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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%85%D1%82_%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%85%D0%B5%D1%80" title="Гебхард Леберехт фон Блюхер – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Гебхард Леберехт фон Блюхер" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%AD%CE%BC%CF%80%CF%87%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BD%CF%84_%CE%9B%CE%AD%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%87%CF%84_%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%BB%CF%8D%CF%87%CE%B5%CF%81" title="Γκέμπχαρντ Λέμπερεχτ φον Μπλύχερ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γκέμπχαρντ Λέμπερεχτ φον Μπλύχερ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%B1" title="گبهارد لبرشت فون بلوشر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="گبهارد لبرشت فون بلوشر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B2%8C%ED%94%84%ED%95%98%EB%A5%B4%ED%8A%B8_%EB%A0%88%EB%B2%A0%EB%A0%88%ED%9E%88%ED%8A%B8_%ED%8F%B0_%EB%B8%94%EB%A4%BC%ED%97%88" title="게프하르트 레베레히트 폰 블뤼허 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="게프하르트 레베레히트 폰 블뤼허" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Blucher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher" 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href="/wiki/File:Bl%C3%BCcher_(nach_Gebauer).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Bl%C3%BCcher_%28nach_Gebauer%29.jpg/220px-Bl%C3%BCcher_%28nach_Gebauer%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Bl%C3%BCcher_%28nach_Gebauer%29.jpg/330px-Bl%C3%BCcher_%28nach_Gebauer%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Bl%C3%BCcher_%28nach_Gebauer%29.jpg/440px-Bl%C3%BCcher_%28nach_Gebauer%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1006" data-file-height="1240" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="font-size: 100%"><i>Gebhard von Blücher</i> by Ernst Gebauer</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><i>Marschall Vorwärts</i> (Marshal Forwards)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1742-12-21</span>)</span>21 December 1742<br /><a href="/wiki/Rostock" title="Rostock">Rostock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin" title="Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin">Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">12 September 1819<span style="display:none">(1819-09-12)</span> (aged 76)<br /><a href="/wiki/Krobielowice" title="Krobielowice">Krieblowitz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Silesia" title="Province of Silesia">Province of Silesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Kingdom of Prussia</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_Confederation" title="German Confederation">German Confederation</a><br />(present-day Krobielowice, <a href="/wiki/Lower_Silesia_Voivodeship" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower Silesia Voivodeship">Lower Silesia Voivodeship</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/War_Ensign_of_Prussia_%281816%29.svg/23px-War_Ensign_of_Prussia_%281816%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/War_Ensign_of_Prussia_%281816%29.svg/35px-War_Ensign_of_Prussia_%281816%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/War_Ensign_of_Prussia_%281816%29.svg/46px-War_Ensign_of_Prussia_%281816%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Prussian_Army" title="Prussian Army">Prussian Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1758–1815</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia"><img alt="Kingdom of Prussia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281803-1892%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <i><a href="/wiki/Generalfeldmarschall" title="Generalfeldmarschall">Generalfeldmarschall</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview 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class="mw-redirect" title="German Campaign of 1813">Autumn campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Katzbach" title="Battle of the Katzbach">Battle of the Katzbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wartenburg" title="Battle of Wartenburg">Battle of Wartenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig" title="Battle of Leipzig">Battle of Leipzig</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campaign_in_north-east_France_(1814)" title="Campaign in north-east France (1814)">Campaign in north-east France (1814)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brienne" title="Battle of Brienne">Battle of Brienne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Rothi%C3%A8re" title="Battle of La Rothière">Battle of La Rothière</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six_Days%27_Campaign" title="Six Days' Campaign">Six Days' Campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Champaubert" title="Battle of Champaubert">Battle of Champaubert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vauchamps" title="Battle of Vauchamps">Battle of Vauchamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Laon" title="Battle of Laon">Battle of Laon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paris_(1814)" title="Battle of Paris (1814)">Battle of Paris</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterloo_campaign" title="Waterloo campaign">Waterloo campaign</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ligny" title="Battle of Ligny">Battle of Ligny</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wounded_in_action" title="Wounded in action"><abbr title="Wounded in action">WIA</abbr></a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Campaign#Invasion_of_France_and_the_occupation_of_Paris_(18_June_–_7_July)" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterloo Campaign">Occupation of Paris</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Star_of_the_Grand_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross" title="Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross">Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross</a><br /><i><a href="/wiki/Pour_le_M%C3%A9rite" title="Pour le Mérite">Pour le Mérite</a></i><br /><a href="/wiki/Grand_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross" title="Grand Cross of the Iron Cross">Grand Cross of the Iron Cross</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._George" title="Order of St. George">Order of St. George</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_William" title="Military Order of William">Military Order of William</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_Maria_Theresa" title="Military Order of Maria Theresa">Military Order of Maria Theresa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Mapscaleline.svg/52px-Mapscaleline.svg.png" decoding="async" width="52" height="7" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Mapscaleline.svg/78px-Mapscaleline.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Mapscaleline.svg/104px-Mapscaleline.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="138" data-file-height="18" /></span></span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 115.875px; left: 288px; transform: translateX(-100%) rotate(0deg); text-align: right; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: grey; font-size: 9px; font-weight:normal;"> 500km<br />300miles</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 78.817870245322px; left: 81.321614230414px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #000000; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 78.817870245322px; left: 97.821614230414px; text-align: left; transform: rotate(0deg) background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Waterloo</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 78.817870245322px; left: 87.821614230414px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">11</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 78.817870245322px; left: 81.321614230414px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo"><img alt="Battle of Waterloo Coalition victory against Napoleon Blücher is 72 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 111.17581643627px; left: 57.670903195468px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #800000; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 110.17581643627px; left: 57.170903195468px; transform: translateX(-100%) rotate(0deg); text-align: right; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Paris</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 111.17581643627px; left: 64.170903195468px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">10</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 111.17581643627px; left: 57.670903195468px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paris_(1814)" title="Battle of Paris (1814)"><img alt="Battle of Paris (1814) Coalition victory against Joseph Bonaparte Blücher is 71 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 98.6966807554px; left: 72.251681357789px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #800000; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 97.6966807554px; left: 88.751681357789px; text-align: left; transform: rotate(0deg) background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Laon</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 98.6966807554px; left: 78.751681357789px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">9</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 98.6966807554px; left: 72.251681357789px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Laon" title="Battle of Laon"><img alt="Battle of Laon Coalition victory against Napoleon Blücher is 71 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 110.82672989307px; left: 74.088629787688px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #800000; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 109.82672989307px; left: 90.588629787688px; text-align: left; transform: rotate(0deg) background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Champaubert</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 110.82672989307px; left: 80.588629787688px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">8</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 110.82672989307px; left: 74.088629787688px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Champaubert" title="Battle of Champaubert"><img alt="Battle of Champaubert French victory: Napoleon Blücher is 71 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 121.75668269172px; left: 84.421464705868px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #800000; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 120.75668269172px; left: 100.92146470587px; text-align: left; transform: rotate(0deg) background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Brienne</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 121.75668269172px; left: 90.921464705868px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">7</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 121.75668269172px; left: 84.421464705868px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brienne" title="Battle of Brienne"><img alt="Battle of Brienne French victory: Napoleon Blücher is 71 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 66.958140978442px; left: 172.82460789474px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #000080; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 58.958140978442px; left: 173.32460789474px; transform: translateX(-100%) rotate(0deg); text-align: right; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #000080; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Leipzig</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 66.958140978442px; left: 179.32460789474px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">6</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 66.958140978442px; left: 172.82460789474px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig" title="Battle of Leipzig"><img alt="Battle of Leipzig Coalition victory over Napoleon Blücher is 70 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 71.173692774749px; left: 215.53365888989px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #000080; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 71.173692774749px; left: 231.03365888989px; text-align: left; transform: rotate(0deg) background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #000080; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Katzbach</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 71.173692774749px; left: 222.03365888989px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">5</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 71.173692774749px; left: 215.53365888989px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Katzbach" title="Battle of the Katzbach"><img alt="Battle of the Katzbach Prusso–Russian victory over MacDonald Blücher is 70 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 69.709800769612px; left: 196.24570037595px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #000080; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 69.709800769612px; left: 217.74570037595px; width: fit-content; height: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-100%) rotate(0deg); background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #000080; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Bautzen</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 69.709800769612px; left: 202.74570037595px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">4</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 69.709800769612px; left: 196.24570037595px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bautzen_(1813)" title="Battle of Bautzen (1813)"><img alt="Battle of Bautzen (1813) French victory: Napoleon Blücher is 70 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 18.92837136041px; left: 153.42184010394px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #808000; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 17.92837136041px; left: 151.92184010394px; transform: translateX(-100%) rotate(0deg); text-align: right; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #808000; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Lübeck</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 18.92837136041px; left: 159.92184010394px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">3</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 18.92837136041px; left: 153.42184010394px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_L%C3%BCbeck" title="Battle of Lübeck"><img alt="Battle of Lübeck French victory: Bernadotte Blücher is 63 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div> <div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 29.568201792905px; left: 189.93119014818px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #808000; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 28.568201792905px; left: 206.43119014818px; text-align: left; transform: rotate(0deg) background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #808000; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Prenzlau</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 29.568201792905px; left: 196.43119014818px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">2</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 29.568201792905px; left: 189.93119014818px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Prenzlau" title="Battle of Prenzlau"><img alt="Battle of Prenzlau French victory: Murat Blücher is 63 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/24px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/32px-Invisible_Square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div> <div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 1px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: #FFFFFFFF; top: 74.276074172824px; left: 163.75467502212px; width: 14px; height: 14px; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #808000; color:inherit;"></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; line-height: 0.98; white-space: nowrap; top: 85.276074172824px; left: 185.25467502212px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%) rotate(0deg); background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span style="color: #808000; font-size: 12px; font-weight:normal;"> Jena–Auerstedt</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; top: 74.276074172824px; left: 170.25467502212px; width: