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| | Albrecht von Roon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Count Albrecht Theodor Emil von Roon (30 April 1803 - 23 February 1879) was a (A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland) Prussian (An enlisted man or woman who serves in an army) soldier and (A person active in party politics) politician. |
 | | His father, an officer of the Prussian army, died in poverty during the French occupation, and young von Roon was brought up, in a country ravaged in the War of Liberation and in straitened circumstances, by his maternal grandmother. |
 | | At the end of 1859, though the junior lieutenant-general in the army, he succeeded von Bonin as war minister, and two years later the ministry of marine was also entrusted to him. |
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