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Born July 30, 1810 • Schwedt • Germany
Died December 22, 1900 (aged 90) • Germany
Role In Franco-German War • German-Danish War • Seven Weeks’ War
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Goeben, engraving by H. Weger, 1871
August Karl von Goeben
Prussian general
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Roon, engraving by K. Tetzel, 1861
Albrecht Theodor Emil, count von Roon
Prussian minister of war
Edwin, Freiherr von Manteuffel
Prussian general
Frederick Charles, 1875
Frederick Charles, prince of Prussia
Prussian prince
Kraft, prince zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
Prussian military officer
Albert
Albert
king of Saxony
Frederick II
Frederick II
king of Prussia
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian general
Frederick William I
Frederick William I
king of Prussia
August, Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau
August, Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau
Prussian field marshal
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt
Prussian field marshal
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Prussian general
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prussian noble
Leopold I
prince of Anhalt-Dessau
Johann Yorck, Graf von Wartenburg
Johann Yorck, count von Wartenburg
Prussian field marshal
Lutzow, lithograph, 1815
Adolf, baron von Lützow
Prussian general
Seydlitz, Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von
Friedrich Wilhelm, baron von Seydlitz
Prussian general
Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Ferdinand
Prussian general