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Gebhart Leberecht, Prince von Wahlstatt,
Prussian feld-marshal
(Rostock, 1742 - Krioblowitz (Silésie), 1819)
Marshal Bluecher, nicknamed Vorwaertz (Forward!) spent the last part of his long military career fighting against France. After numerous defeats his efforts were rewarded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Bluecher, member of a family with enormous properties in Mecklenburg, entered the Swedish army during the Seven Years' War. Captured by the Prussians in 1760, he became one of their recruits. His military eagerness won him the rank of lieutenant in 1762. Discharged because of misbehavior in 1773, he married the daughter of a colonel of the Polish royal guard.
In the military again fourteen years later (at the age of fifty two) he fought against the French revolutionary armies in 1793-4. On October 14, 1804, he was defeated by Davout at Auerstadt. After another two years he had to surrender to Bernadotte at Ratkau. Imprisoned in Hamburg, he was exchanged for General Victor. In 1809 he advocated the alliance with Austria, and Frederick Wilhelm entrusted the cavalry to him.
Finally, in 1813, he commanded the Silesian forces. In spite of the defeats of Grossgoerhen and Bautzen in May he wanted to march on Paris from the month of August. Then he won some victories. Victor at Leipzig October 16-18, he was promoted to marshal.In January he was in France. He was then suffering from depression and diseased eyes. Although he was accompanying the main army he did not enter Paris, and he resigned on April 2, 1814, at the age of 72, two days before the abdication of his enemy. Soon thereafter he obtained the title of prince.
None-the-less his career was not over. he served again during the Hundred Days. Commanding general of the Prussian army, he was defeated by Napoleon at Ligny on June 16, 1815. The eighteenth of June was the day of revenge. At Waterloo, at the side of Wellington, he led the decisive attack against the French right wing. Named military governor of Paris, he disapproved of the Second Treaty of Paris as too favorable to France. Beginning in 1817 he sat in the State Council in Berlin
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