Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Luray Cavern" to "Mackinac Island"

part in the disastrous battle of Auerstädt. He achieved distinction in

the siege of Colberg, as the leader of a squadron of Schill's volunteers. In 1808, as a major, he retired from the Prussian army, indignant at the humiliating treaty of Tilsit. He took part in the heroic venture of his old chief Schill in 1809; wounded at Dodendorf and left behind, he thereby escaped the fat...