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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Born on 4 October 1677, in Saxony, Germany, his father, Herzog Friedrich I. von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg, was 31 and his mother, Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen-Weissenfels, was 29. He died on 15 August 1707, in Gotha, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Germany, at the age of 29.
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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