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On May 6, 1757, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal, died while engaged in combat at the age of 72. From the article:
"Prussian Generals of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815: Schwerin, Kurt Christoph, Graf von
Schwerin, Kurt Christoph, Graf von
Prussian general field marshal (1740-57); born October 26, 1684, Löwitz, Pomerania, died May 6, 1757, Prague, Bohemia
In 1700, Schwerin joined the Schwerin regiment of his uncle, the lieutenant-general Dettlof von Schwerin, in the company of his brother, the lieutenant-colonel Bernd Detlof von Schwerin as Frch. In 1701, at the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession, this regiment was transferred to Holland. In 1703, he was commissioned as Lt, and on 2 July 1704, he fought in the battle of Schellenberg (Donauwörth) and at Blindheim (Blenheim) on 13 August thet same year. In 1705 he was promoted to Kpt and Kiech., and in 1707 to Obstlt He fought in the battles of Ramillies (23 May 1706), Malplaquet (11 September 1709) and Gadebusch, south of Lübeck (9 December 1712), under the Swedish commander, General Magnus Stenbock. This action was Sweden`s last victory in this war).
He then accompanied the Swedes on their invasion of Russia in 1707, and fought at the battle of Poltava, in the central Ukraine, on 8 July 1709. King Charles had been wounded prior to the battle, and Swedish FM Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld commanded the army. Peter the Great commanded a superior Russian army, which had been reformed and retrained since previous battlefield debacles, and the outcome was a crushing Swedish defeat. The king and the survivors (including Schwerin) fled down into the Turkish-controlled city -fortress of Bender, in Moldova, on the River Dniestr. The Turks tolerated (and paid for) the Swedes for four years, but then turned against King Charles and attacked him on 1 February 1713, he was captured at the `Kalabalik` (crowd or mob) of Bender, in Moldova, on the River Dniestr, together with king Karl. In 1708, Kurt von Schwerin had been promoted to Obst, and on 3 September 1713, he was promoted to GM by Herzog Friedrich Wilhelm von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1719, he conducted a brilliant action on 6 March at Walsmühlen, in Mecklenburg on 6 March, against the invading Hanoverian army. As a reward, he was promoted to GL two days later. The Great Northern War ended very soon after the death of Charles XII of Sweden (on 11 December 1718); in the subsequent Treaty of Stockholm of 1720 (between Sweden on the one side and Prussia and Hanover on the other), part of Mecklenburg-Strelitz fell to Prussia. Graf Kurt Christoph thus transferred into Prussian service, as GM, under King Friedrich Wilhelm I. Initially, he was employed on diplomatic missions for his new ruler, but, in 1722, he was appointed Chef of IR Nr 24. In 1730, he was a member of the court-martial, which tried the future Frederick the Great and his friend, Hans Hermann von Katte, and condemned von Katte to death. That same year, he was appointed governor of Peitz, a town in eastern Brandenburg, near the confluence of the Rivers Spree and Neisse. In 1731, Kurt Christoph was promoted to GL. On 8 March 1733, he was awarded the HOSA. In 1739, he was promoted GoI, and on 30 June 1740m to GFM; he was ennobled Graf a month later. On 10 April 1741, during the War of the Austrian Succession, he won the battle of Mollwitz against the Austrians, which secured Prussia`s grip on Silesia.
In 1742, after the conclusion of the First Silesian War, Schwerin was governor of the important fortresses of Brieg on the Oder and Neisse, on the river of the same name. In the Second Silesian War (1744-1745), Schwerin commanded part of the Prussian army which, marching from Glatz, met Frederick the Great`s section of the army under the walls of Prague and took the Ziskaberg fortress. Schwerin then played an important role in the siege and capture of Prague (16 September 1744). When Frederick II was compelled to retreat from Bohemia, Schwerin again distinguished himself. He then retired to his estate during the years of peace.
In 1757, Schwerin led of the Prussian columns who invaded Bohemia, operating successfully against the superior Austrian army. He then joined King Frederick, who was laying siege to Prague. On 6 May, leading an assault on the left wing, with the colour of an infantry regiment in his hands, he was killed by a musket ball.
Placed on the Napoleon Series: April 2012."
"Prussian Generals of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815: Schwerin, Kurt Christoph, Graf von
Schwerin, Kurt Christoph, Graf von
Prussian general field marshal (1740-57); born October 26, 1684, Löwitz, Pomerania, died May 6, 1757, Prague, Bohemia
In 1700, Schwerin joined the Schwerin regiment of his uncle, the lieutenant-general Dettlof von Schwerin, in the company of his brother, the lieutenant-colonel Bernd Detlof von Schwerin as Frch. In 1701, at the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession, this regiment was transferred to Holland. In 1703, he was commissioned as Lt, and on 2 July 1704, he fought in the battle of Schellenberg (Donauwörth) and at Blindheim (Blenheim) on 13 August thet same year. In 1705 he was promoted to Kpt and Kiech., and in 1707 to Obstlt He fought in the battles of Ramillies (23 May 1706), Malplaquet (11 September 1709) and Gadebusch, south of Lübeck (9 December 1712), under the Swedish commander, General Magnus Stenbock. This action was Sweden`s last victory in this war).
