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Friedrich Ludwig, prince zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
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Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst (prince) zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, engraving by Wilhelm Arndt, c. 1795.

Friedrich Ludwig, prince zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen

Prussian field marshal
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Born:
Jan. 31, 1746, Ingelfingen, Württemberg
Died:
Feb. 15, 1818, Castle Slawenitz, Silesia (aged 72)

Friedrich Ludwig, prince zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (born Jan. 31, 1746, Ingelfingen, Württemberg—died Feb. 15, 1818, Castle Slawenitz, Silesia) was a Prussian field marshal who commanded one of the two Prussian armies that were decisively defeated by Napoleon at the twin battles of Jena and Auerstädt in 1806, a disaster that turned his country into a French dependency. Hohenlohe entered the Prussian Army in 1768, distinguishing himself in the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778–79). He became governor of Berlin in 1791 and participated in the campaign on the Rhine against revolutionary France in 1794. After war broke out again in 1806, ...(100 of 161 words)

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