You are bidding on onemilitary testimony from 1814 from the wars of liberation.

Of the Captain Erthl, company commander 15. National Field Battalion Bayreuth, wrote a praising Certificate for Lieutenant Cloeter, who had served in that regiment during the five weeks that Erthl was company commander.

It refers toGeorg Gottfried Cloeter, b. On the 27th. December 1779 in Foerbau as the son of the official administrator, manor owner and owner of the Wendenhammer hammer mill Johann Gottfried Cloeter (1741-1822), who came from a Huguenot family, and Anna Margaretha, née Frank (* 1758 in Foerbau).

Georg Gottfried Cloeterdied on the 14th August 1815 as a lieutenant in the war against France in the hospital at Ivigny near Paris.

His brother, the pastor Flamin Cloeter (1790-1848), a pen friend of the poet Jean Paul, was the father of the pastor Samuel Gottfried Christoph Cloeter (1823-1894), founder of the emigrant settlement of Gnadenburg in the Russian Caucasus.

the fifteenth National Field Battalion Bayreuth went on 26. July 1815 in the Royal Bavarian 13. Infantry Regiment "Franz Joseph I".

The company commander Erthl may be around Michael Erthl, who died on 19. April 1815 as captain in the 11. Line Infantry Regiment in Kempten died. His wife Margaretha Erthl died in March 1814 at the age of 27 years and 4 months in Würzburg.

Dated St. Tue 22 April 1814.

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (German formerly Sankt Diedolt, or Sankt Didel) is a commune in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine) in France.

Transcription (in the original spelling):

"Testimony. The undersigned is committed to his duty, to Lieutenant Cloter dated the 15th Field National Baon. Bayraith, to testify that he (during five waves, when I had the honor of taking command of the company by virtue of higher orders) behaved as one should expect of a worthy and good officer, both in his activity and vigilance Both on and off duty is very much to be commended, after the company was also posted in Xertigny between Blombieres and Epinal, and mainly had to patrol the road to Langres, where several hundred armed peasants were staying, said the mentioned lieutenant, who was fluent in the French language Beneficial services by day and night, in which the same has scouted out so many things through effort and diligence, which was very necessary for the advantage and security of the company, which Erthl, Capitaine and Compagnie Commandant testifies dutifully."

Note:The places Xertigny, Plombières-les-Bains and Épinal are mentioned.

Scope:one written on four pages (31.3 x 20.3 cm).

On strong paper; with a paper seal.

Condition:paper stained and somewhat creased; with slight edge damage. BiPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Cloeter individually Napoleon militaria