Charles-Emmanuel de Warnery

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Charles-Emmanuel de Warnery (born March 1720 in Morges , Canton of Vaud , Switzerland , † May 8, 1786 in Breslau ) was a hussar general and military theorist. Among other things, he served in the Seven Years' War for Frederick the Great .

Life

Warnery was born in Morges in the Swiss canton of Vaud in March 1720. At the age of fourteen he entered the service of the King of Sardinia . With the beginning of the Seven Years' War he switched to the service of Prussia, where he was raised to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was also raised to the nobility and received the Pour le Mérite for his services in the Battle of Lobositz in 1756.

When the Schweidnitz Fortress surrendered in autumn 1757, he was taken prisoner by Austria. After his return from this he was brought before a court martial on his own application and was acquitted. When he demanded this procedure for the other generals who were involved in the surrender of the fortress, he suffered the indignation of the king and had to quit his service for Prussia.

He then withdrew into private life for the time being. The Polish King Stanislaus Poniatowski appointed him general and adjutant general. He lived on his estate in Langenhof near Oels Schlesien, which his wife Louise Henriette von Koschenbahr from the Obermick family (* February 19, 1725: † March 20, 1799) had brought into the marriage. In 1786 he died in Breslau.

family

He married Louise Henriette von Koschenbahr (* February 19, 1725: † March 20, 1799). The couple had several children:

  • Wilhelm Johann August (1748–1749)
  • Johanna Louise "Charlotte" (1749–1749)
  • Johanna Louise Amalia (1750–1751)
  • Carl Emanuel (1751–1751)
  • Louise (1752–1811) ∞ NN von Perthenau
  • Wilhemine (* 1754) ∞ NN von Ostrowsky
  • Ernst Carl August (* 1757)
  • Wilhelm Adolph "Gottfried" Heinrich (1761–1767)
  • Christian Heinrich (1763–1818) ∞ Charlotte Friederike Auguste von der Groeben (1787–1871), daughter of Karl Ernst August von der Groeben

Act as a writer

During his time, he received a great deal of attention with his military treatises, which he wrote in his mother tongue, French . However, it was partly translated into German but also into English against his express will . In his works he dealt with both contemporary warfare and that of antiquity. He also wrote several treatises on the campaigns of Frederick the Great, while contemporaries accused him of not allowing his relationship with the king to flow into his works with sufficient neutrality.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann David Erdmann Preuss : Friedrich the Great: A Life Story , Volume 2, Page 363 Berlin, 1833
personal data
SURNAME Warnery, Charles-Emmanuel de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general and military theorist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Morges
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1786
Place of death Wroclaw