Category Archives: Military

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Georg Wilhelm Baron von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen 1726-1794

General officer of Hanoverian soldiers during the War of the First Coalition who famously led one of the Coalition columns at the Battle of Tourcoing. In 1743 he joined the Hanoverian military service and fought in the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years’ War, fighting at Minden and Lutterberg. He led a battalion at Gibraltar in the American Revolutionary War. In the War of the First Coalition he led his soldiers at Valenciennes, Hondschoote, Mouscron, Tourcoing and Tournai. On 11 December 1794 while defending the Bommelerwaard in the Dutch Republic, his hand was taken off by a cannonball and he died shortly afterward.
Size 12 x 20.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy

Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy was an Austrian military leader of Baltic German and Irish origins. He was the son of Count Peter von Lacy, and was a famous Austrian field marshal. Lacy served during the reign of Maria Theresa, and was a close friend to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, becoming one of the latter’s advisers
Artist: C.Kollonitsch
Date:1770
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden 1655-1707

Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden, called Türkenlouis  was regent in the Margraviate of Baden-Baden, builder of the castle in Rastatt, lieutenant general in the imperial army and a successful general in the wars against the Turks. The Ottomans called him the “Red King” because of his red uniform jacket, which could be seen from afar. He was first district general field marshal of the troops in the Swabian Reich District and Reich Field Marshal of the Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation.
Date:
Size 9.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck 1639-1688

Otto Wilhelm Graf (count) von Königsmarck, born 1639 in Minden, Germany, died 1688 in Modon, Greece, was a German-Swedish count, military officer, field marshal since 1667, Governor General for Swedish Pomerania (1679-1687), leader of the Venetian conquest of the Morea in the beginning of the Morea War; son of Hans Christoff Königsmarck; he died of the plague on an admiral’s ship at the Greece shore.
Artist: Cornelius Nicolas Schurtz (active 1670-1689)
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Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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