Motte Fouqué, F. Baron von Lebensbeschreibung des Königlich Preußischen Generals der Infanterie Heinrich August Baron de la Motte Fouqué

Name: Motte Fouqué, F. Baron von: Lebensbeschreibung des Königlich Preußischen Generals der Infanterie Heinrich August Baron de la Motte Fouqué
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Reprint of the Berlin 1824 edition. A plan. In the reprint expanded by the reproduction of a portrait sketch of Adolph Menzel. Buchholz: LTR-Verlag 2007. 508 pp.

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Born in 1698, he took part in the siege of Stralsund in 1715 as a page for Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau at the age of 17, became an ensign in his regiment in the same year and served there until he became a captain. In Rheinsberg he was already a welcome guest at the Crown Prince's table and later won the King's friendship. After falling out with the "Old Dessauer", he went into Danish service in 1739 and returned to Prussia after Frederick's accession to the throne in 1740. De la Motte Fouqué becomes colonel and commander of the newly established Fusilier Regiment No. 37, in 1744 chief of the Fusilier Regiment No. 33 and at the same time commander of Glatz. Frederick II later moves his regiment there and promotes him to General of the Infantry in 1759. In 1760 he was attacked by three times the Austrian superiority at Landshut and was wounded and taken prisoner. Frederick compares him to Leonidas at Thermopylae (we present the story of his Silesian campaign in 1760 in Sodenstern's account, also reprinted). The Austrians, too, are aware of his military importance and do not exchange him until 1763. De la Motte Fouqué died in 1774. Frederick the Great was godfather to his grandson, the later poet and officer of the Volunteer Hunters with the Brandenburg Cuirassier Regiment 1813/14, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, who published this biography of his grandfather in 1824.

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State: Second Hand
Author: Motte Fouqué, F. Baron von
Title: Lebensbeschreibung des Königlich Preußischen Generals der Infanterie Heinrich August Baron de la Motte Fouqué
Details: Reprint of the Berlin 1824 edition. A plan. In the reprint expanded by the reproduction of a portrait sketch of Adolph Menzel. Buchholz: LTR-Verlag 2007. 508 pp.