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(1735-1806) ruler of the duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel from 1780 to 1806. Marriage alliances linked the Braunschweig princes with PRUSSIA, thereby providing them with a powerful ally and protector. Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand exhibited interests as a young man in the intellectual trends of the ENLIGHTENMENT and in state reform. He studied the writings of the French […]

General Friedrich Graf Bülow von Dennewitz, a capable Prussian corps commander who in the campaign of 1813, defeated the French at Grossbeeren and Dennewitz. He also played a prominent part at Waterloo in 1815. The Prussian general Friedrich Wilhelm Graf Bülow, as commander of III Corps in the battles of Grossbeeren (23 August 1813) and […]