Blasius Kolumban von Bender

Blaise Colomban Bender or Blaise Colomban, Baron von Bender was an officer for over sixty years in the Imperial Army or Kaiserliche Armee, the force directly recruited by the Holy Roman Emperor without the need for permission from the Imperial Diet., whose archaic mode of recruitment in the many Circles of the Empire led to its losing its importance and the Imperial Army becoming the Empire's most effective field force.) In his long career he fought in twenty-nine campaigns, twelve major battles and six sieges.