Biographies : 187
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BiographyWREDE, Carl-Philip, prince (1767-1838), ‘South German’ General and Diplomat
Karl Philip Freiherr von Wrede was born in Heidelberg in 1767. On joining the Elector's army he rose to colonel in 1795. Fighting under the orders of the Austrian Erzherzog Karl, he covered the retreat of the defeated Austrian army after Hohenlinden (3 December, 1800). When Bavaria entered into an alliance with the French, he […]
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BiographyWURTEMBERG, Catherine of
Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 21 February 1783 and died, in Lausanne, Switzerland, 29th of Novemeber 1835, Princess Catherine of Wurtemburg was Duchess of Swabia and of Teck, daughter of Frederick I of Wurtemberg and the princess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfen-Büttel. She married King Jérôme-Napoléon on the 22nd of August 1807 and bore three children: Prince Jerome […]
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BiographyWURTEMBERG, Frederick I of
After Princess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, eldest daughter of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Frederick later married Princess Charlotte of Wales, Princess Royal, the oldest daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte. They had one child, a stillborn daughter, born in 1798. Traditionally, anti-French, the Duke (he had become so on the death of his […]
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BiographyWYBICKI, Josef (1747-1822)Polish politician, author of the national anthem Wybicki was born on 29 September, 1747 in Bendomin, in northern Poland. He had seven sisters, at least four of whom became nuns, and a brother, who was a priest. After graduating from the Jesuit College in Danzig, he quickly entered into politics and became a member of […]
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BiographyYORCK VON WARTENBURG (Johann-David-Ludwig, Count), 1759-1830, Prussian General
Born in Königsberg, he joined the army at an early age, but when he was an officer, he was tried for insubordination in court martial, and he was cashiered. He then went on to serve in the Dutch army and participated in a campaign in Malaysia, before re-entering the Prussian army in 1787. In 1806, […]
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BiographyZaragoza, Ignacio Seguín (1829 – 1862), General in the Mexican army
Zaragoza was born in the small Mexican village of Presidio de Bahía del Espíritu Santo (now Goliad, Texas, in the United States), second son of Miguel G. Zaragoza from Veracruz and María de Jesús Seguín of Bexar. After the defeat of Mexico in the Texas Revolution (whereupon infantryman Miguel moved to Matamoros in 1834), the […]
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BiographyZiet(h)en, Generallieutenant Wieprecht Hans Karl Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Graf von (1770-1848)Generallieutenant Wieprecht Hans Karl Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Graf von Ziet(h)en, also Hans Ernst von Zieten (1770-1848)