KALB, JOHANN

Ger. yōˈhän kälp, 1721–80, American general in the Revolution, known generally as Baron de Kalb, b. Hüttendorf, Germany. He assumed his title for military reasons and as Jean de Kalb served France in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War. He again served France in 1768 as a secret agent in the English colonies in America. Silas Deane offered (1776) commissions to Kalb, Lafayette, and other European soldiers of fortune, which the Continental Congress at first refused to honor. Finally Kalb was made general and was with Washington at Valley Forge. In 1780 he was made second in command to Horatio Gates in the Carolina campaign, and he died (Aug. 19, 1780) from wounds received in the battle of Camden.

See A. E. Zucker, General de Kalb, Lafayette's Mentor (1966).

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The German Element in the War of American Independence
Book by George Washington Greene; Hurd & Houghton, 1876
Subjects: De Kalb, Johann--1721-1780, Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin--Baron Von--1730-1794, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--German Mercenaries
...1721, John Kalb, the child of Hans Kalb and Margaret, his wife, peasants...August, 1780, MajorGeneral Baron de Kalb died prisoner of war in the American...Leben des Amerikanischen Generals Johann Kalb. Von Friedrich Kapp, mit Kalbs Portrait...
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Dragon in the Kremlin: A Report on the Russian-Chinese Alliance
Book by Marvin L. Kalb; Dutton, 1961
Subjects: China--Foreign Relations--Russia, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--China
...DESCRIBED AS THE CITY OF romance and gaiety -- the Central European capital that danced in three-quarter time to the waltzes of Johann Strauss and sang tunes from the operettas of Franz Lehar. But in Central Europe the currents of history are as swift as the...
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The Life of Goethe - Vol. 3
Book by Albert Bielschowsky, William A. Cooper; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1912
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von--1749-1832--Biography
...i., 210 Job, i., 29 ; iii., 310 Johann, ii., 409 John Goethes amanuensis...Schiller , ii., 185 Kahlert, ii., 444 Kalb, Chamberlain von, i., 232 ff ., 262 , 279 , 290 f ., 295 , 320 Kalb, Frau von, i., 266 ; ii., 35 Kalte...
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True Christianity
Book by Johann Arndt, Peter Erb; Paulist Press, 1979
Subjects: Christian Life--Lutheran Authors, Mysticism
...Schweitzer on the four hundredth anniversary of Johann Arndts birth in 1955, "I gained from...1. Wilhelm Koepp, Johann Arndt und sein " Wahres Christentum " Berlin...112-114, etc., and cf. Friedrich Kalb, Theology of Worship in 17th-Century...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - Vol. 12
Book by Johann Jakob Herzog; Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1908
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...edification based upon the Bible; 2 the Michelians see HAHN, JOHANN MICHAEL , among whom there is a mixture of speculative-theosophical...Sakularization in Wurttemberg von 1802-10 , ib. 1902; E. Kalb , Kirchen und Sekten der Gegenwart , 2d ed., ib. 1907; C...
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A Context for Mozart's French Ariettes: The Wendling Family and Friedrich Schiller's Kabale Und Liebe
Journal article by Paul Corneilson; Current Musicology, 2006
Subjects: Composition (Music)--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatic characterization--Criticism and interpretation, Kabale und Liebe (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Criticism and interpretation, Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von--Criticism and interpretation
...where was her father, Johann Baptist? During the spring...courtiers like Chamberlain von Kalb at every court, foppish...was an open secret that Johann Baptist was upset. If...br/ Hofmarschall von Kalb -- <br/ Lady Milford...Stadtmusikant oder, wie Johann Baptist Wendling, principal...
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Alexander Von Humboldt's Image and Influence in North American Geography, 1804-2004
Journal article by Kent Mathewson; The Geographical Review, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von, Baron, Baron--Influence, Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von, Baron, Baron--Works, Naturalists--Influence, Naturalists--Works, North America--Evaluation
...69). Two decades earlier Courtenay de Kalb (1891) had questioned Humboldts projections...first visited these shores. NOTES 1. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) was...University of North Carolina Press. Kalb, C. de. 1891. The Great Amazon: Personal...
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The Global Raiders: Nationalism, Globalization and the South African Brain Drain
Journal article by Jonathan Crush; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 56, 2002
Subjects: African National Congress, Brain drain--Social aspects, Canada--Social policy, Country life--Political aspects, Country life--Social aspects, Demography--Social aspects, Emigration and immigration--Political aspects, Emigration and immigration--Social aspects, Farm life, Migrations of nations, Physicians--Behavior, Physicians--Social aspects, South Africa--Social aspects
...a highly privileged labor aristocracy. Johann Van Rooyen suggests, rather, that crime...African emigration consultancy industry, see Johann Van Rooyen, The New Great Trek: The Story...of Transnational Communities," in D. Kalb, M. van der Land and R. Staring, eds...
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Burned over Bono: U2's Rock 'N' Roll Messiah and His Religious Politic
Journal article by Chad E. Seales; Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Vol. 14, 2006
Subjects: Bono--Appreciation, Bono--Social aspects, Rock singers--Appreciation, Rock singers--Social aspects, U2 (Music group)
...Ends of Globalization: Bringing Society Back In, ed. Don Kalb (Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield, 2000), 253-72. 3 Jose...Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), 280; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities (Oxford, New York...


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EID-Still
Magazine article by Nicholas Muskovac; PSA Journal, Vol. 72, May 2006
Subjects: Photographic industry--Exhibitions
...Eloud, Nassim, Cyprus 7 8 <br/ Fenz, Johann, Austria 5 8 <br/ Ferchland, Wedigo...Christine, Germany 8 19 <br/ Gillies, Kalb, Australia 19 30 <br/ Glynn, Maureen...Thai, Vietnam 5 9 <br/ Niklosch, Johann, Austria 7 18 <br/ Niskanen, Ilkka...


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Credit a Revolutionary Struggle for Cash; Founders Battle for Funds to Keep Military Operating
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 11, 2008
Subjects: Armies--Military aspects
...little or no food, supplies or clothes, they were, according to Greene, naked as the day they were born. Baron Johann de Kalb said those who had not tasted the cruelties felt by soldiers in the war know not what it is to suffer. A private complained...


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encyclopedia articles on: Kalb Johann  - 4 results

 
 
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Kalb, Johann
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KALB, JOHANN Ger. yo han kalp, 1721 80, American general...Revolution, known generally as Baron de Kalb, b. Huttendorf, Germany. He assumed his title for military reasons and as Jean de Kalb served France in the War of the Austrian...
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De Kalb, Johann
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DE KALB, JOHANN see Kalb, Johann . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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American Revolution
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...starved men together. Among them were three of the foreign idealists who had come to aid the colonials in their struggle Johann Kalb , Baron von Steuben , and the marquis de Lafayette . At Valley Forge, Steuben trained the still-raw troops, who...
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Deane, Silas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...recruited a number of foreign officers, such as the marquis de Lafayette, Casimir Pulaski, Baron von Steuben, and Johann De Kalb. Late in 1776, Congress sent Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee to join Deane. Together they arranged (1778) a commercial...


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