fit-content; text-align: center; transform: translateX(-50%); background-color:transparent; color:inherit; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">1</span></div><div style="display:inline-block; position: absolute; outline-width: 0px; top: 74.276074172824px; left: 163.75467502212px; width: 14px; height: 14px; background-color: transparent; color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jena%E2%80%93Auerstedt" title="Battle of Jena–Auerstedt"><img alt="Battle of Jena–Auerstedt French victory at Auerstedt: Davout Blücher is 63 years old" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Invisible_Square.svg/16px-Invisible_Square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" 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class="thumbcaption"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:olive; color:olive;">    </span> 1806</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:navy; color:navy;">    </span> 1813</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:maroon; color:maroon;">    </span> 1814</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:black; color:black;">    </span> 1815</span></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">German pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="de-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German">[ˈɡɛphaʁt<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈleːbəʁɛçt<span class="wrap"> </span>fɔn<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈblʏçɐ]</a></span>; 21 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), <i><a href="/wiki/Graf" title="Graf">Graf</a></i> (count), later elevated to <i><a href="/wiki/F%C3%BCrst" title="Fürst">Fürst</a></i> (prince) von <a href="/wiki/Wahlstatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Wahlstatt">Wahlstatt</a>, was a <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Prussian</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Generalfeldmarschall" title="Generalfeldmarschall">Generalfeldmarschall</a></i> (field marshal). He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon I">Napoleon I</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig" title="Battle of Leipzig">Battle of the Nations at Leipzig</a> in 1813 and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a> in 1815. </p><p>Blücher was born in <a href="/wiki/Rostock" title="Rostock">Rostock</a>, the son of a retired army captain. His military career began in 1758 as a <a href="/wiki/Hussar" title="Hussar">hussar</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Army" title="Swedish Army">Swedish Army</a>. He was captured by the Prussians in 1760 during the <a href="/wiki/Pomeranian_War" title="Pomeranian War">Pomeranian Campaign</a> and thereafter joined the <a href="/wiki/Prussian_Army" title="Prussian Army">Prussian Army</a>, serving as a hussar officer for Prussia during the remainder of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>. In 1773, Blücher was forced to resign by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_the_Great" title="Frederick the Great">Frederick the Great</a> for insubordination. He worked as a farmer until the death of Frederick in 1786, when Blücher was reinstated and promoted to colonel. For his success in the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a>, Blücher became a major general in 1794. He became a lieutenant general in 1801 and commanded the cavalry corps during the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> in 1806. </p><p>War broke out between Prussia and France again in 1813 and Blücher returned to active service at the age of 71. He became a leading hero of the Germans in the struggle to end foreign domination of their lands. He was appointed full general over the Prussian field forces and clashed with Napoleon at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_L%C3%BCtzen_(1813)" title="Battle of Lützen (1813)">Battles of Lützen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bautzen_(1813)" title="Battle of Bautzen (1813)">Bautzen</a>. Later he won a critical victory over the French at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Katzbach" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Katzbach">Battle of Katzbach</a>. Blücher commanded the Prussian Army of <a href="/wiki/Silesia" title="Silesia">Silesia</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig" title="Battle of Leipzig">Battle of the Nations</a> where Napoleon was decisively defeated. For his role, Blücher was made a field marshal and received his title of Prince of <a href="/wiki/Wahlstatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Wahlstatt">Wahlstatt</a>. After Napoleon's return in 1815, Blücher took command of the Prussian Army of the <a href="/wiki/Lower_Rhine" title="Lower Rhine">Lower Rhine</a> and coordinated his force with that of the British and Allied forces under the <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Duke of Wellington</a>. At the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ligny" title="Battle of Ligny">Battle of Ligny</a>, he was severely injured and the Prussians retreated. After recovering, Blücher resumed command and joined Wellington at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a>, with the intervention of Blücher's army playing a decisive role in the final allied victory. </p><p>Blücher was made an honorary citizen of <a href="/wiki/List_of_honorary_citizens_of_Berlin" title="List of honorary citizens of Berlin">Berlin</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Honorary_Citizens_of_Hamburg" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Honorary Citizens of Hamburg">Hamburg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rostock" title="Rostock">Rostock</a>. Known for his fiery personality, he was nicknamed <i>Marschall Vorwärts</i> ("Marshal Forward") by his soldiers because of his aggressive approach in warfare.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014xi_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014xi-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Along with <a href="/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg" title="Paul von Hindenburg">Paul von Hindenburg</a>, he was the most highly decorated Prussian-German soldier in history: Blücher and Hindenburg are the only Prussian-German military officers to have been awarded the <a href="/wiki/Star_of_the_Grand_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross" title="Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross">Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross</a>. A statue once stood in the square that bore his name, <i>Blücherplatz</i>, in <a href="/wiki/Breslau" class="mw-redirect" title="Breslau">Breslau</a> (today Wrocław).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blücher was born on 21 December 1742 in <a href="/wiki/Rostock" title="Rostock">Rostock</a>, a Baltic port in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Germany" title="Northern Germany">northern Germany</a>, then in the <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin" title="Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin">Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father Christian Friedrich von Blücher (1696–1761), was a retired army captain, and his family belonged to the nobility and had been landowners in northern Germany since at least the 13th century. His mother was Dorothea Maria von Zülow (1702–1769), who also belonged to an old noble family from <a href="/wiki/Mecklenburg" title="Mecklenburg">Mecklenburg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gebhard began his military career at the age of 16,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when he joined the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Army" title="Swedish Army">Swedish Army</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Hussar" title="Hussar">hussar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeggiere20146_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeggiere20146-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a> was at war with <a href="/wiki/Prussia" title="Prussia">Prussia</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>. Blücher took part in the <a href="/wiki/Pomeranian_War" title="Pomeranian War">Pomeranian campaign</a> of 1760, where Prussian hussars captured him in a skirmish. The colonel of the Prussian regiment, <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Sebastian_von_Belling" title="Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling">Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling</a> (a distant relative), was impressed with the young hussar and had him join his own regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeggiere201411_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeggiere201411-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blücher took part in the later battles of the Seven Years' War, and as a hussar officer, gained much experience in light cavalry work. In peace, however, his ardent spirit led him into excesses of all kinds, such as the <a href="/wiki/Mock_execution" title="Mock execution">mock execution</a> of a priest suspected of supporting <a href="/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland#First_Partition" title="Partitions of Poland">Polish uprisings in 1772</a>. As a result, he was passed over for promotion to <a href="/wiki/Major_(rank)" title="Major (rank)">major</a>. Blücher submitted a rude letter of resignation in 1773, which <a href="/wiki/Frederick_II_of_Prussia" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick II of Prussia">Frederick the Great</a> replied to with "Captain Blücher can take himself to the devil" (1773).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blücher settled down to farming. Within 15 years, he had acquired financial independence and had become a <a href="/wiki/Freemasonry" title="Freemasonry">Freemason</a>. During Frederick the Great's lifetime, Blücher could not return to the army. However, the monarch died in 1786, and the following year, Blücher was reinstated as a major in his old regiment, the Red Hussars. He took part in the expedition to the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> in 1787, and the next year was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In 1789, he received Prussia's highest <a href="/wiki/Military_decoration" class="mw-redirect" title="Military decoration">military order</a>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Pour_le_M%C3%A9rite" title="Pour le Mérite">Pour le Mérite</a></i>, and in 1794, he became colonel of the Red Hussars. In 1793 and 1794, Blücher distinguished himself in cavalry actions against the French, and for his victory at <a href="/wiki/Kirrweiler" title="Kirrweiler">Kirrweiler</a> on 28 May 1794, he was promoted to major general. In 1801, he was made a lieutenant general.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Napoleonic_Wars">Napoleonic Wars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Napoleonic Wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marschall_Vorw%C3%A4rts_(1863).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Marschall_Vorw%C3%A4rts_%281863%29.jpg/220px-Marschall_Vorw%C3%A4rts_%281863%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Marschall_Vorw%C3%A4rts_%281863%29.jpg/330px-Marschall_Vorw%C3%A4rts_%281863%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Marschall_Vorw%C3%A4rts_%281863%29.jpg/440px-Marschall_Vorw%C3%A4rts_%281863%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3299" data-file-height="4609" /></a><figcaption><i>Marschall Vorwärts</i> by <a href="/wiki/Emil_H%C3%BCnten" title="Emil Hünten">Emil Hünten</a> (1863)</figcaption></figure> <p>Blücher was one of the leaders of the war party in Prussia in 1805, and he served as a cavalry general in the disastrous campaign of 1806. At the double <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jena-Auerstedt" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Jena-Auerstedt">Battle of Jena-Auerstedt</a>, Blücher fought at <a href="/wiki/Auerstedt" title="Auerstedt">Auerstedt</a>, repeatedly leading the charges of the Prussian cavalry, but without success. During the retreat of the broken armies, he commanded the rearguard composed of <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Louis,_Prince_of_Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen">Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe</a>'s corps.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the <a href="/wiki/Surrender_(military)" title="Surrender (military)">capitulation</a> of the main body after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Prenzlau" title="Battle of Prenzlau">Battle of Prenzlau</a> on 28 October,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he found his march toward the north-east blocked.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014108_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014108-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He led the remnant of his corps away to the north-west.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reinforcing his numbers with a division previously commanded by <a href="/wiki/Karl_August,_Grand_Duke_of_Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach" title="Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach">Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar</a>, Blücher and his new <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_staff" title="Chief of staff">chief of staff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gerhard_von_Scharnhorst" title="Gerhard von Scharnhorst">Gerhard von Scharnhorst</a>, reorganised his forces into two small corps totaling 21,000 men and 44 cannons.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014108–109_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014108–109-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, he was defeated by two French corps at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_L%C3%BCbeck" title="Battle of Lübeck">Battle of Lübeck</a> <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on 6 November. The next day, trapped against the <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Danish</a> frontier by 40,000 French troops, he was compelled to surrender with less than 10,000 soldiers at <a href="/wiki/Ratekau" title="Ratekau">Ratekau</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014110_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014110-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blücher insisted that clauses be written in the capitulation document that he had had to surrender due to lack of provisions and ammunition,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that his soldiers should be honoured by a French formation along the street. He was allowed to keep his sabre and to move freely, bound only by his <a href="/wiki/Parole" title="Parole">word of honour</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014111_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014111-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was soon exchanged for future Marshal <a href="/wiki/Claude_Perrin_Victor" class="mw-redirect" title="Claude Perrin Victor">Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno</a>, and was actively employed in Pomerania, at <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, and at <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg" title="Königsberg">Königsberg</a> until the conclusion of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the war, Blücher was looked upon as the natural leader of the Patriot Party, with which he was in close touch during the period of Napoleonic domination, but his hopes of an alliance with <a href="/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire">Austria</a> in the war of 1809 were disappointed. In this year, he was made general of cavalry. In 1812, he expressed himself so openly on the alliance of Russia with France that he was recalled from his military governorship of Pomerania and virtually banished from the court.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_in_Bautzen_1813.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_in_Bautzen_1813.jpg/220px-Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_in_Bautzen_1813.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_in_Bautzen_1813.jpg/330px-Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_in_Bautzen_1813.