Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth"

part in the Russian campaign of 1812, and fought in the following year

at Dresden, Kulm and Leipzig. He then entered the Dutch service, took

part in the campaigns of 1815, and, after studying another year at

Heidelberg, was member for Luxemburg of the military commission of the German federal diet (1824, 1825). In 1830 and 1831 he took part in the Dutch campaign in ...