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Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher

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Noun1.Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher - Prussian general who is remembered for his leadership in the wars against Napoleon (1742-1819)
full general, general - a general officer of the highest rank


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The Congress''s Final Act was signed nine days before his final defeat by Prussia''s Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher with the help of the United Kingdom''s Duke of Wellington at Waterloo on June 18, 1815.
Proposed additions The Prince Blucher pub, in Stafford Street, Walsall which is a three-storey, 19th century building deriving its name from Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, who led the Prussian army to help defeat the French at Waterloo in 1815Two almshouses in Bath Street, Walsall, which were founded in 1519 and rebuilt in 1873.
Clausewitz points out, for example, that in the February 1814 campaign against France, the allies' COG lay more with Prussia's Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher than with Austria's Prince Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg, even though the latter had a larger army (140,000) than the former (100,000).
 
 
 
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