Charles William Ferdinand
Charles William Ferdinand 1735-1806, duke of Brunswick (1780-1806), Prussian field marshal. He had great success in the Seven Years War (1756-63) and was commander in chief (1792-94) of the Austro-Prussian armies in the French Revolutionary Wars . Although he sympathized with some of the goals of the Revolution, he led the German army in its ill-fated march into France in 1792 and issued a manifesto threatening severe reprisals against the revolutionaries. Defeated at Valmy (1792), in 1793 he routed the French at Kaiserslautern and Pirmasens. He again commanded the Prussian armies in 1806 and was defeated by the French marshal Davout at Auerstedt. He was blinded in the battle and died soon after. His son was Frederick William , duke of Brunswick.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/15/1995; 700+ words
; ...playwright and novelist, 1862; Edwin Muir, poet and translator, 1887; Katherine Anne Porter, author, 1890; Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, playwright and novelist, 1891; Joseph Cheshire Cotten, screen and stage actor, 1905; James Mason...
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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov , 1891-1940, Russian novelist and playwright. He wrote satirical...several of his works. Bibliography: See The Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov: 1926-1936 (tr. 1972); study by A. C. Wright (1978...
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