He then accompanied the Swedes on their invasion of Russia in 1707, and fought at the battle of Poltava, in the central Ukraine, on 8 July 1709. King Charles had been wounded prior to the battle, and Swedish FM Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld commanded the army. Peter the Great commanded a superior Russian army, which had been reformed and retrained since previous battlefield debacles, and the outcome was a crushing Swedish defeat. The king and the survivors (including Schwerin) fled down into the Turkish-controlled city -fortress of Bender, in Moldova, on the River Dniestr. The Turks tolerated (and paid for) the Swedes for four years, but then turned against King Charles and attacked him on 1 February 1713, he was captured at the `Kalabalik` (crowd or mob) of Bender, in Moldova, on the River Dniestr, together with king Karl. In 1708, Kurt von Schwerin had been promoted to Obst, and on 3 September 1713, he was promoted to GM by Herzog Friedrich Wilhelm von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1719, he conducted a brilliant action on 6 March at Walsmühlen, in Mecklenburg on 6 March, against the invading Hanoverian army. As a reward, he was promoted to GL two days later. The Great Northern War ended very soon after the death of Charles XII of Sweden (on 11 December 1718); in the subsequent Treaty of Stockholm of 1720 (between Sweden on the one side and Prussia and Hanover on the other), part of Mecklenburg-Strelitz fell to Prussia. Graf Kurt Christoph thus transferred into Prussian service, as GM, under King Friedrich Wilhelm I. Initially, he was employed on diplomatic missions for his new ruler, but, in 1722, he was appointed Chef of IR Nr 24. In 1730, he was a member of the court-martial, which tried the future Frederick the Great and his friend, Hans Hermann von Katte, and condemned von Katte to death. That same year, he was appointed governor of Peitz, a town in eastern Brandenburg, near the confluence of the Rivers Spree and Neisse. In 1731, Kurt Christoph was promoted to GL. On 8 March 1733, he was awarded the HOSA. In 1739, he was promoted GoI, and on 30 June 1740m to GFM; he was ennobled Graf a month later. On 10 April 1741, during the War of the Austrian Succession, he won the battle of Mollwitz against the Austrians, which secured Prussia`s grip on Silesia.
In 1742, after the conclusion of the First Silesian War, Schwerin was governor of the important fortresses of Brieg on the Oder and Neisse, on the river of the same name. In the Second Silesian War (1744-1745), Schwerin commanded part of the Prussian army which, marching from Glatz, met Frederick the Great`s section of the army under the walls of Prague and took the Ziskaberg fortress. Schwerin then played an important role in the siege and capture of Prague (16 September 1744). When Frederick II was compelled to retreat from Bohemia, Schwerin again distinguished himself. He then retired to his estate during the years of peace.
In 1757, Schwerin led of the Prussian columns who invaded Bohemia, operating successfully against the superior Austrian army. He then joined King Frederick, who was laying siege to Prague. On 6 May, leading an assault on the left wing, with the colour of an infantry regiment in his hands, he was killed by a musket ball.
Placed on the Napoleon Series: April 2012."
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The War of the Spanish Succession (Wars of Louis XIV: Part II)
Continued from Part I: https://youtu.be/yNCD9uTiAl0 The War of the Spanish Succession was the last, longest, and largest of the wars of Louis XIV. When Charl...
Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for honoring Prussian field marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin. It is strange that this officer who died decades before the French revolution would be included in Prussian Generals of The Napoleonic Wars [1793-1815].
Prussian nobleman Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin fought as a young officer in the coalition warfare of the War of the Spanish Succession as a Prussian soldier.
For those who are not familiar, warfare was common in Europe for much of the 18th century as states fought against other states - usually over who would be king and/or expansion of territory. The article you posted neglects to mention that he was ransomed after being captured on 1 February 1713, "at the `Kalabalik` (crowd or mob) of Bender, in Moldova, on the River Dniestr, together with king [Charles XII of Sweden]."
Most likely he escaped in incognito with Swedish King Charles XII
Background from britannica.com/biography/Charles-XII
Swedish King Charles XII was not unmindful of Sweden’s role in central and western Europe; his support of the Silesian Protestants against the Catholic Habsburg emperor was firmly based on the Swedish guarantee of the Peace of Westphalia, and he continued that policy of the “balancing role” between the great coalitions of the west to which Swedish rulers and statesmen since 1660 had aspired in the hope of achieving prestige and territory by armed mediation in suitable circumstances. His first necessity in 1706, however, was to secure Sweden’s position in relation to Russia, which, under Peter I the Great, had from 1703 onward made good use of Charles XII’s campaigns in Poland to train its army and undertake a piecemeal conquest of the Swedish east Baltic provinces. Charles’s troops left Saxony to invade Russia in the late autumn of 1707. They won the Battle of Hołowczyn in July 1708, but Russian scorched-earth tactics forced Charles to abandon his route to Moscow and turn instead into the Ukraine. Thereafter, the Russians interfered successfully with the Swedes’ communications, and by the summer of 1709 Charles XII had no choice between accepting battle with the Russians or withdrawing once more into Poland. Though wounded in the foot and unable to lead the army in person, Charles chose battle and attacked the Russian fortified camp at Poltava on July 8 (June 27, old style; June 28, Swedish style). The attack failed, and three days later the bulk of the Swedish Army surrendered to the Russians at Perevolochna. Charles was by then already on his way to Turkish-held territory, where he hoped to find allies.
