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  1. Charles William Ferdinand ( German: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand; 9 October 1735 – 10 November 1806) was the prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a military leader. His titles are usually shortened to Duke of Brunswick in English-language sources. He succeeded his father as sovereign prince of the Principality of ...

  2. The Brunswick Manifesto was a proclamation issued by Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Allied army (principally Austrian and Prussian), on 25 July 1792 to the population of Paris, France during the War of the First Coalition.

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  4. The Duke of Brunswick (1735-1806) was the commander of the powerful Prussian army, famous for his menacing warning to the people of revolutionary France. Born Charles William Ferdinand, he became a career soldier and saw service in the Seven Years War. In 1773 he succeeded his father as Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel but remained in the ...

  5. Issued by Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and commander of the Allied Army of Austria and Prussia, the Brunswick Manifesto of 1792 was a warning to the French...

  6. Portrait of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1735-1806) by Johann Georg Ziesenis After Frances Declaration of War on Austria on 20 th April 1792 and Prussia joining the conflict the two Allies appeared to about to invade France and end the Revolution.

  7. Jun 1, 2011 · Perhaps — and indeed that is most probable — [the French] reckon on the very considerable force which the revolution commands, and which becomes more fully organized every day from a military point of view’. 60 The correspondence of Earl Gower equally affirmed that ‘the approach of the Duke of Brunswick does not excite that alarm which ...

  8. views 1,257,575 updated. Charles William Ferdinand, 1735–1806, duke of Brunswick (1780–1806), Prussian field marshal. He had great success in the Seven Years War (1756–63) and was commander in chief (1792–94) of the Austro-Prussian armies in the French Revolutionary Wars.

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