Pour le Mérite (1742) Black Eagle Order (1744) Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great 1851
Hans von Lehwald(t) (24 June 1685 – 16 November 1768), also known as Johann von Lehwald(t), was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall. He joined the military in 1700 and participated in all Prussian field operations from the War of Spanish Succession through the Seven Years' War. He served with particular distinction in Frederick the Great's war with the Austrians in the Silesia and Seven Years' War.
23,600 Russians. Lehwaldt died in Königsberg in 1768 and was buried in the Juditten Church. Bernhard von Poten, Lehwaldt, Hansvon. Allgemeine Deutsche...
field marshals Erhard Ernst von Röder and HansvonLehwaldt by the Königsberg artist E. A. Knopke; both Röder and Lehwaldt were successively married to...
Feldmarschalls Grafen York von Wartenburg [The Life of Field Marshal Count York von Wartenberg]. Phaidon Publishing. ISBN 3-88851-160-7. Ehlert, Hans (2014). The Schlieffen...
armies in three. He placed a force of 20,000 under Field Marshal HansvonLehwaldt in East Prussia to guard against any Russian invasion from the east...
Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf, Frederick the Great ordered his General HansvonLehwaldt to move west to Stettin to confront the Swedes. The Prussian troops...
23 – Antonio Bernacchi, Italian opera singer (d. 1756) June 24 – HansvonLehwaldt, German general (d. 1768) June 30 John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)...
Seven Years' War – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under HansvonLehwaldt is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin. September...
At one point tapped to replace the aging and ailing Field Marshal HansvonLehwaldt, he alienated the King; in 1778, immediately prior to the outbreak...
Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal HansvonLehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War. 1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having...
Polesskoye Urban Settlement. Otto Brakat (1916–1978) Wehrmacht soldier HansvonLehwaldt (1685-1768), Prussian field marshal Wikimedia Commons has media related...
Poten "Linger, Christian von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 18 (1883), pp. 709–10 (in German). Poten, "Lehwaldt, Hansvon", Allgemeine Deutsche...
John Bristow, English merchant, politician (b. 1701) November 16 – HansvonLehwaldt, German general (b. 1685) November 17 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st...
portrait of the king on a blue band. Dossow, Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock, and HansvonLehwaldt were the only recipients of the special award. When the...
Seven Years' War – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under HansvonLehwaldt is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin. September...
John Bristow, English merchant, politician (b. 1701) November 16 – HansvonLehwaldt, German general (b. 1685) November 17 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st...
23 – Antonio Bernacchi, Italian opera singer (d. 1756) June 24 – HansvonLehwaldt, German general (d. 1768) June 30 John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)...
only other recipients of the medallion were Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow and HansvonLehwaldt. Frederick also granted Buddenbrock a district captaincy and...
Frischbierweg were named after the field marshal Georg von Derfflinger, the general HansvonLehwaldt, and the folklorist Hermann Karl Frischbier, respectively...
Demmin, Usedom and Wollin, but were forced back by Prussian general HansvonLehwaldt, who then turned to Swedish Stralsund. Yet, no significant fighting...
three Silesian Wars. In 1751, he commanded the advanced guard of HansvonLehwaldt's Corps against the Russians at the first battle of Groß-Jägersdorf...
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