Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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- Fame54.3
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Lived 1735–1806, aged 71
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He ruled a German principality, commanded Prussian armies like his uncle Frederick the Great, and threw gasoline on the French Revolution by threatening Paris with destruction if the royal family was harmed. The manifesto backfired spectacularly.
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Charles William Ferdinand inherited Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in 1780, a small state in the Holy Roman Empire, and ran it as an enlightened despot—his uncle Frederick the Great had shown him the template. Married to the sister of Britain's George III, he also rose to field marshal in Prussia's army, earning a reputation as one of the century's finest military minds. In 1792 he issued the Brunswick Manifesto, warning revolutionary France that any harm to Louis XVI would bring total vengeance from the allied powers; instead it accelerated the king's fall and radicalized the revolution. By 1806, fac…
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