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Tango01  | 09 Mar 2024 5:09 p.m. PST |
… of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807: Volume II – The Friedland Campaign
"Translated for the first time into English, General Levin Bennigsen's memoirs offer unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Poland leading to the disastrous battle at Friedland that paved the way for Napoleon's supremacy in Europe.
A Hanoverian by birth, General Levin von Bennigsen spent 45 years in the Russian army earning a reputation of a capable officer. Due to his father's connections at the Hanoverian court, Bennigsen began his service there at the tender age of ten as a page and was commissioned as ensign in the Hanoverian army at 14. In 1763, as a captain, he fought in the final campaign of the Seven Years War but then retired deeply disillusioned with military service and widely regarded as an unpromising officer. After apparently squandering his inheritance he sought a new career in Russia in 1773. Over the next four decades he fought against the Poles, Turks, and Persians, steadily advancing through the ranks and garnering a fistful of awards. A lieutenant general in 1798, he was caught up in Emperor Paul's purge of high-ranking officers and nurtured deep animosity towards the czar. He thus took an active part in the conspiracy that assassinated Paul in late March 1801. Despite his role in the conspiracy, Bennigsen's career did not suffer under the new emperor – promoted to general in 1802, he commanded a Russian corps sent to support Prussians during the War of the Fourth Coalition in 1806. It was then that his name became a household word as he took supreme command of the Russian army against Napoleon, at the height of his power and fresh from his thrashing of Prussia. The subsequent Polish campaign turned into a quagmire as the two sides clashed amidst one of Europe's poorest and most barren regions…"
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| 14Bore | 10 Mar 2024 2:05 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 10 Mar 2024 3:13 p.m. PST |
Me too… Waiting comments here first … Armand |
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receives a gift from his wife…