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_in_Bautzen_1813.jpg/440px-Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_in_Bautzen_1813.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1134" data-file-height="767" /></a><figcaption><i>Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher in Bautzen</i> by <a href="/wiki/Bogdan_Willewalde" title="Bogdan Willewalde">Bogdan Willewalde</a> (1885)</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the start of the <a href="/wiki/German_Campaign_of_1813" class="mw-redirect" title="German Campaign of 1813">War of Liberation</a> in the spring of 1813, Blücher was again placed in high command, and he was present at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_L%C3%BCtzen_(1813)" title="Battle of Lützen (1813)">Lützen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bautzen_(1813)" title="Battle of Bautzen (1813)">Bautzen</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/German_Campaign_of_1813#Summer_truce" class="mw-redirect" title="German Campaign of 1813">summer truce</a>, he worked on the organisation of the Prussian forces; when the war was resumed, he became commander-in-chief of the Army of Silesia, with <a href="/wiki/August_von_Gneisenau" class="mw-redirect" title="August von Gneisenau">August von Gneisenau</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Karl_Ferdinand,_Freiherr_von_M%C3%BCffling" class="mw-redirect" title="Friedrich Karl Ferdinand, Freiherr von Müffling">Karl von Müffling</a> as his principal staff officers and 40,000 Prussians and 50,000 Russians under his command during the <a href="/wiki/German_Campaign_of_1813#Autumn_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="German Campaign of 1813">autumn campaign</a>. The most conspicuous military quality displayed by Blücher was his unrelenting energy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The irresolution and divergence of interests usual in <a href="/wiki/Sixth_Coalition" class="mw-redirect" title="Sixth Coalition">Sixth Coalition</a> armies found in him a restless opponent. Knowing that if he could not induce others to co-operate, he was prepared to attempt the task at hand by himself, which often caused other generals to follow his lead. He defeated <a href="/wiki/Etienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre_MacDonald" class="mw-redirect" title="Etienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald">Marshal MacDonald</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Katzbach" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Katzbach">Katzbach</a>, and by his victory over <a href="/wiki/Auguste_Marmont" class="mw-redirect" title="Auguste Marmont">Marshal Marmont</a> at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_M%C3%B6ckern#October_1813" title="Battle of Möckern">Möckern</a> led the way to the decisive defeat of <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a> at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig" title="Battle of Leipzig">the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig</a>. Blücher's own army stormed Leipzig on the evening of the last day of the battle.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was the fourth battle between Napoleon and Blücher, and the first that Blücher had won.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On the day of Möckern (16 October 1813), Blücher was made a field marshal. He later earned the nickname "Marshal Forwards" due to his tireless energy.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> And after the victory, he pursued the French with his accustomed energy. In the winter of 1813–1814, Blücher, with his chief staff officers, was mainly instrumental in inducing the Coalition sovereigns to carry the war into France itself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cruikshank_-_Old_Blucher_beating_the_Corsican_Big_Drum.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Cruikshank_-_Old_Blucher_beating_the_Corsican_Big_Drum.png/220px-Cruikshank_-_Old_Blucher_beating_the_Corsican_Big_Drum.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Cruikshank_-_Old_Blucher_beating_the_Corsican_Big_Drum.png/330px-Cruikshank_-_Old_Blucher_beating_the_Corsican_Big_Drum.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Cruikshank_-_Old_Blucher_beating_the_Corsican_Big_Drum.png/440px-Cruikshank_-_Old_Blucher_beating_the_Corsican_Big_Drum.png 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1671" /></a><figcaption><i>Old Blucher Beating the Corsican Big Drum</i>, <a href="/wiki/George_Cruikshank" title="George Cruikshank">George Cruikshank</a>, 8 April 1814</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brienne" title="Battle of Brienne">Battle of Brienne</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Rothi%C3%A8re" title="Battle of La Rothière">Battle of La Rothière</a> were the chief incidents of the first stage of the celebrated <a href="/wiki/Campaign_in_north-east_France_(1814)" title="Campaign in north-east France (1814)">1814 campaign in north-east France</a>, and they were quickly followed by victories of Napoleon over Blücher at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Champaubert" title="Battle of Champaubert">Champaubert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vauchamps" title="Battle of Vauchamps">Vauchamps</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Montmirail" title="Battle of Montmirail">Montmirail</a>. The courage of the Prussian leader was undiminished, though, and his victory against the vastly outnumbered French, at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Laon" title="Battle of Laon">Laon</a> (9 and 10 March) practically decided the fate of the campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, his health had been severely affected by the strains of the previous two months, and he now suffered a breakdown, during which he lost his sight and suffered a delusion that a Frenchman had impregnated him with an elephant.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMontefiore2016313_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMontefiore2016313-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dominic Lieven wrote that the breakdown, "revealed the fragility of the coalition armies' command structure and just how much the Army of Silesia had depended on Blücher's drive, courage, and charisma.... The result was that for more than a week after the battle of Laon, the Army of Silesia... played no useful role in the war".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELieven2009[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidSIluE2igp5YCpgPT589_502]–503_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELieven2009[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidSIluE2igp5YCpgPT589_502]–503-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After this, Blücher infused some of his energy into the operations of the <a href="/wiki/Karl_Philipp_F%C3%BCrst_zu_Schwarzenberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg">Prince Schwarzenberg</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Army_of_Bohemia" title="Army of Bohemia">Army of Bohemia</a>, and at last this army and the Army of Silesia marched in one body directly towards Paris. The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paris_(1814)" title="Battle of Paris (1814)">victory of Montmartre</a>, the entry of the allies into the French capital, and the overthrow of the <a href="/wiki/First_French_Empire" title="First French Empire">First Empire</a> were the direct consequences.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blücher was in favour of punishing the city of Paris severely for the sufferings of Prussia at the hands of the French armies, but the allied commanders intervened. According to the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington" class="mw-redirect" title="Duke of Wellington">Duke of Wellington</a>, one of Blücher's plans involved blowing up the <a href="/wiki/Jena_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Jena Bridge">Jena Bridge</a> near the <a href="/wiki/Champ_de_Mars" title="Champ de Mars">Champ de Mars</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>About blowing up the bridge of Jena there were two parties in the Prussian Army — Gneisenau and Muffling against, but Blücher violently for it. In spite of all I could do, he did make the attempt, even while I believe my sentinel was standing at one end of the bridge. But the Prussians had no experience of blowing up bridges. We, who had blown up so many in Spain, could have done it in five minutes. The Prussians made a hole in one of the pillars, but their powder blew out instead of up, and I believe hurt some of their own people.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStanhope1888119_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanhope1888119-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>In gratitude for his victories in 1814, King <a href="/wiki/Frederick_William_III_of_Prussia" title="Frederick William III of Prussia">Frederick William III of Prussia</a> created Blücher <i>Prince (Fürst) of Wahlstatt</i> (in Silesia on the Katzbach battlefield).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The king also awarded him estates near Krieblowitz (now <a href="/wiki/Krobielowice" title="Krobielowice">Krobielowice</a>, Poland) in Lower Silesia and a grand mansion at 2, <a href="/wiki/Pariser_Platz" title="Pariser Platz">Pariser Platz</a> in Berlin (which in 1930 became the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Berlin" title="Embassy of the United States, Berlin">Embassy of the United States, Berlin</a>).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Soon afterward, Blücher <a href="/wiki/Allied_sovereigns%27_visit_to_England" title="Allied sovereigns' visit to England">paid a visit to England</a>, where he was received with royal honours and cheered enthusiastically everywhere he went.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a> granted him an honorary doctorate (doctor of laws), he is supposed to have joked that if he was made a doctor, they should at least make Gneisenau an <a href="/wiki/Apothecary" title="Apothecary">apothecary</a>; "...for if I wrote the prescription, he made the pills." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hundred_Days_and_later_life">Hundred Days and later life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hundred Days and later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prussian_Attack_Plancenoit_by_Adolf_Northern.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Prussian_Attack_Plancenoit_by_Adolf_Northern.jpg/260px-Prussian_Attack_Plancenoit_by_Adolf_Northern.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Prussian_Attack_Plancenoit_by_Adolf_Northern.jpg/390px-Prussian_Attack_Plancenoit_by_Adolf_Northern.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Prussian_Attack_Plancenoit_by_Adolf_Northern.jpg/520px-Prussian_Attack_Plancenoit_by_Adolf_Northern.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1188" data-file-height="795" /></a><figcaption>The Prussian attack on <a href="/wiki/Plancenoit" title="Plancenoit">Plancenoit</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a>, painted by <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Northen" title="Adolph Northen">Adolph Northen</a></figcaption></figure> <p>After the war, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_William_III_of_Prussia" title="Frederick William III of Prussia">Frederick William III</a> gave Blücher properties in the area of Neustadt (now <a href="/wiki/Prudnik" title="Prudnik">Prudnik</a>). In November of the same year, Blücher leased <a href="/wiki/Trzebina,_Opole_Voivodeship" title="Trzebina, Opole Voivodeship">Kunzendorf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mi%C5%82owice,_Opole_Voivodeship" title="Miłowice, Opole Voivodeship">Mühlsdorf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wierzbiec" title="Wierzbiec">Wackenau</a> and <a href="/wiki/W%C5%82%C3%B3czno" title="Włóczno">Achthuben</a> to a local farmer, Hübner, in exchange for 2,000 <a href="/wiki/Thaler" title="Thaler">thalers</a>, rolls of linen cloth and yarn. His wife also moved to Kunzendorf. While living in the area of Neustadt, he financed the families of the fallen soldiers, gave a few liters of beer to the local parish priest every day, and paid a doctor from Neustadt to treat the poor. Thanks to his efforts, a health resort called "Blücher's Spring" was established in Kunzendorf (it was destroyed together with the castle as a result of the battles of the Neustadt in 1945).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the war, Blücher retired to Silesia. However, the return of Napoleon from <a href="/wiki/Elba" title="Elba">Elba</a> and his entry into Paris at the start of the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Days" title="Hundred Days">Hundred Days</a>, called him back to service. He was put in command of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_battle_of_the_Waterloo_Campaign#Prussian_Army_Order_of_Battle" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of battle of the Waterloo Campaign">Army of the Lower Rhine</a>, with Gneisenau serving again as his chief of staff. At the outset of the <a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterloo Campaign">Waterloo Campaign</a> of 1815, the Prussians sustained a serious defeat at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ligny" title="Battle of Ligny">Ligny</a> (16 June), in the course of which the old field marshal lay trapped under his dead horse for several hours and was repeatedly ridden over by cavalry, his life saved only by the devotion of his <a href="/wiki/Aide-de-camp" title="Aide-de-camp">aide-de-camp</a> Count <a href="/wiki/August_Ludwig_von_Nostitz" title="August Ludwig von Nostitz">Nostitz</a>, who threw a greatcoat over his commander to obscure Blücher's rank and identity from the passing French. As Blücher was unable to resume command for some hours, Gneisenau took command, drew off the defeated army, and rallied it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In spite of Gneisenau's distrust of Wellington, he obeyed Blücher's last orders to direct the army's retreat towards <a href="/wiki/Wavre" title="Wavre">Wavre</a>, rather than <a href="/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge" title="Liège">Liège</a>, to keep alive the possibility of joining the Prussian and Wellington's Anglo-allied armies together.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECornwell2015Chapter_6,_p._[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidz6N3CgAAQBAJpgPT93_93–94?]_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECornwell2015Chapter_6,_p._[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidz6N3CgAAQBAJpgPT93_93–94?]-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After bathing his wounds in a liniment of <a href="/wiki/Rhubarb" title="Rhubarb">rhubarb</a> and <a href="/wiki/Garlic" title="Garlic">garlic</a>, and fortified by a liberal internal dose of <a href="/wiki/Schnapps" title="Schnapps">schnapps</a>, Blücher rejoined his army. Gneisenau feared that the British had reneged on their earlier agreements and favoured a withdrawal, but Blücher convinced him to send two corps to join Wellington at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Waterloo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarbero2006[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_May_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(May_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarbero2006[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_May_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(May_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECornwell2015Chapter_6,_p._[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidz6N3CgAAQBAJpgPT94_94?]_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECornwell2015Chapter_6,_p._[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidz6N3CgAAQBAJpgPT94_94?]