; Harvard University Press, 1962
Subjects: Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Causes
...persuaded him to urge Ferdinand to accept the Spanish...eventual heir of King Ferdinand. During the summer...and called at the Prussian Legation to find...Saldanha to King Ferdinand , Paris, Sept...Memoirs of the Field Marshal the Duke of Saldanha...
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Bismarck, the Hohenzollern Candidacy, and the Origins of the Franco-German War of 1870
Book by Lawrence D. Steefel; Harvard University Press, 1962
Subjects: Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Causes
...persuaded him to urge Ferdinand to accept the Spanish...eventual heir of King Ferdinand. During the summer...and called at the Prussian Legation to find...Saldanha to King Ferdinand, Paris, Sept...Memoirs of the Field Marshal the Duke of Saldanha...
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journal articles on: Ferdinand Prussian Field Marshal  - 3 results

 
 
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Stalingrad: an Examination of Hitler's Decision to Airlift
Journal article by Joel S. A Hayward; Airpower Journal, Vol. 11, 1997
Subjects: Airlifts, Germany-pre-1945, Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945), Military engagements, Military strategy, Stalingrad USSR-pre-1961, World War II
...Generalmajor Ferdinand Heims LXVIII...trust, the field marshal was...tell the field marshal to expect reinforcements...at his East Prussian headquarters...commanders in the field. Von Richthofen...advisers that the field marshals assessment was...
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Second Journey Abroad
Journal article; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, 2007
Subjects: Dashkova, Ekaterina Romanovna, Education, Marriage, Royalty, Russian history, Women
...heros welcome accorded Field-Marshal Rumiantsev in 1775 in...outside of Naples, Ferdinand IV, king of Naples...the maneuvers of the Prussian troops.48 As a rule...Petersburg; Johann Formey, Prussian man of letters and secretary...
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The Writer's Responsibility in France: From Flaubert to Sartre (1)
Journal article by Gisele Sapiro; French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 25, 2007
Subjects: Authors, French--Ethical aspects, Authors, French--Social aspects, Authors, French--Works, Flaubert, Gustave--Ethical aspects, Flaubert, Gustave--Works, French writers--Ethical aspects, French writers--Social aspects, French writers--Works, Sartre, Jean-Paul--Ethical aspects, Sartre, Jean-Paul--Works, Social responsibility--Analysis
...contradictions faced by literary field regarding the question...event that catapulted Marshal Petain to the head of...moralism on the literary field. In order to legitimate...passed the blame on to Marshal Petain: "Comment un...around which the literary field restructured. It also...


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magazine articles on: Ferdinand Prussian Field Marshal  - 2 results

 
 
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Admiral Karl Donitz & Hitler's Legacy of Shame
Magazine article by Blaine Taylor; Sea Classics, Vol. 33, February 2000
...appointment, Field Marshals (Fedor) von...Plon: Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner...appointed Field Marshal of the war...troops of Field Marshal Bernard L...Army, whose Prussian forebears had...invite the Field Marshals special attention...
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Napoleon the Kingmaker
Magazine article by Philip Mansel; History Today, Vol. 48, March 1998
Subjects: Europe--History, Monarchy--France, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Evaluation
...before the Salle des Consuls, field officers into the third...members of his family, his marshals or their relations, with...Stael; Baron von Stein the Prussian reformer; Baron von Armfelt...blood connections to what Marshal Bernadotte called `the family...his brother the Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany); The island...


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newspaper articles on: Ferdinand Prussian Field Marshal  - 3 results

 
 
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WONDER WARLORDS; Battle over List of the World's 100 Top Generals
Newspaper article by Adrian Shaw; The Mirror (London, England), September 16, 1997
...military leader. Field Marshal Montgomery...saved by the Prussians. Napoleon...1800-1891. Prussian marshal. 40...marshal. 71 Ferdinand Foch, 1851...1913. British field marshal who modernised...1832-1914. Field marshal who...
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1000 Years. 1000 People; IT'S THE ULTIMATE AND MOST CONTROVERSIAL LIST OF THE MILLENNIUM: 1000 PEOPLE WHO, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, HAVE CHANGED HISTORY IN THE PAST 1000 YEARS. IT WAS AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK, BUT OF ALL THE CONTENDERS, WE FINALLY PUT THE DISCOVERER OF PENICILLIN, SCOTSMAN SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING, ON TOP .. BECAUSE WITHOUT HIM SO MANY OF US WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HERE TO GREET THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 1, 2000
...83. Duke of Wellington, C19th field marshal and statesman 84. Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian...Hopkins, C19th English poet 111. Field Marshal Montgomery, soldier 112. Louis Bleriot...Edith Cavell, British nurse 138. Field Marshal Haig, British soldier 139. Bing Crosby...
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Funeral Marked End of the King and of an Era
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), May 18, 2010
...Among the mourners, the Archduke Ferdinand, whose assassination would bring...the carriage in the uniform of a field marshal, the Kaiser alongside. And behind...splendid in native costume along with Prussian Hussars, breast plates glinting...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ferdinand Prussian Field Marshal  - 4 results

 
 
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Ferdinand , Prussian Field Marshal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FERDINAND , Prussian field marshal 1721 92, Prussian field marshal, a prince of the house of Brunswick, known as Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick. He served King Frederick II of Prussia...
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Charles William Ferdinand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHARLES WILLIAM FERDINAND 1735 1806, duke of Brunswick (1780 1806), Prussian field marshal. He had great success...94) of the Austro-Prussian armies in the French...again commanded the Prussian armies in 1806 and was...
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World War I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary...by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 71...Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo set...the offensive of Marshal Joffre in Champagne...1917), and Field Marshal Allenby took Jerusalem...
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Napoleon I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Warsaw, created from Prussian Poland, and other...Britain left in the field, Napoleon was now...Charles IV and his son Ferdinand VII; in Naples...was replaced with Marshal Joachim Murat...Another Napoleonic marshal, Jean Bernadotte...first to desert; a Prussian truce with the czar...


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