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The Friedenskirche (Church of Peace) is a Lutheran church inSanssouci Park, surroundingSanssouci Palace, inPotsdam, Germany. Sanssouci Palace was built between 1745 – 1747 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia, now in the German state of Brandenburg, during the reign ofFriedrich II (the Great...
The article focuses on a book "The Absentee" by Maria Edgeworth which urges absent landlords to return home to improve the national economy as well as public and personal morality. It mentions background of the Napoleonic Wars, such a mission prohibits participating in the Bri...
The article focuses on a book "The Absentee" by Maria Edgeworth which urges absent landlords to return home to improve the national economy as well as public and personal morality. It mentions background of the Napoleonic Wars, such a mission prohibits participating in the British war efforts ag...
His policy of neutrality in the Wars of the Second and Third Coalitions accelerated the decline of Prussia’sprestige. Domestic reforms before theBattle of Jenaforeshadowed later reforms without, however, altering the absolutist structure of the state. Until 1807 he clung to the traditional cabinet...
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst (prince) von Wahlstatt was a Prussian field marshal and a commander during the Napoleonic Wars, who was important in the Allied victory at Waterloo. Blücher enlisted in the Swedish cavalry in 1756 and served until
Role In: Napoleonic Wars See all related content Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (born Nov. 12, 1755, Bordenau, Hanover—died June 28, 1813, Prague) was a Prussian general who developed the modern general staff system. With another reformer of army procedures, August von Gneisenau, he...
He sponsored widespread reforms in Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars and influenced the formation of the last European coalition against Napoleon.Childhood and youth. Stein was born into a family of the imperial nobility. His father, although a Protestant, was chamberlain to the Catholic elector ...
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 (1813–1