-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then led his army on a tortuous march along muddy paths, arriving on the field of Waterloo in the late afternoon. In spite of his age, the pain of his wounds, and the effort it must have taken for him to remain on horseback, <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Cornwell" title="Bernard Cornwell">Bernard Cornwell</a> states that several soldiers attested to Blücher's high spirits and his determination to defeat Napoleon: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"Forwards!" he was quoted as saying. "I hear you say it's impossible, but it has to be done! I have given my promise to Wellington, and you surely don't want me to break it? Push yourselves, my children, and we'll have victory!" It is impossible not to like Blücher. He was 74 years ( [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>]) old,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> still in pain and discomfort from his adventures at Ligny, still stinking of schnapps and of rhubarb liniment, yet he is all enthusiasm and energy. If Napoleon's demeanour that day was one of sullen disdain for an enemy he underestimated, and Wellington's a cold, calculating calmness that hid concern, then Blücher is all passion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECornwell2015Chapter_9,_p._[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidz6N3CgAAQBAJpgPT158_158?]_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECornwell2015Chapter_9,_p._[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidz6N3CgAAQBAJpgPT158_158?]-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>With the battle hanging in the balance, Blücher's army intervened with decisive and crushing effect, his vanguard drawing off Napoleon's badly needed reserves, and his main body being instrumental in crushing French resistance. This victory led the way to a decisive victory through the <a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Campaign#Invasion_of_France_and_the_occupation_of_Paris_(18_June_–_7_July)" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterloo Campaign">relentless pursuit</a> of the French by the Prussians.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two Coalition armies <a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Campaign#Third_week_(2–7_July)" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterloo Campaign">entered Paris on 7 July</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SM_Krobielowice_Mauzoleum_Bluchera_(15)_ID_599647.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/SM_Krobielowice_Mauzoleum_Bluchera_%2815%29_ID_599647.jpg/220px-SM_Krobielowice_Mauzoleum_Bluchera_%2815%29_ID_599647.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/SM_Krobielowice_Mauzoleum_Bluchera_%2815%29_ID_599647.jpg/330px-SM_Krobielowice_Mauzoleum_Bluchera_%2815%29_ID_599647.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/SM_Krobielowice_Mauzoleum_Bluchera_%2815%29_ID_599647.jpg/440px-SM_Krobielowice_Mauzoleum_Bluchera_%2815%29_ID_599647.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3150" data-file-height="3150" /></a><figcaption>Blücher Mausoleum in <a href="/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany" title="Former eastern territories of Germany">ex-German</a> Krieblowitz (now <a href="/wiki/Krobielowice" title="Krobielowice">Krobielowice</a>, Poland).</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Thomas_Lawrence_(1769-1830)_-_Field-Marshal_Gebhardt_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_(1742-1819)_-_RCIN_405148_-_Royal_Collection.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Sir_Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_Field-Marshal_Gebhardt_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_%281742-1819%29_-_RCIN_405148_-_Royal_Collection.jpg/220px-Sir_Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_Field-Marshal_Gebhardt_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_%281742-1819%29_-_RCIN_405148_-_Royal_Collection.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="334" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Sir_Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_Field-Marshal_Gebhardt_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_%281742-1819%29_-_RCIN_405148_-_Royal_Collection.jpg/330px-Sir_Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_Field-Marshal_Gebhardt_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_%281742-1819%29_-_RCIN_405148_-_Royal_Collection.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Sir_Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_Field-Marshal_Gebhardt_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_%281742-1819%29_-_RCIN_405148_-_Royal_Collection.jpg/440px-Sir_Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_Field-Marshal_Gebhardt_von_Bl%C3%BCcher_%281742-1819%29_-_RCIN_405148_-_Royal_Collection.jpg 2x" data-file-width="506" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Portrait_of_Marshal_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Portrait of Marshal Blücher">Portrait of Marshal Blücher</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Lawrence" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas Lawrence">Sir Thomas Lawrence</a>. It now hangs in the <a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Chamber" title="Waterloo Chamber">Waterloo Chamber</a> at <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Castle" title="Windsor Castle">Windsor Castle</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Blücher remained in the French capital for a few months, but his age and infirmities compelled him to retire to his Silesian residence at Krieblowitz.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the invitation of the British government, he made another state visit to England, to be formally thanked for his army and his role in the Waterloo Campaign. When his carriage stopped on <a href="/wiki/Blackheath,_London" title="Blackheath, London">Blackheath Hill</a>, overlooking London, he is said to have exclaimed, "What a city to sack!"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECornwell2015Afterword_p._[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidz6N3CgAAQBAJpgPT239_239?]_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECornwell2015Afterword_p._[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidz6N3CgAAQBAJpgPT239_239?]-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died at Krieblowitz on 12 September 1819, aged 76.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his death, an imposing mausoleum was built for his remains. </p><p>When Krieblowitz was conquered by the Red Army in 1945, Soviet soldiers broke into the Blücher mausoleum and scattered the remains. Soviet troops reportedly used his skull as a football. After 1989, some of his remains were taken by a Polish priest and interred in the catacomb of the church in <a href="/wiki/So%C5%9Bnica,_Lower_Silesian_Voivodeship" title="Sośnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship">Sośnica</a> (German: Schosnitz), three km from the now Polish Krobielowice.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidtwXBAgAAQBAJpgPA448_448]–[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidtwXBAgAAQBAJpgPA449_449]_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidtwXBAgAAQBAJpgPA448_448]–[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidtwXBAgAAQBAJpgPA449_449]-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assessment">Assessment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Assessment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Napoleon characterised him as a very brave soldier with no talent as a general, but he admired his attitude, which he described as a bull that looks all around him with rolling eyes and, when he sees danger, charges. Napoleon thought of him as stubborn and untiring, knowing no fear. He called him an old rascal who was always able to get up on his feet again and be ready for the next battle as, following a sound defeat, Blücher had, almost instantly, returned to attack him vigorously again. <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKircheisen2010184_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKircheisen2010184-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was to be said later among the Prussian military that Blücher established "a Prussian way of war" that had abiding influence: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The key to this way of war was Blücher’s concept of victory. Like Napoleon, he placed tremendous emphasis on the decisive battle and achieving a decisive victory as quickly as possible at any cost. Also like Napoleon, he measured victory and defeat only in terms of battlefield results. Deviating very little from the Corsican’s art of war, the objective of Blücher’s Prussian way of war was to make contact with the enemy as quickly as possible, concentrate all forces, deliver the decisive blow, and end the war.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>More generally, Blücher was a courageous and popular general who "had much to be proud of: energy, controlled aggression and a commitment to defeating the enemy army."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campaigns">Campaigns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Campaigns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1760: Pomeranian Campaign (as <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Swedish</a> soldier; captured by Prussia; changed sides)</li> <li>Seven Years' War</li> <li>1787: Expedition to the Netherlands with Red Hussars</li> <li>1793–1794: French campaigns with Red Hussars</li> <li>1806: Auerstedt, Pomerania, Berlin, Königsberg</li> <li>1813: Lützen, Bautzen, Katzbach, Möckern, Leipzig</li> <li>1814: Brienne, La Rothière, Champaubert, Vauchamps, Château-Thierry, Montmirail, Laon, Montmartre</li> <li>1815: Lower Rhine (<a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ligny" title="Battle of Ligny">Battle of Ligny</a>), <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bl%C3%BCcher_von_Wahlstadt_-_Tyroff_HA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bl%C3%BCcher_von_Wahlstadt_-_Tyroff_HA.jpg/130px-Bl%C3%BCcher_von_Wahlstadt_-_Tyroff_HA.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bl%C3%BCcher_von_Wahlstadt_-_Tyroff_HA.jpg/195px-Bl%C3%BCcher_von_Wahlstadt_-_Tyroff_HA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bl%C3%BCcher_von_Wahlstadt_-_Tyroff_HA.jpg/260px-Bl%C3%BCcher_von_Wahlstadt_-_Tyroff_HA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="634" data-file-height="808" /></a><figcaption>Coat of Arms of Count Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt</figcaption></figure> <p>His campaign journal covering the years 1793 to 1794 was published in 1796: </p> <ul><li><i>Kampagne-Journal der Jahre 1793 und 1794</i><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Berlin: Decker, 1796)</li></ul> <p>A second edition of this diary, together with some of Blücher's letters, was published in 1914: </p> <ul><li><i>Vorwärts! Ein Husaren-Tagebuch und Feldzugsbriefe von Gebhardt Leberecht von Blücher</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> introduced by General Field Marshal <a href="/wiki/Colmar_Freiherr_von_der_Goltz" title="Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz">von der Goltz</a>, edited by Heinrich Conrad (Munich: G. Müller, [1914])</li></ul> <p>His collected writings and letters (together with those of <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Yorck_von_Wartenburg" title="Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg">Yorck</a> and Gneisenau) appeared in 1932: </p> <ul><li><i>Gesammelte Schriften und Briefe</i> / Blücher, Yorck, Gneisenau,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> compiled and edited by Edmund Th. 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Ulrich Hans <a href="/wiki/Bl%C3%BCcher_(surname)" title="Blücher (surname)">von Blücher</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;">4. Siegfried Ulrich <a href="/wiki/Bl%C3%BCcher_(surname)" title="Blücher (surname)">von Blücher</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">9. Anna Sophia von Dechow</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #fb9;">2. Christian Friedrich <a href="/wiki/Bl%C3%BCcher_(surname)" title="Blücher (surname)">von Blücher</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">10. Franz Henning von Winterfeld, <i>Herr auf Kirch-Mulsow</i></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;">5. Ida Margarete von Winterfeld</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">11. Adelheid <a href="/wiki/Von_Moltke" class="mw-redirect" title="Von Moltke">von Moltke</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #fcc;">1. <b>Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt</b></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="11"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="28" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">12. Hans Joachim von Zülow, <i>Herr auf Zülow</i></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;">6. Barthold Hans von Zülow, <i>Herr auf Pätrow und Toitenwinkel</i></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">13. Ida von Rantzau</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #fb9;">3. Dorothea Maria von Zülow</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="13"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="12" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">14. Balthasar Valentin von Both</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;">7. Dorothea Maria von Both</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="5"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="4" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">15. Katharina Dorothea von Lützow</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_descendants">Family and descendants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Family and descendants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blücher was married twice: in 1773 to Karoline Amalie von Mehling (1756–1791) and, after her death, in 1795 to <a href="/wiki/File:Bluecher_Katharine_Amalie_.jpg" title="File:Bluecher Katharine Amalie .jpg">Katharine Amalie von Colomb</a> (1772–1850), sister of General <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_August_Peter_von_Colomb" title="Friedrich August Peter von Colomb">Peter von Colomb</a>. While this second marriage was without issue, by his first marriage Blücher had seven children, of whom two sons and a daughter survived infancy: </p> <ul><li>Franz Ferdinand Joachim (1778–1829), major general in the Prussian army, wounded in battle in 1813 and thereafter mentally ill; married Bernhardine von Sass and had issue</li> <li>Friedrich Gebhardt Lebrecht (1780–1834), married Elisabeth von Conring, no issue</li> <li>Bernhardine Friederike (1786–1870), married firstly Adolf Ernst, Count von der <a href="/wiki/Schulenburg_(surname)" title="Schulenburg (surname)">Schulenburg</a>, married secondly Maximilian Asche, Count von der <a href="/wiki/House_of_Asseburg" title="House of Asseburg">Asseburg</a> and had issue<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The marshal's grandson, Count Gebhard Bernhard von Blücher (1799–1875), was created <i>Prince Blücher of Wahlstatt</i> (<a href="/wiki/Serene_Highness" title="Serene Highness">Serene Highness</a>) in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Kingdom of Prussia</a> on 18 October 1861, a hereditary title in <a href="/wiki/Primogeniture" title="Primogeniture">primogeniture</a>, the other members of his branch bearing the title <i>count</i> or <i>countess</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1832, he bought Raduň Castle in the <a href="/wiki/Opava_District" title="Opava District">Opava District</a> and in 1847 the lands at Wahlstatt, <a href="/wiki/Legnickie_Pole" title="Legnickie Pole">Legnickie Pole</a>, all of which remained in the family until the <a href="/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2%80%9350)" class="mw-redirect" title="Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–50)">flight and expulsion of Germans</a> from Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1945, which forced the family into exile in their mansion <a href="/wiki/Havilland_Hall" title="Havilland Hall">Havilland Hall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Guernsey" title="Guernsey">Guernsey</a>, acquired by the 4th prince and his English wife, <a href="/wiki/Evelyn,_Princess_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="Evelyn, Princess Blücher">Evelyn, Princess Blücher</a>. Later the family moved to <a href="/wiki/Eurasburg" title="Eurasburg">Eurasburg</a>, Bavaria. The present head of the House of <i>Blücher von Wahlstatt</i> is Nicolaus, 8th Prince Blücher of Wahlstatt (born 1932), the heir apparent is his son, hereditary count Lukas (born 1956).