Peter Joseph du Plat (officer)

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Peter Joseph du Plat (born February 26, 1761 in Jork ; † March 19, 1824 in Celle ) was a royal Hanoverian lieutenant general .

Life

He came from the French noble family du Plat , whose first representative in Germany was Pierre Joseph du Plat (1657–1709), the progenitor of the Hanoverian line. Descendants of this German line later entered royal Danish and British services. Plat was the eldest son of the Hanoverian dichgrave Peter Joseph du Plat (1728–1782) and Anna Dorothea Feind (t) (1738–1811) from Jork. His siblings were Ernst Friedrich (1767–1794), Johann Heinrich (1769–1852), royal Danish major general and cartographer , and the royal Danish major general Christian Claude (1770–1841) as well as Anna Dorothea Helena (1773–1845) and Bernhardine Antoinette du Plat (1774– ??).

Plat was part of the Hanoverian regiments involved in the Mysore Wars in the service of the British East India Company .

Plat served as kurhannoverscher officer in the Royal German Legion under the command of the English prince Adolph Friedrich , during the whole time of the Napoleonic occupation has fought against the French at that German states. From September 18, 1804 to September 24, 1806 he was colonel and commander of the 8th Line Battalion "Waterloo". On July 25, 1810, he was promoted to major general.

Plat died in Celle in 1824 as a retired lieutenant general.

In 1800 he married Charlotte Eleonore Elisabeth von Bothmer (born June 23, 1774 at Gut Bothmer ; † May 2, 1842 in Celle), who was widowed from his first marriage to Viktor Friedrich Adolf von der Wense († 1798). The couple had a daughter.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fr. Tobiesen: Om Slægten du Plat. in: Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift. Volume 63, Samfundet for Dansk genealogi og personalhistorie, 1942, p. 204 f.
  2. ↑ Chen Tzoref Ashkenazi: German soldiers in eighteenth century India . In: MIDA Archival Reflexicon . 2019, p. 2–5 ( projekt-mida.de ).
  3. ↑ a b North Ludlow Beamish: History of the Royal German Legion . Second part. Hahn'sche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1837, p. 112 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  4. ^ A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines . Great Britain War Office, 1821, p. 10 ( digitized in the Google book search). - Second Lieutenant Carl du Plat , Captain August du Plat and Lieutenant Colonel Georg Carl August du Plat (from 1807 to 1814 commander of the 4th Line Battalion) served in this legion between 1803 and 1816 - Source: Bernhard Schwertfeger: Geschichte der Royal German Legion 1803-1816 . Volume 2. Hahn'sche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1907, p. 146 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ This fact is noteworthy, since his grandfather was French and he himself belongs to a French noble family.
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 16390, HMSO, London, July 24, 1810, p. 1093 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME you Plat, Peter Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Hanoverian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Jork
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1824
Place of death Celle