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Gideon Ernst von Laudon, from 1759 Baron von Laudon, (also Laudohn or Loudon) (* 2. FebruaryJuly. / 13. February 1717greg. on Gut Tootzen (Toce) near Laudohn, Livonia; † 14. July 1790 in Neutitschein, Moravia) was an Austrian general of Baltic German origin. Laudon's family has been living here since the 15th. century in Livonia. Laudon himself claimed to be related to the Scottish noble family of the Earls of Loudoun, but this relationship is fictitious. In 1732, at the age of 15, he entered Russian service and took part in the siege of Danzig in 1734 during the War of the Polish Succession. In 1735 he moved with the Russian auxiliary troops to the Rhine and then back to the Dnieper, where he fought in the Russo-Austrian Turkish War from 1736 to 1739. After the Peace of Belgrade, he went to Saint Petersburg to complain about several incidents. When his complaints were not addressed, he resigned from the Russian army. After Frederick II. When Prussia rejected his request to join the Prussian army, he entered Austrian service in 1742. As a captain in von der Trenck's Croatian Free Corps, he was seriously wounded in 1744. Laudon was charged with disobedience and violations by the Croatian Free Corps. He justified himself by the orders he received and then received a post as a major in the Licca Border Regiment (Lika region). When the Seven Years' War broke out, he repeatedly tried to be deployed, but was rejected by the President of the Court War Council, Count von Neipperg. Only on Kaunitz's recommendation was Laudon sent to Bohemia as a lieutenant colonel with a detachment of the Croatian Free Corps to serve under Field Marshal Browne. After a successful operation during the retreat from Saxony near Tetschen, he was promoted to colonel for his participation in the raid on Hirschfeld in February 1757. In 1758 he set up his own light troop, the Loudon Volunteer Battalion, later called the “Green Loudon Grenadiers”. After the Battle of Kolin, Laudon inflicted heavy losses on Prussian General Keith as he retreated. After several months of command on the Elbe, in August he was given command of the light Austrian troops in the Imperial Army, which he led into the Battle of Roßbach. Promoted to major general, he captured on the 30th June 1758 a large Prussian wagon train near Domstadtl, for which he was appointed Lieutenant Field Marshal in the Imperial Army was promoted. For his actions in the Battle of Hochkirch he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa and given the title of Baron. In the spring of 1759 he commanded a corps of 18,000 men on the Silesian border, which he led on the 3rd. August united with the Russian troops under Pyotr Semyonovich Saltykov. On 12. In August 1759, as commander-in-chief, he defeated Frederick the Great and his Prussian troops in the Battle of Kunersdorf. Laudon then moved with the Austrian troops to Austrian Silesia and Moravia. In 1760, after his promotion to Feldzeugmeister by Maria Theresa, Laudon was given command of the former Alt-Wolfenbüttel infantry regiment[3] and a corps of 36,000 men that was supposed to advance into Silesia. Here he batted on the 23rd. In June, General Fouqué was at Landeshut, stormed Glatz, but besieged Breslau in vain. On the 15th In August Laudon lost the Battle of Liegnitz, for which he blamed Leopold Joseph Graf Daun and especially Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, whom he viewed as his personal opponent. After the war conferences in Vienna had ended, Laudon went to Silesia in March 1761, where he commanded an army of 60,000 men, independent of Daun's main army, which marched on the 12th. united with the Russians in August. The combined troops were kept in check by a fortified Prussian camp near Bunzelwitz, but Laudon succeeded on January 1. October to take control of the city of Schweidnitz through a surprise attack. In 1762 Laudon received no further command. In 1766 he was appointed to the Court War Council, in 1769 he was entrusted with general command in Moravia and in 1778 he was appointed field marshal. When the War of the Bavarian Succession broke out, he faced Prince Henry of Prussia in Bohemia in March 1778. In 1776 he acquired Laudon Castle in Hadersdorf near Vienna, which he lived in until his death. As commander in Croatia he struck in the 8th century. Austrian-Turkish War in August 1788 the Turks near Dubitza and stormed Novi. In the campaign of 1789 he conquered Turkish Gradisca at the head of the Croatian-Slovenian army. During Field Marshal Andreas Hadik von Futak's absence due to illness, he was given supreme command of the main army and took part on the 8th. October Belgrade and Semendria and, appointed generalissimo, successfully ended the campaign. In 1790 he received supreme command over the counter Prussian army assembled and died on the 14th. July in Neutitschein. In 1862 in Vienna-Josefstadt (8. district) the Laudongasse and in 1959 in Penzing (14. district) named Loudonstrasse after him. He married and converted to Catholicism.
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