Years In Turkey, 1709–14
Turkey’s desire to reconquer Azov from Peter the Great augured well for its cooperation with Charles XII, but—in spite of four Turkish declarations of war against Russia—as the army expected from Sweden never arrived, the Swedish king was unable to pursue his plans vigorously.
He became the object of Turkish intrigues and in February 1713 had to fight a regular battle, the kalabalik of Bender (modern Bendery, Moldova), to avoid a plot to deliver him into the hands of Augustus of Saxony, now restored in Poland. The closing of the Turko-Habsburg frontier due to the plague, and the determination of the anti-French alliance in the War of the Spanish Succession to prevent Sweden from using its bases in Germany to attack its enemies further circumscribed Charles XII’s freedom of action in these years. The Swedish council, virtually in charge of affairs at home during his absence, was preoccupied with threats to Sweden from Denmark.
The administrative and financial reforms that Charles promulgated from Turkey in order to distribute the burden of the war effort fairly and to increase both resources and efficiency were largely sabotaged and were put into effect only after his return to Swedish Pomerania in November 1714 (having ridden incognito through Habsburg and German lands in 14 days and nights)"
Background on the War of the Spanish Succession [1701-1714]
The War of the Spanish Succession (Wars of Louis XIV: Part II)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXJk2AWg4w
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Prussian nobleman Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin fought as a young officer in the coalition warfare of the War of the Spanish Succession as a Prussian soldier.
For those who are not familiar, warfare was common in Europe for much of the 18th century as states fought against other states - usually over who would be king and/or expansion of territory. The article you posted neglects to mention that he was ransomed after being captured on 1 February 1713, "at the `Kalabalik` (crowd or mob) of Bender, in Moldova, on the River Dniestr, together with king [Charles XII of Sweden]."
Most likely he escaped in incognito with Swedish King Charles XII
Background from britannica.com/biography/Charles-XII
Swedish King Charles XII was not unmindful of Sweden’s role in central and western Europe; his support of the Silesian Protestants against the Catholic Habsburg emperor was firmly based on the Swedish guarantee of the Peace of Westphalia, and he continued that policy of the “balancing role” between the great coalitions of the west to which Swedish rulers and statesmen since 1660 had aspired in the hope of achieving prestige and territory by armed mediation in suitable circumstances. His first necessity in 1706, however, was to secure Sweden’s position in relation to Russia, which, under Peter I the Great, had from 1703 onward made good use of Charles XII’s campaigns in Poland to train its army and undertake a piecemeal conquest of the Swedish east Baltic provinces. Charles’s troops left Saxony to invade Russia in the late autumn of 1707. They won the Battle of Hołowczyn in July 1708, but Russian scorched-earth tactics forced Charles to abandon his route to Moscow and turn instead into the Ukraine. Thereafter, the Russians interfered successfully with the Swedes’ communications, and by the summer of 1709 Charles XII had no choice between accepting battle with the Russians or withdrawing once more into Poland. Though wounded in the foot and unable to lead the army in person, Charles chose battle and attacked the Russian fortified camp at Poltava on July 8 (June 27, old style; June 28, Swedish style). The attack failed, and three days later the bulk of the Swedish Army surrendered to the Russians at Perevolochna. Charles was by then already on his way to Turkish-held territory, where he hoped to find allies.
Years In Turkey, 1709–14
Turkey’s desire to reconquer Azov from Peter the Great augured well for its cooperation with Charles XII, but—in spite of four Turkish declarations of war against Russia—as the army expected from Sweden never arrived, the Swedish king was unable to pursue his plans vigorously.
He became the object of Turkish intrigues and in February 1713 had to fight a regular battle, the kalabalik of Bender (modern Bendery, Moldova), to avoid a plot to deliver him into the hands of Augustus of Saxony, now restored in Poland. The closing of the Turko-Habsburg frontier due to the plague, and the determination of the anti-French alliance in the War of the Spanish Succession to prevent Sweden from using its bases in Germany to attack its enemies further circumscribed Charles XII’s freedom of action in these years. The Swedish council, virtually in charge of affairs at home during his absence, was preoccupied with threats to Sweden from Denmark.
The administrative and financial reforms that Charles promulgated from Turkey in order to distribute the burden of the war effort fairly and to increase both resources and efficiency were largely sabotaged and were put into effect only after his return to Swedish Pomerania in November 1714 (having ridden incognito through Habsburg and German lands in 14 days and nights)"
Background on the War of the Spanish Succession [1701-1714]
The War of the Spanish Succession (Wars of Louis XIV: Part II)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXJk2AWg4w
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