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3 unusual facts about Gustav Eduard von Hindersin


Gustav Eduard von Hindersin

The latter had made scarcely any progress since the days of Frederick the Great, and before Hindersin's appointment had practised with the same guns in the same bastion year after year.

From 1830 to 1837 he attended the Allgemeine Kriegsakademie at Berlin, and in 1841, while still a subaltern, he was posted to the great General Staff, in which he afterwards directed the topographical section.

He fell into the hands of the insurgents at the action of Ladenburg, but was released just before the fall of Rastatt.



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