<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He received the following orders and decorations:<sup id="cite_ref-Preußen1818_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Preußen1818-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281750-1801%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281750-1801%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281750-1801%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281750-1801%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281750-1801%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_%281750-1801%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Kingdom of Prussia</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pour_le_M%C3%A9rite" title="Pour le Mérite">Pour le Mérite</a>, <i>4 June 1789</i><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Black_Eagle" title="Order of the Black Eagle">Knight of the Black Eagle</a>, <i>April 1807</i><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Red_Eagle" title="Order of the Red Eagle">Knight of the Red Eagle</a><sup id="cite_ref-Rumpf1814_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rumpf1814-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iron_Cross" title="Iron Cross">Iron Cross</a>, 1st Class; <a href="/wiki/Grand_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross" title="Grand Cross of the Iron Cross">Grand Cross</a>, <i>1813</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-Rumpf1814_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rumpf1814-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Star_of_the_Grand_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross" title="Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross">with Star</a>, <i>1815</i></li></ul></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Habsburg_Monarchy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire">Austrian Empire</a>: <a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_Maria_Theresa" title="Military Order of Maria Theresa">Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa</a>, <i>1813</i><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Elephant" title="Order of the Elephant">Knight of the Elephant</a>, <i>4 July 1815</i><sup id="cite_ref-Berlien1846_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berlien1846-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg/45px-Flag_of_Hanover_1837-1866.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hanover" title="Kingdom of Hanover">Kingdom of Hanover</a>: <a href="/wiki/Royal_Guelphic_Order" title="Royal Guelphic Order">Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order</a>, <i>1816</i><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Hesse" title="Hesse"><img alt="Hesse" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Hesse.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hesse.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Hesse.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hesse.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Hesse.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hesse.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Electorate_of_Hesse" title="Electorate of Hesse">Electorate of Hesse</a>: <a href="/wiki/House_Order_of_the_Golden_Lion_(Hesse-Kassel)" class="mw-redirect" title="House Order of the Golden Lion (Hesse-Kassel)">Grand Cross of the Golden Lion</a>, <i>11 December 1815</i><sup id="cite_ref-Hessen-Kassel1818_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hessen-Kassel1818-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>: <a href="/wiki/Military_William_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Military William Order">Grand Cross of the Military William Order</a>, <i>8 July 1815</i><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain_%281785%E2%80%931873%2C_1875%E2%80%931931%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Charles_III" title="Order of Charles III">Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III</a>, <i>3 July 1811</i><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Svensk_flagg_1815.svg/21px-Svensk_flagg_1815.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Svensk_flagg_1815.svg/32px-Svensk_flagg_1815.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Svensk_flagg_1815.svg/42px-Svensk_flagg_1815.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="735" data-file-height="525" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a>: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Seraphim" title="Order of the Seraphim">Knight of the Seraphim</a>, <i>28 April 1814</i><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span data-sort-value="United Kingdom"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath" title="Order of the Bath">Honorary Grand Cross of the Bath</a> (military), <i>18 August 1815</i><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_W%C3%BCrttemberg.svg/23px-Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_W%C3%BCrttemberg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_W%C3%BCrttemberg.svg/35px-Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_W%C3%BCrttemberg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_W%C3%BCrttemberg.svg/46px-Flagge_K%C3%B6nigreich_W%C3%BCrttemberg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Kingdom of Württemberg">Württemberg</a>: <a href="/wiki/Military_Merit_Order_(W%C3%BCrttemberg)" title="Military Merit Order (Württemberg)">Grand Cross of the Military Merit Order</a>, <i>1814</i><sup id="cite_ref-Württemberg1815_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Württemberg1815-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._George" title="Order of St. George">Knight of St. George, 1st Class</a>, <i>8 October 1813</i><sup id="cite_ref-Russian_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._Andrew" title="Order of St. Andrew">Knight of St. Andrew</a>, <i>11 October 1813</i><sup id="cite_ref-Russian_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._Alexander_Nevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of St. Alexander Nevsky">Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky</a>, <i>11 October 1813</i><sup id="cite_ref-Russian_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._Anna" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of St. Anna">Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Weapon_for_Bravery" title="Golden Weapon for Bravery">Sword of Honour "for Bravery"</a></li></ul></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rostock_Bl%C3%BCcher_Denkmal.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Rostock_Bl%C3%BCcher_Denkmal.jpg/220px-Rostock_Bl%C3%BCcher_Denkmal.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="344" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Rostock_Bl%C3%BCcher_Denkmal.jpg/330px-Rostock_Bl%C3%BCcher_Denkmal.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Rostock_Bl%C3%BCcher_Denkmal.jpg/440px-Rostock_Bl%C3%BCcher_Denkmal.jpg 2x" data-file-width="654" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Blücher monument in front of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Rostock" title="University of Rostock">University of Rostock</a>'s main building, created by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Schadow" title="Johann Gottfried Schadow">Johann Gottfried Schadow</a> in collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Museums">Museums</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Museums"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Rhineland town of <a href="/wiki/Kaub" title="Kaub">Kaub</a> has a museum dedicated to Blücher, commemorating in particular his crossing the Rhine with the Prussian and Russian armies, on New Year's night 1813–1814, in pursuit of the French. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Statues">Statues</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Statues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After Blücher's death, statues were erected to his memory at <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Breslau" class="mw-redirect" title="Breslau">Breslau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rostock" title="Rostock">Rostock</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kaub" title="Kaub">Kaub</a> (where his troops crossed the Rhine in pursuit of Napoleon's forces in 1813). </p><p>Blücher is honoured with a bust in the <a href="/wiki/Walhalla_temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Walhalla temple">Walhalla temple</a> near <a href="/wiki/Regensburg" title="Regensburg">Regensburg</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Locomotives_and_ships">Locomotives and ships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Locomotives and ships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In gratitude for Blücher's service, <a href="/wiki/George_Stephenson" title="George Stephenson">George Stephenson</a>, the pioneering British locomotive engineer, named <a href="/wiki/Killingworth_locomotives" title="Killingworth locomotives">a locomotive</a> after him. The small mining village a few miles from Stephenson's birthplace in Wylam also bears the name Blucher in honour of him. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Blucher_(1814_ship)" title="Blucher (1814 ship)"><i>Blucher</i></a> was named after him, after the original ship was captured by the British and the new owners named it for him. </p><p>Three ships of the German navy have been named in honour of Blücher. The first to be so named was the <a href="/wiki/Corvette" title="Corvette">corvette</a> <a href="/wiki/SMS_Bl%C3%BCcher_(1877)" title="SMS Blücher (1877)">SMS <i>Blücher</i></a>, built at <a href="/wiki/Kiel" title="Kiel">Kiel</a>'s Norddeutsche Schiffbau AG (later renamed the <i><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Krupp_Germaniawerft" title="Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft">Krupp-Germaniawerft</a></i>) and launched 20 March 1877. Taken out of service after a <a href="/wiki/Boiler" title="Boiler">boiler</a> explosion in 1907, she ended her days as a coal freighter in <a href="/wiki/Vigo" title="Vigo">Vigo</a>, Spain. </p><p>On 11 April 1908, the <i><a href="/wiki/Armoured_cruiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Armoured cruiser">Panzerkreuzer</a></i> <a href="/wiki/SMS_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="SMS Blücher">SMS <i>Blücher</i></a> was launched from the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel. This ship was sunk on 24 January 1915 in the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dogger_Bank_(1915)" title="Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)">Battle of Dogger Bank</a>. </p><p>The Second World War German heavy cruiser <i><a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="German cruiser Blücher">Blücher</a></i> was completed in September 1939, and pronounced ready for service on 5 April 1940 after completing a series of sea trials and training exercises. The vessel was sunk four days later near <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operation Weserübung">invasion of Norway</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film_portrayals">Film portrayals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Film portrayals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blücher was played by German actor <a href="/wiki/Otto_Geb%C3%BChr" title="Otto Gebühr">Otto Gebühr</a> in the 1929 film <i><a href="/wiki/Waterloo_(1929_film)" title="Waterloo (1929 film)">Waterloo</a></i>. In 1932, he was the subject of the biographical film <i><a href="/wiki/Marshal_Forwards_(film)" title="Marshal Forwards (film)">Marshal Forwards</a></i>, in which he was played by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Wegener" title="Paul Wegener">Paul Wegener</a>. It was part of a group of <a href="/wiki/Prussian_films" class="mw-redirect" title="Prussian films">Prussian films</a> released during the era. </p><p>He was portrayed by Soviet actor <a href="/wiki/Sergo_Zakariadze" title="Sergo Zakariadze">Sergo Zakariadze</a> in the 1970 Soviet-Italian film <i><a href="/wiki/Waterloo_(1970_film)" title="Waterloo (1970 film)">Waterloo</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Miscellany">Miscellany</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Miscellany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blücher also has a boarding house named after him at <a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a> based <a href="/wiki/Wellington_College,_Berkshire" title="Wellington College, Berkshire">Wellington College</a>. The Blucher, as it is known, is a boys' house renowned for sporting and academic prowess. </p><p>A popular <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> saying, <i>ran wie Blücher gehen</i> ("to charge like Blücher"), meaning that someone is taking very direct and aggressive action, in war or otherwise, refers to Blücher. The full German saying, now obsolete, relates to the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Katzbach" title="Battle of the Katzbach">Battle of the Katzbach</a> in 1813: "<i>ran wie Blücher an der Katzbach gehen</i>" ("to advance like Blücher at Katzbach"), describing vigorous, forceful behaviour.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Blyukher" title="Vasily Blyukher">Vasily Blyukher</a>'s last name was given to his family by a landlord in honour of Gebhard. </p><p>Near <a href="/wiki/Twickenham_Stadium" title="Twickenham Stadium">Twickenham Stadium</a> is the Prince Blucher pub.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 272px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 270px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:2012-06_Trzebina_16.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Castle in Trzebina (German: Kunzendorf), near Prudnik (owned by the Blücher family 1812–1817)"><img alt="Castle in Trzebina (German: Kunzendorf), near Prudnik (owned by the Blücher family 1812–1817)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/2012-06_Trzebina_16.jpg/405px-2012-06_Trzebina_16.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/2012-06_Trzebina_16.jpg/608px-2012-06_Trzebina_16.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/2012-06_Trzebina_16.jpg/810px-2012-06_Trzebina_16.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4159" data-file-height="2773" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Castle in <a href="/wiki/Trzebina,_Opole_Voivodeship" title="Trzebina, Opole Voivodeship">Trzebina</a> (German: Kunzendorf), near <a href="/wiki/Prudnik" title="Prudnik">Prudnik</a> <br />(owned by the Blücher family 1812–1817)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 267.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 265.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Krobielowice-1999AJurk144.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Krobielowice (German: Krieblowitz) Castle, Lower Silesia (owned by the Blücher family 1814–1945)"><img alt="Krobielowice (German: Krieblowitz) Castle, Lower Silesia (owned by the Blücher family 1814–1945)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Krobielowice-1999AJurk144.jpg/398px-Krobielowice-1999AJurk144.jpg" decoding="async" width="266" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Krobielowice-1999AJurk144.jpg/597px-Krobielowice-1999AJurk144.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Krobielowice-1999AJurk144.jpg/796px-Krobielowice-1999AJurk144.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3505" data-file-height="2379" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Krobielowice" title="Krobielowice">Krobielowice</a> (German: Krieblowitz) Castle, Lower Silesia <br />(owned by the Blücher family 1814–1945)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 242px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 240px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Radu%C5%88_-_Castle_01.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Raduň Castle, Czech Republic (owned by the Blücher family 1832–1945)"><img alt="Raduň Castle, Czech Republic (owned by the Blücher family 1832–1945)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Radu%C5%88_-_Castle_01.JPG/360px-Radu%C5%88_-_Castle_01.JPG" decoding="async" width="240" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Radu%C5%88_-_Castle_01.JPG/540px-Radu%C5%88_-_Castle_01.