Historical records matching Carl von Clausewitz
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About Carl von Clausewitz
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<p>Clausewitz was born on 1 June 1780 in Burg bei Magdeburg in the Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg as the fourth and youngest son of a family that made claims to a noble status which Carl accepted. Clausewitz's family claimed descent from the Barons of Clausewitz in Upper Silesia. An Enlightenment genius with ideas well ahead of his time, Clausewitz was a Prussian general and military theorist. He was not even a teenager when he signed up for the military, and he first saw action as a 13-year old cadet. Faced Napoleon at Jena in October 1806. He was wounded and captured when the Prussians surrendered and ended up spending a year under detention in France. </p>army and served in the Imperial Russian Army from 1812 to 1813 during the Russian Campaign, taking part in the Battle of Borodino (1812). Like many Prussian officers serving in Russia, he joined the Russian-German Legion in 1813. In the service of the Russian Empire, Clausewitz helped negotiate the Convention of Tauroggen (1812), which prepared the way for the coalition of Prussia, Russia, and the United Kingdom that ultimately defeated Napoleon and his allies. He served at the Battle of Ligny and the Battle of Wavre during the Waterloo Campaign in 1815 following his return to the Prussian military with the rank of Colonel.</p>ary theorist interested in the examination of war, utilising the campaigns of Frederick the Great and Napoleon as frames of reference for his work. He wrote a careful, systematic, philosophical examination of war in all its aspects. The result was his principal book, On War, a major work on the philosophy of war. It was unfinished when Clausewitz died and contains material written at different stages in his intellectual evolution, producing some significant contradictions between different sections. </p>intelligence at all levels, he was also very sceptical of the accuracy of much military intelligence: "Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.... In short, most intelligence is false." This circumstance is generally described as part of the fog of war.</p>ompleted by his wife, Marie, and published a year after his death. Despite this his ideas have been widely influential in military theory and his work is still studied today.</p>t;p> </p>
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Carl von Clausewitz's Timeline
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July 1, 1780
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Burg bei Magdeburg
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July 9, 1780
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Burg, Burg, Jerichow I, Saxony, Prussia, Germany
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November 16, 1831
Age 51
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Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany
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1831
Age 50
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Friedhof Burg, Burg, Burg, Jerichow I, Saxony, Prussia, Germany
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Berlin
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