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Also Known As Marschall Vorwärts
Born December 16, 1742 • Rostock • Germany
Died September 12, 1819 (aged 76) • Prussia
Role In Battle of Leipzig • Battle of Waterloo • Napoleonic Wars

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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Blucher, detail from an oil painting by Friedrich Carl Groger, 1817
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Napoleon I
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Carl von Clausewitz
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Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Prussian general
Johann Yorck, Graf von Wartenburg
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Prussian field marshal
Lutzow, lithograph, 1815
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Prussian general
Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington
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prime minister of Great Britain
Karl Philipp, prince zu Schwarzenberg
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Joseph, Graf Radetzky.
Joseph, Graf Radetzky
Austrian military reformer
Leonty Leontyevich, count von Bennigsen
Russian general
Henryk Dembiński
Polish soldier and revolutionary leader
Frederick II
Frederick II
king of Prussia
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Karl August, Fürst von Hardenberg
Karl August von Hardenberg
Prussian statesman
Frederick William I
Frederick William I
king of Prussia
Haugwitz, drawing, before 1776; in the Lavater portrait collection
Christian, count von Haugwitz
Prussian minister and diplomat
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prussian noble
Leopold I
prince of Anhalt-Dessau
Edwin, Freiherr von Manteuffel
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Frederick Charles, 1875
Frederick Charles, prince of Prussia
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