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Radu%C5%88_-_Castle_01.JPG/720px-Radu%C5%88_-_Castle_01.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Raduň Castle, Czech Republic <br />(owned by the Blücher family 1832–1945)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 257.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 255.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-02016,_Berlin,_Bl%C3%BCcher-Palais,_neue_USA-Botschaft.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Blücher-Palais near Brandenburg Gate (U.S. Embassy, 1930–1941)"><img alt="Blücher-Palais near Brandenburg Gate (U.S. Embassy, 1930–1941)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-02016%2C_Berlin%2C_Bl%C3%BCcher-Palais%2C_neue_USA-Botschaft.jpg/383px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-02016%2C_Berlin%2C_Bl%C3%BCcher-Palais%2C_neue_USA-Botschaft.jpg" decoding="async" width="256" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-02016%2C_Berlin%2C_Bl%C3%BCcher-Palais%2C_neue_USA-Botschaft.jpg/575px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-02016%2C_Berlin%2C_Bl%C3%BCcher-Palais%2C_neue_USA-Botschaft.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-02016%2C_Berlin%2C_Bl%C3%BCcher-Palais%2C_neue_USA-Botschaft.jpg/767px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-02016%2C_Berlin%2C_Bl%C3%BCcher-Palais%2C_neue_USA-Botschaft.jpg 2x" data-file-width="792" data-file-height="558" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Blücher-Palais near <a href="/wiki/Pariser_Platz" title="Pariser Platz">Brandenburg Gate</a> (<a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Berlin" title="Embassy of the United States, Berlin">U.S. Embassy, 1930–1941</a>)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Princess_Bl%C3%BCcher" class="mw-redirect" title="Evelyn Princess Blücher">Evelyn Princess Blücher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bl%C3%BCcher_Order" title="Blücher Order">Blücher Order</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blucher_shoe" title="Blucher shoe">Blucher shoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bl%C3%BCchern" title="Blüchern">Blüchern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brothers_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" class="mw-redirect" title="Brothers von Blücher">Brothers von Blücher</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Age of fourteen according to <a href="#CITEREFChisholm1911">Chisholm 1911</a>, p. 80. </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">a life peerage meaning <i>Prince of the Battlefield</i> – after Wahlstatt monastery at <a href="/wiki/Legnickie_Pole" title="Legnickie Pole">Legnickie Pole</a>, the site of the decisive <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Legnica" title="Battle of Legnica">Battle of Legnica</a> (or Battle of Liegnitz; Legnickie Pole is the name created in 1948 for Wahlstatt or 'battlefield', a posthumous name more popular only from the 18th century: to avoid mix-up with the 1760 battle of Liegnitz on 9 April 1241 where the <a href="/wiki/Mongols" title="Mongols">Mongols</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Horde" title="Golden Horde">Golden Horde</a> had defeated a Polish-German army but then retreated to the <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongol Empire</a>, instead of invading the remainder of Europe all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">He was 72, based on his birth date.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014xi-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeggiere2014xi_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLeggiere2014">Leggiere 2014</a>, p. xi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://runeberg.org/nfbd/0072.html">Swedish Encyclopedia "Nordisk Familjebok", vol 4, article "Breslau", column 112</a>; Swedish "<i>Andra öppna plater äro Blücherplatz med Blüchers staty,...</i>"(found left of "Brescia" in column 111); means "Other open places are Blücherplatz with Blüchers' statue,..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-17"><sup><i><b>r</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-18"><sup><i><b>s</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-19"><sup><i><b>t</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-20"><sup><i><b>u</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-21"><sup><i><b>v</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm191180_3-22"><sup><i><b>w</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChisholm1911">Chisholm 1911</a>, p. 80.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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New York: Da Capo Press. p. 119.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Notes+of+conversaciones+with+the+Duke+of+Wellington%2C+1831%E2%80%931851&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=119&rft.pub=Da+Capo+Press&rft.date=1888&rft.aulast=Stanhope&rft.aufirst=Phillips+Henry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVítejte2012" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://patricus.info/Rodokmeny/Bluecher.txt">"Blücher von Wahlstatt family tree"</a>. <i>Vítejte</i>. 3 March 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 May</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=V%C3%ADtejte&rft.atitle=Bl%C3%BCcher+von+Wahlstatt+family+tree&rft.date=2012-03-03&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpatricus.info%2FRodokmeny%2FBluecher.txt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher" class="Z3988"></span> <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag relies on an unreliable source. genealogical website with no reliable sources cited (May 2016)">unreliable source</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <p><b>Attribution</b> </p> <ul><li><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Bl%C3%BCcher,_Gebhard_Leberecht_von" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von">Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 90.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Bl%C3%BCcher%2C+Gebhard+Leberecht+von&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=90&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlücher1932" class="citation book cs1">Blücher (1932). <i>Memoirs of Prince Blücher</i>. Translated by Chapman-Huston, Desmond. London: Murray. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/2231133">2231133</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Memoirs+of+Prince+Bl%C3%BCcher&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Murray&rft.date=1932&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F2231133&rft.au=Bl%C3%BCcher&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrepon1999" class="citation book cs1">Crepon, Tom (1999). <i>Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher: sein Leben, seine Kämpfe</i>. Rostock: Hinsdorff. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-356-00833-1" title="Special:BookSources/3-356-00833-1"><bdi>3-356-00833-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Gebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher%3A+sein+Leben%2C+seine+K%C3%A4mpfe&rft.place=Rostock&rft.pub=Hinsdorff&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=3-356-00833-1&rft.aulast=Crepon&rft.aufirst=Tom&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Eyck, Erich. "Marshal Blücher" <i>History Today</i> (1951) 1#9 pp 41–47. online</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGneisenau1815" class="citation book cs1">Gneisenau, August Wilhelm Anton, Graf Neidhardt von (1815). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008637900"><i>The life and campaigns of Field-Marshal Prince Blücher of Wahlstatt</i></a>. Translated by Marston, James Edward. London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/681606658">681606658</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+life+and+campaigns+of+Field-Marshal+Prince+Bl%C3%BCcher+of+Wahlstatt&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Sherwood%2C+Neely+and+Jones&rft.date=1815&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F681606658&rft.aulast=Gneisenau&rft.aufirst=August+Wilhelm+Anton%2C+Graf+Neidhardt+von&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.hathitrust.org%2FRecord%2F008637900&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list">link</a>)</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHenderson1994" class="citation book cs1">Henderson, Ernest F. (1994). <i>Blücher and the uprising of Prussia against Napoleon, 1806–1815</i>. Aylesford: R.J. Leach. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-873050-14-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-873050-14-3"><bdi>1-873050-14-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bl%C3%BCcher+and+the+uprising+of+Prussia+against+Napoleon%2C+1806%E2%80%931815&rft.place=Aylesford&rft.pub=R.J.+Leach&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=1-873050-14-3&rft.aulast=Henderson&rft.aufirst=Ernest+F.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFParkinson1975" class="citation book cs1">Parkinson, Roger (1975). <i>The Hussar general: the life of Blücher, man of Waterloo</i>. London: P. Davies. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-432-11600-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-432-11600-1"><bdi>0-432-11600-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Hussar+general%3A+the+life+of+Bl%C3%BCcher%2C+man+of+Waterloo&rft.place=London&rft.pub=P.+Davies&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=0-432-11600-1&rft.aulast=Parkinson&rft.aufirst=Roger&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/18px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/24px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span> Media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher">Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher</a> at Wikimedia Commons</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090111233656/http://www.lexikus.de/index.php?page=buch&buch=6"><i>Blüchers Zug von Auerstedt bis Ratekau und Lübecks Schreckenstage (1806)</i></a> – German publication about Blücher</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica,_Ninth_Edition/Bl%C3%BCcher,_Gebhard_Leberecht_von">"Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 3 (9th ed.). 1878.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Bl%C3%BCcher%2C+Gebhard+Leberecht+von&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.edition=9th&rft.date=1878&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGebhard+Leberecht+von+Bl%C3%BCcher" class="Z3988"></span> This source gives "Black Hussars" for the name of his old regiment (altered in the 11th edition to "Red Hussars").</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl 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href="/wiki/First_French_Empire" title="First French Empire">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_Legions_(Napoleonic_period)" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish Legions (Napoleonic period)">Polish Legions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Napoleonic)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Holland" title="Kingdom of Holland">Holland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Etruria" title="Kingdom of Etruria">Etruria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Napoleonic_era#Act_of_Mediation" title="Switzerland in the Napoleonic era">Swiss Confederation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples#Napoleonic_Kingdom_of_Naples" title="Kingdom of Naples">Naples</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederation_of_the_Rhine" title="Confederation of the Rhine">Confederation of the Rhine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bavaria" title="Kingdom of Bavaria">Bavaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Saxony#The_Napoleonic_Era_and_the_German_Confederation" title="Kingdom of Saxony">Saxony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Westphalia" title="Kingdom of Westphalia">Westphalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Kingdom of Württemberg">Württemberg</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denmark%E2%80%93Norway" title="Denmark–Norway">Denmark–Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qajar_dynasty" title="Qajar dynasty">Persia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spain_under_Joseph_Bonaparte" title="Spain under Joseph Bonaparte">Spain</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Coalition_forces_of_the_Napoleonic_Wars" title="Coalition forces of the Napoleonic Wars">Coalition<br />forces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Prussia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Empire" title="Portuguese Empire">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sicily" title="Kingdom of Sicily">Sicily</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_States" title="Papal States">Papal States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qajar_dynasty" title="Qajar dynasty">Persia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sardinia_(1720%E2%80%931861)" title="Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)">Sardinia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sweden#Swedish_Empire" title="Sweden">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="United Kingdom of the Netherlands">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Brunswick" title="Duchy of Brunswick">Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electorate_of_Hanover" title="Electorate of Hanover">Hanover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Nassau#Duchy_of_Nassau" title="Duchy of Nassau">Nassau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Bourbon" title="House of Bourbon">French Royalists</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Major<br />battles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">Prelude</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition" title="War of the First Coalition">First Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Second_Coalition" title="War of the Second Coalition">Second Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coup_of_18_Brumaire" title="Coup of 18 Brumaire">18 Brumaire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon%27s_planned_invasion_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom">Planned invasion of the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Antoine,_Duke_of_Enghien" title="Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien">Duc d'Enghien Execution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coronation_of_Napoleon" title="Coronation of Napoleon">Coronation of Napoleon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1805</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Diamond_Rock" title="Battle of Diamond Rock">Diamond Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Finisterre_(1805)" title="Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805)">Cape Finisterre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wertingen" title="Battle of Wertingen">Wertingen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_G%C3%BCnzburg" title="Battle of Günzburg">Günzburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Haslach-Jungingen" title="Battle of Haslach-Jungingen">Haslach-Jungingen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Elchingen" title="Battle of Elchingen">Elchingen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ulm" title="Battle of Ulm">Ulm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Verona_(1805)" title="Battle of Verona (1805)">Verona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar" title="Battle of Trafalgar">Trafalgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Caldiero_(1805)" title="Battle of Caldiero (1805)">Caldiero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Ortegal" title="Battle of Cape Ortegal">Cape Ortegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Amstetten" title="Battle of Amstetten">Amstetten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_D%C3%BCrenstein" title="Battle of Dürenstein">Dürenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sch%C3%B6ngrabern" title="Battle of Schöngrabern">Schöngrabern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz" title="Battle of Austerlitz">Austerlitz</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1806</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Gaeta_(1806)" title="Siege