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Born September 25, 1744 • Berlin • Germany
Died November 16, 1797 (aged 53) • Berlin • Germany
Title / Office king (1786-1797), Prussia
Role In French Revolutionary wars • Declaration of Pillnitz

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Frederick William II
First Partition of Poland
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Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prussian noble
Frederick II
Frederick II
king of Prussia
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
prime minister of Prussia
Karl August, Fürst von Hardenberg
Karl August von Hardenberg
Prussian statesman
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian general
Frederick William IV
Frederick William IV
king of Prussia
Frederick William I
Frederick William I
king of Prussia
Frederick I
Frederick I
king of Prussia
Joseph Maria von Radowitz.
Joseph Maria von Radowitz
Prussian diplomat
August, Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau
August, Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau
Prussian field marshal
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt
Prussian field marshal
Hertzberg, detail from a miniature by Gustav Taubert, 1792
Ewald Friedrich, count von Hertzberg
Prussian statesman
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Prussian general
Haugwitz, drawing, before 1776; in the Lavater portrait collection
Christian, count von Haugwitz
Prussian minister and diplomat
Leopold I
prince of Anhalt-Dessau
Edwin, Freiherr von Manteuffel
Prussian general
Frederick III, 1884
Frederick III
king of Prussia and emperor of Germany
Johann Yorck, Graf von Wartenburg
Johann Yorck, count von Wartenburg
Prussian field marshal

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