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 Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was one of the leaders of the war party in Prussia in 1805-1806, and served as a cavalry general in the disastrous campaign of the latter year.
Following the start of the 1813 War of Liberation, Blücher was again placed in high command, and he was present at Lützen and Bautzen.
During the armistice he worked on the organization of the Prussian forces, and when the war was resumed Blücher became commander-in-chief of the Army of Silesia, with Gneisenau and Muffling as his principal staff officers, and 40,000 Prussians and 50,000 Russians under his command.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%c3%bccher   (1475 words)

  
 Popular Militias   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Their models were the 1793 French levee en masse, an idealized memory of the halcyon days of the Prussian Landwehr during the 1813 war of liberation or the local municipal civil guards of self-governing towns.
Liberals generally associated standing armies with wars of aggression and believed that militias could only be used for defense.
As the liberal springtime euphoria evaporated in the autumn of 1848 the excluded lower classes and radicals renewed their revolutionary commitment and turned to building an organizational base in their continuing struggle for power.
cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ip/popmilit.htm   (1280 words)

  
 First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Iron Cross
The Iron Cross - perhaps the best-known of German medals with the possible exception of the Blue Max (Pour le Merite) - was instituted on 10 March 1813 by King Frederick William III of Prussia during the War of Liberation against the French under Napoleon.
The medal was once again reinstituted by Adolf Hitler on 1 September 1939 in readiness for the Second World War; Hitler had himself received the award during the First World War.
A "pal's battalion" was comprised of soldiers raised in the same locality with the promise they would serve with their friends for the duration of the war.
www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/ironcross.htm   (325 words)

  
 Iraq's Occupation of Kuwait (from Persian Gulf War) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The war led to the rapid defeat of Iraqi military and paramilitary forces and the occupation of Iraq.
The war began about 2:40 AM on January 17 Iraq time, or 6:40 PM EST on January 16 in the United States.
The Persian Gulf War, which took place during the first two months of 1991, freed Kuwait from the control of Saddam Hussein, the...
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-206291?ct=   (987 words)

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