of Gaeta (1806)">Gaeta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Campo_Tenese" title="Battle of Campo Tenese">Campo Tenese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Maida" title="Battle of Maida">Maida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Schleiz" title="Battle of Schleiz">Schleiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Saalfeld" title="Battle of Saalfeld">Saalfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jena%E2%80%93Auerstedt" title="Battle of Jena–Auerstedt">Jena–Auerstedt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capitulation_of_Erfurt" title="Capitulation of Erfurt">Erfurt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Halle" title="Battle of Halle">Halle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Magdeburg_(1806)" title="Siege of Magdeburg (1806)">Magdeburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Prenzlau" title="Battle of Prenzlau">Prenzlau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capitulation_of_Pasewalk" title="Capitulation of Pasewalk">Pasewalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capitulation_of_Stettin" title="Capitulation of Stettin">Stettin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waren-Nossentin" title="Battle of Waren-Nossentin">Waren-Nossentin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_L%C3%BCbeck" title="Battle of Lübeck">Lübeck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_uprising_(1806)" title="Greater Poland uprising (1806)">Greater Poland uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Hamelin" title="Siege of Hamelin">Hamelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Czarnowo" title="Battle of Czarnowo">Czarnowo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Golymin" title="Battle of Golymin">Golymin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pu%C5%82tusk_(1806)" title="Battle of Pułtusk (1806)">Pułtusk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1807</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mohrungen" title="Battle of Mohrungen">Mohrungen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Eylau" title="Battle of Eylau">Eylau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ostro%C5%82%C4%99ka_(1807)" title="Battle of Ostrołęka (1807)">Ostrołęka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kolberg_(1807)" title="Siege of Kolberg (1807)">Kolberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Danzig_(1807)" title="Siege of Danzig (1807)">Danzig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Sortie_of_Stralsund" title="Great Sortie of Stralsund">Stralsund I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mileto" title="Battle of Mileto">Mileto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Guttstadt-Deppen" title="Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen">Guttstadt-Deppen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Heilsberg" title="Battle of Heilsberg">Heilsberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Friedland" title="Battle of Friedland">Friedland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Stralsund_(1807)" title="Siege of Stralsund (1807)">Stralsund II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1807)" title="Battle of Copenhagen (1807)">Copenhagen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Portugal_(1807)" title="Invasion of Portugal (1807)">Invasion of Portugal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1808</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dos_de_Mayo_Uprising" title="Dos de Mayo Uprising">Dos de Mayo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_El_Bruch" title="Battles of El Bruch">Bruch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_the_Rosily_Squadron" title="Capture of the Rosily Squadron">Rosily Squadron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cabez%C3%B3n" title="Battle of Cabezón">Cabezón</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Zaragoza_(1808)" title="Siege of Zaragoza (1808)">1st Zaragoza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valencia_(1808)" title="Battle of Valencia (1808)">Valencia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Medina_de_Rioseco" title="Battle of Medina de Rioseco">Medina de Rioseco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bail%C3%A9n" title="Battle of Bailén">Bailén</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Roli%C3%A7a" title="Battle of Roliça">Roliça</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vimeiro" title="Battle of Vimeiro">Vimeiro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zornoza" title="Battle of Zornoza">Zornoza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valmaseda" title="Battle of Valmaseda">Valmaseda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Burgos" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Burgos">Burgos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Espinosa_de_los_Monteros" title="Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros">Espinosa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tudela" title="Battle of Tudela">Tudela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Somosierra" title="Battle of Somosierra">Somosierra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Zaragoza_(1809)" title="Siege of Zaragoza (1809)">2nd Zaragoza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sahag%C3%BAn" title="Battle of Sahagún">Sahagún</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Benavente" title="Battle of Benavente">Benavente</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1809</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Castell%C3%B3n" title="Battle of Castellón">Castellón</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ucl%C3%A9s_(1809)" title="Battle of Uclés (1809)">Uclés</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Corunna" title="Battle of Corunna">Corunna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valls" title="Battle of Valls">Valls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyrolean_Rebellion" title="Tyrolean Rebellion">Tyrolean Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Villafranca_(1809)" title="Battle of Villafranca (1809)">Villafranca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Y%C3%A9benes" title="Battle of Los Yébenes">Yevenes/Yébenes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ciudad_Real" title="Battle of Ciudad Real">Ciudad Real</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Porto" title="First Battle of Porto">1st Porto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Medell%C3%ADn" title="Battle of Medellín">Medellín</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Bergisel" title="Battles of Bergisel">Bergisel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sacile" title="Battle of Sacile">Sacile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Teugen-Hausen" title="Battle of Teugen-Hausen">Teugen-Hausen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Raszyn_(1809)" title="Battle of Raszyn (1809)">Raszyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Abensberg" title="Battle of Abensberg">Abensberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Landshut_(1809)" title="Battle of Landshut (1809)">Landshut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Eckm%C3%BChl" title="Battle of Eckmühl">Eckmühl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ratisbon" title="Battle of Ratisbon">Ratisbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Neumarkt-Sankt_Veit" title="Battle of Neumarkt-Sankt Veit">Neumarkt-Sankt Veit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalmatian_Campaign_(1809)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dalmatian Campaign (1809)">Dalmatian Campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ebelsberg" title="Battle of Ebelsberg">Ebelsberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_siege_of_Girona" title="Third siege of Girona">Girona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Piave_River_(1809)" title="Battle of Piave River (1809)">Piave River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Grij%C3%B3" title="Battle of Grijó">Grijó</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Porto" title="Second Battle of Porto">2nd Porto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_W%C3%B6rgl" title="Battle of Wörgl">Wörgl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarvis_(1809)" title="Battle of Tarvis (1809)">Tarvis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aspern-Essling" title="Battle of Aspern-Essling">Aspern-Essling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Alca%C3%B1iz" title="Battle of Alcañiz">Alcañiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sankt_Michael" title="Battle of Sankt Michael">Sankt Michael</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stralsund_(1809)" title="Battle of Stralsund (1809)">Stralsund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Raab_(1809)" title="Battle of Raab (1809)">Raab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mar%C3%ADa" title="Battle of María">María</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Graz" title="Battle of Graz">Graz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wagram" title="Battle of Wagram">Wagram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combat_of_Korneuburg" title="Combat of Korneuburg">Korneuburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combat_of_Stockerau" title="Combat of Stockerau">Stockerau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gefrees" title="Battle of Gefrees">Gefrees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hollabrunn_(1809)" title="Battle of Hollabrunn (1809)">Hollabrunn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combat_of_Sch%C3%B6ngrabern" title="Combat of Schöngrabern">Schöngrabern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armistice_of_Znaim" class="mw-redirect" title="Armistice of Znaim">Armistice of Znaim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Talavera" title="Battle of Talavera">Talavera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walcheren_Campaign" title="Walcheren Campaign">Walcheren Campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_%C3%96lper_(1809)" title="Battle of Ölper (1809)">Ölper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Almonacid" title="Battle of Almonacid">Almonacid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tamames" title="Battle of Tamames">Tamames</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Oca%C3%B1a" title="Battle of Ocaña">Ocaña</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Alba_de_Tormes" title="Battle of Alba de Tormes">Alba de Tormes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1810</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_C%C3%A1diz" title="Siege of Cádiz">Cádiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Astorga" title="Siege of Astorga">Astorga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Ciudad_Rodrigo_(1810)" title="Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)">Ciudad Rodrigo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combat_of_Barquilla_(1810)" title="Combat of Barquilla (1810)">Barquilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combat_of_the_C%C3%B4a" title="Combat of the Côa">Côa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Almeida_(1810)" title="Siege of Almeida (1810)">Almeida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bussaco" title="Battle of Bussaco">Bussaco</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1811</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gebora" title="Battle of the Gebora">Gebora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Barrosa" title="Battle of Barrosa">Barrosa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pombal" title="Battle of Pombal">Pombal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Redinha" title="Battle of Redinha">Redinha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Casal_Novo" title="Battle of Casal Novo">Casal Novo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Campo_Maior" title="Battle of Campo Maior">Campo Maior</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sabugal" title="Battle of Sabugal">Sabugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_Almeida" title="Blockade of Almeida">Almeida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fuentes_de_O%C3%B1oro" title="Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro">Fuentes de Oñoro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Tarragona_(1811)" title="Siege of Tarragona (1811)">Tarragona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Albuera" title="Battle of Albuera">Albuera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Usagre" title="Battle of Usagre">Usagre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Saguntum" title="Battle of Saguntum">Saguntum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Arroyo_dos_Molinos" title="Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos">Arroyo dos Molinos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Valencia_(1812)" title="Siege of Valencia (1812)">Valencia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1812</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Ciudad_Rodrigo_(1812)" title="Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812)">Ciudad Rodrigo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Badajoz_(1812)" title="Siege of Badajoz (1812)">Badajoz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Villagarcia" title="Battle of Villagarcia">Villagarcia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Almaraz" title="Battle of Almaraz">Almaraz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Maguilla" title="Battle of Maguilla">Maguilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mir_(1812)" title="Battle of Mir (1812)">Mir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ekau" title="Battle of Ekau">Ekau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Salamanca" title="Battle of Salamanca">Salamanca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Garc%C3%ADa_Hern%C3%A1ndez" title="Battle of García Hernández">García Hernández</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Saltanovka" title="Battle of Saltanovka">Saltanovka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ostrovno" title="Battle of Ostrovno">Ostrovno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vitebsk_(1812)" title="Battle of Vitebsk (1812)">Vitebsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kobrin" title="Battle of Kobrin">Kobryn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Klyastitsy" title="Battle of Klyastitsy">Klyastitsy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Majadahonda" title="Battle of Majadahonda">Majadahonda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gorodechno" title="Battle of Gorodechno">Gorodechno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Smolensk_(1812)" title="Battle of Smolensk (1812)">Smolensk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Polotsk" title="First Battle of Polotsk">1st Polotsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valutino" title="Battle of Valutino">Valutino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mesoten" title="Battle of Mesoten">Mesoten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Borodino" title="Battle of Borodino">Borodino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_occupation_of_Moscow" title="French occupation of Moscow">Moscow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Burgos" title="Siege of Burgos">Burgos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarutino" title="Battle of Tarutino">Tarutino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Polotsk" title="Second Battle of Polotsk">2nd Polotsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Venta_del_Pozo" title="Battle of Venta del Pozo">Venta del Pozo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Maloyaroslavets" title="Battle of Maloyaroslavets">Maloyaroslavets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chashniki" title="Battle of Chashniki">Chashniki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vyazma" title="Battle of Vyazma">Vyazma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Smoliani" title="Battle of Smoliani">Smoliani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Krasnoi" title="Battle of