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Friedrich Karl Ferdinand, Freiherr Muffling - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | FRIEDRICH KARL FERDINAND, FREIHERR MUFFLING voN, called Weiss (1775-1851), Prussian general field marshal, was born on the 12th of June 1775, and entered the Prussian army in 1790. |
 | | His business qualities and common sense were greatly valued, though the temperamental differences between Muffling and Gneisenau often led to friction, especially as the former was in a measure the representative of the antiquated "topographical" school of strategists, to whom (rightly in the main) the disaster of Jena was attributed. |
 | | Armee, and on Ruhle von Lilienstern's Bericht uber die Vorgange bei der Hohenloheschen Armee 1806; Die preussisch-russische Kampagne bis zum Waffenstillstande 1813 (Berlin, 1813); Geschichte der Armeen unter Wellington and Blucher 1815 (Stuttgart, 1817); Zur Kriegsgesch. |
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