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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (; December 16, 1742 – September 12, 1819), Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington. The honorary citizen of Berlin, Hamburg and Rostock bore the nickname "Marschall Vorwärts" ("Marshal Forwards") because of his approach to warfare.

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  • Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
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  • Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (; December 16, 1742 – September 12, 1819), Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington. The honorary citizen of Berlin, Hamburg and Rostock bore the nickname "Marschall Vorwärts" ("Marshal Forwards") because of his approach to warfare.
  • Perhaps because Blucher had little time to celebrate his co-victory with Wellington (he was dead by 1819), the canny Anglo-Irish Duke made sure he got all the future credit for the victory at Waterloo. Over time, the Prussian involvement was downplayed and forgotten by the English. A hundred years after the battle, a German battleship carrying Blücher's name ended up at the bottom of the North Sea after the Battle of the Dogger Bank - this time sunk by the British in the First World War.
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  • 1758(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1742-12-16(xsd:date)
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  • Krieblowitz, Silesia Province
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  • Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
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  • contemporary portrait
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  • Rostock, Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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  • 1819-09-12(xsd:date)
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  • Generalfeldmarschall
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  • Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (; December 16, 1742 – September 12, 1819), Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington. The honorary citizen of Berlin, Hamburg and Rostock bore the nickname "Marschall Vorwärts" ("Marshal Forwards") because of his approach to warfare.
  • Perhaps because Blucher had little time to celebrate his co-victory with Wellington (he was dead by 1819), the canny Anglo-Irish Duke made sure he got all the future credit for the victory at Waterloo. Over time, the Prussian involvement was downplayed and forgotten by the English. A hundred years after the battle, a German battleship carrying Blücher's name ended up at the bottom of the North Sea after the Battle of the Dogger Bank - this time sunk by the British in the First World War.
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