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| | ROON, ALBRECHT THEODOR EMIL, COUNT VON (18o3-1879) - Encyclopedia Britannica - ROON, ALBRECHT THEODOR EMIL, COUNT VON ... |
 | | ROON, ALBRECHT THEODOR EMIL, COUNT VON (18o3-1879), Prussian general field-marshal, was born at Pleushagen, near Colberg, in Pomerania, on the 30th of April 1803. |
 | | von Roon was brought up, in a country ravaged in the War of Liberation and in straitened circumstances, by his maternal grandmother. |
 | | Meantime, in 1832, he rejoined his regiment, and was after-wards attached to the headquarters of General von Mtiflling's corps of observation at Crefeld, when he first became alive to the very inefficient state of the Prussian army. |
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