Krasnoi">Krasnoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Berezina" title="Battle of Berezina">Berezina</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1813</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Castalla" title="Battle of Castalla">Castalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_L%C3%BCtzen_(1813)" title="Battle of Lützen (1813)">Lützen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bautzen_(1813)" title="Battle of Bautzen (1813)">Bautzen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Tarragona_(1813)" title="Siege of Tarragona (1813)">Tarragona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Luckau" title="Battle of Luckau">Luckau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vitoria" title="Battle of Vitoria">Vitoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_San_Sebasti%C3%A1n" title="Siege of San Sebastián">San Sebastián</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Pyrenees" title="Battle of the Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sorauren" title="Battle of Sorauren">Sorauren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gro%C3%9Fbeeren" title="Battle of Großbeeren">Großbeeren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Katzbach" title="Battle of the Katzbach">Katzbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dresden" title="Battle of Dresden">Dresden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kulm" title="Battle of Kulm">1st Kulm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_San_Marcial" title="Battle of San Marcial">San Marcial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dennewitz" title="Battle of Dennewitz">Dennewitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Kulm" title="Second Battle of Kulm">2nd Kulm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_G%C3%B6hrde" title="Battle of the Göhrde">Göhrde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combat_of_Ro%C3%9Flau" class="mw-redirect" title="Combat of Roßlau">Roßlau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wartenburg" title="Battle of Wartenburg">Wartenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bidassoa" title="Battle of the Bidassoa">Bidassoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig" title="Battle of Leipzig">Leipzig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hanau" title="Battle of Hanau">Hanau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nivelle" title="Battle of Nivelle">Nivelle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bornh%C3%B6ved_(1813)" title="Battle of Bornhöved (1813)">Bornhöved</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sehested" title="Battle of Sehested">Sehested</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1814</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brienne" title="Battle of Brienne">Brienne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Rothi%C3%A8re" title="Battle of La Rothière">La Rothière</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Mincio_River_(1814)" title="Battle of the Mincio River (1814)">Mincio River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Champaubert" title="Battle of Champaubert">Champaubert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Montmirail" title="Battle of Montmirail">Montmirail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ch%C3%A2teau-Thierry_(1814)" title="Battle of Château-Thierry (1814)">Château-Thierry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vauchamps" title="Battle of Vauchamps">Vauchamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Garris" title="Battle of Garris">Garris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mormant" title="Battle of Mormant">Mormant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Montereau" title="Battle of Montereau">Montereau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Orthez" title="Battle of Orthez">Orthez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bar-sur-Aube" title="Battle of Bar-sur-Aube">Bar-sur-Aube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Laon" title="Battle of Laon">Laon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Reims_(1814)" title="Battle of Reims (1814)">Reims</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Craonne" title="Battle of Craonne">Craonne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Arcis-sur-Aube" title="Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube">Arcis-sur-Aube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_F%C3%A8re-Champenoise" title="Battle of Fère-Champenoise">Fère-Champenoise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Saint-Dizier" title="Battle of Saint-Dizier">Saint-Dizier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paris_(1814)" title="Battle of Paris (1814)">Montmartre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paris_(1814)" title="Battle of Paris (1814)">Paris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Toulouse_(1814)" title="Battle of Toulouse (1814)">Toulouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bayonne" title="Battle of Bayonne">Bayonne</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1815</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Panaro" title="Battle of the Panaro">Panaro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Occhiobello" title="Battle of Occhiobello">Occhiobello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Carpi_(1815)" title="Battle of Carpi (1815)">Carpi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Casaglia" title="Battle of Casaglia">Casaglia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ronco" title="Battle of Ronco">Ronco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cesenatico" title="Battle of Cesenatico">Cesenatico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pesaro" title="Battle of Pesaro">Pesaro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Scapezzano" title="Battle of Scapezzano">Scapezzano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tolentino" title="Battle of Tolentino">Tolentino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Ancona" title="Siege of Ancona">Ancona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Castel_di_Sangro" title="Battle of Castel di Sangro">Castel di Sangro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_San_Germano" title="Battle of San Germano">San Germano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Gaeta_(1815)" title="Siege of Gaeta (1815)">Gaeta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Quatre_Bras" title="Battle of Quatre Bras">Quatre Bras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ligny" title="Battle of Ligny">Ligny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Waterloo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wavre" title="Battle of Wavre">Wavre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rocheserviere" title="Battle of Rocheserviere">Rocheserviere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Suffel" title="Battle of La Suffel">La Suffel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rocquencourt" title="Battle of Rocquencourt">Rocquencourt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Issy" title="Battle of Issy">Issy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Info</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">French and ally<br />military and<br />political leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis-Alexandre_Berthier" title="Louis-Alexandre Berthier">Louis-Alexandre Berthier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joachim_Murat" title="Joachim Murat">Joachim Murat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis-Nicolas_Davout" title="Louis-Nicolas Davout">Louis-Nicolas Davout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Lannes" title="Jean Lannes">Jean Lannes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auguste_de_Marmont" title="Auguste de Marmont">Auguste de Marmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Mass%C3%A9na" title="André Masséna">André Masséna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michel_Ney" title="Michel Ney">Michel Ney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-de-Dieu_Soult" title="Jean-de-Dieu Soult">Jean-de-Dieu Soult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Victor-Perrin,_Duc_de_Belluno" class="mw-redirect" title="Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno">Marshal Victor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Bessi%C3%A8res" title="Jean-Baptiste Bessières">Jean-Baptiste Bessières</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Charles_Villeneuve" title="Pierre-Charles Villeneuve">Pierre-Charles Villeneuve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bonaparte" title="Joseph Bonaparte">Joseph I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Bonaparte" title="Louis Bonaparte">Louis Bonaparte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Bonaparte" title="Jérôme Bonaparte">Jérôme Bonaparte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Poniatowski" title="Józef Poniatowski">Prince Poniatowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_de_Beauharnais" title="Eugène de Beauharnais">Prince Eugène</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximilian_I_Joseph_of_Bavaria" title="Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria">Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_I_of_Saxony" title="Frederick Augustus I of Saxony">Frederick Augustus I of Saxony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_I_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Frederick I of Württemberg">Frederick I of Württemberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_VI_of_Denmark" title="Frederick VI of Denmark">Frederick VI of Denmark</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Coalition<br />military and<br />political leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Duke of Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowland_Hill,_1st_Viscount_Hill" title="Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill">Rowland Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Moore_(British_Army_officer)" title="John Moore (British Army officer)">John Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson" title="Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cochrane,_10th_Earl_of_Dundonald" title="Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald">Thomas Cochrane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor">Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Lape%C3%B1a" title="Manuel Lapeña">Manuel Lapeña</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archduke_Charles,_Duke_of_Teschen" title="Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen">Archduke Charles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Philipp,_Prince_of_Schwarzenberg" title="Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg">Prince von Schwarzenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archduke_John_of_Austria" title="Archduke John of Austria">Archduke John of Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia" title="Alexander I of Russia">Alexander I of Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Kutuzov" title="Mikhail Kutuzov">Mikhail Kutuzov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Andreas_Barclay_de_Tolly" title="Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly">Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levin_August_von_Bennigsen" title="Levin August von Bennigsen">Count Bennigsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Bagration" title="Pyotr Bagration">Pyotr Bagration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Wittgenstein" title="Peter Wittgenstein">Peter Wittgenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_William_III_of_Prussia" title="Frederick William III of Prussia">Frederick William III of Prussia</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Gebhard von Blücher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_William_Ferdinand,_Duke_of_Brunswick" title="Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick">Duke of Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Louis,_Prince_of_Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen">Prince of Hohenlohe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferdinand VII of Spain">Ferdinand VII of Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_Ricardo_de_%C3%81lava" title="Miguel Ricardo de Álava">Miguel de Álava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_I_of_Portugal" title="Maria I of Portugal">Maria I of Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_VI_of_Portugal" title="John VI of Portugal">Prince Regent John of Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_Pereira_Forjaz,_Count_of_Feira" class="mw-redirect" title="Miguel Pereira Forjaz, Count of Feira">Count of Feira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_I_of_the_Netherlands" title="William I of the Netherlands">William, Prince of Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_the_Two_Sicilies" title="Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies">Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gustav_IV_Adolf" title="Gustav IV Adolf">Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_XIV_John" title="Charles XIV John">Prince Charles John of Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_XVIII" title="Louis XVIII">Louis XVIII</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Related<br />conflicts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Russian_War_(1807%E2%80%931812)" title="Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)">Anglo-Russian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1796%E2%80%931808)" title="Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)">Anglo-Spanish War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Swedish_War_(1810%E2%80%931812)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Swedish War (1810–1812)">Anglo-Swedish War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Turkish_War_(1807%E2%80%931809)" title="Anglo-Turkish War (1807–1809)">Anglo-Turkish War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Wars_(Scandinavia)" title="English Wars (Scandinavia)">Anglo-Danish War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gunboat_War" title="Gunboat War">Gunboat War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Treaties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Campo_Formio" title="Treaty of Campo Formio">Campo Formio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Lun%C3%A9ville" title="Treaty of Lunéville">Lunéville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Amiens" title="Treaty of Amiens">Amiens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convention_of_Artlenburg" title="Convention of Artlenburg">Artlenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_of_Pressburg_(1805)" title="Peace of Pressburg (1805)">Pressburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Finckenstein" title="Treaty of Finckenstein">Finckenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaties_of_Tilsit" title="Treaties of Tilsit">Tilsit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convention_of_Cintra" title="Convention of Cintra">Cintra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Sch%C3%B6nbrunn" title="Treaty of Schönbrunn">Schönbrunn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1810)" title="Treaty of Paris (1810)">Paris (1810)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(24_February_1812)" title="Treaty of Paris (24 February 1812)">Paris (February 1812)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(14_March_1812)" title="Treaty of Paris (14 March 1812)">Paris (March 1812)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1814)" title="Treaty of Paris (1814)">Paris (1814)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convention_of_Tauroggen" title="Convention of Tauroggen">Tauroggen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Ried" title="Treaty of Ried">Ried</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Chaumont" title="Treaty of Chaumont">Chaumont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Kiel" title="Treaty of Kiel">Kiel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convention_of_Mantua" title="Convention of Mantua">Mantua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Casalanza" title="Treaty of Casalanza">Casalanza</a></li> <li><a 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