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Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

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During ten years of peace, he was in the closest touch with the military work of Frederick the Great, who supervised the instruction of the guard battalion, and sought to make it a model of the whole Prussian army. Ferdinand was, moreover, one of the most intimate friends of the king, and thus he was
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He found this army dejected by a reverse and a capitulation, yet within a week of his taking up the command, he assumed the offensive, and thus began the career of victory which made his reputation as a soldier. He tried to raise Hanoverian support for the war effort by highlighting various
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and other victories attested the increasing power of Ferdinand in the following campaigns, and Frederick, hard pressed in the eastern theatre of war, owed much of his success in an almost hopeless task to the continued pressure exerted by Ferdinand in the west.
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The merits, civil and military, of the prince were recognized by memorials not only in Prussia and Hanover, but also in Denmark, the states of western Germany and England. The Prussian memorials include an equestrian statue at Berlin 1863.
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The estrangement of Frederick and Ferdinand in 1766 led to the duke's retirement from Prussian service, but there was no open breach between the old friends, and Ferdinand visited the king in 1772, 1777, 1779 and 1782. Ferdinand retired to
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ruler of Hanover and Britain. His new commission placed him in Hanoverian service, rather than Prussian or British. Despite this Frederick continued to communicate with him as though he were under his direct command.
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Ferdinand followed up his success in driving the French back by crossing the Rhine himself as part of a fresh offensive. This caused alarm in France, as it was feared that a
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which gave him a reputation in Britain as a talented General, and helped boost support for British involvement in the German war. From June 1758, following the
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on 13 April 1759. Following the battle Ferdinand retreated in the face of a French advance, but managed to check them with a decisive victory at the
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peculiarly fitted for the tasks which afterwards fell to his lot. In this time, he was promoted to major-general and then lieutenant-general.
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by large number of British reinforcements was intended to be co-ordinated with Ferdinand's advance, although the destination of the descent
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atrocities committed by French troops during their occupation. By Spring 1758 he had driven the French out of Hanover and back across the
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In the first campaign of the Seven Years' War, Ferdinand commanded one of the Prussian columns which converged upon
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This article is about Frederick the Great's field marshal. For Ferdinand's nephew, see
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Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
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but could not easily maintain so advanced a position and fell back to the
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to protect western Germany, but had recently failed to prevent the
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Prussian military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession
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in November 1758, Frederick acknowledged his debt in the words,
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He resumed a bold offensive in 1759, only to be repulsed at
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Friedrich Ferdinand Constantin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
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24. Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (=8)
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Elisabeth Juliana Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Nordborg
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Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg
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Ancestors of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
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Shortly after this, he was appointed to command the
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Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken
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Je n'ai fait que ce que je dois, mon cher Ferdinand
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Index

Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick

Wolfenbüttel
Brunswick-Lüneburg
Brunswick
Brunswick-Lüneburg
Kingdom of Prussia
Prussia
Province of Hanover
Hanover
Field Marshal
War of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Mollwitz
Battle of Chotusitz
Battle of Soor
Seven Years' War
Battle of Lobositz
Battle of Prague
Battle of Rossbach
Battle of Rheinberg
Battle of Kreffeld
Battle of Corbach
Battle of Minden
Battle of Warburg
Battle of Kloster Kampen
Battle of Villinghausen
Battle of Wilhelmsthal
2nd Battle of Lutterberg
Battle of Nauheim

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