Mihály Lajos Jeney

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Austro-Hungarian army officer

ScientistsLived 1723 to 1797 · aged 74

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de Jeney: Le Partisan ou l`art de faire la petite-guerre avec succés selon le génie de nos jours - title page from first French edition published at The Hague in 1759

Scientists born in the 1720s 6

Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae39.5 Anne Monson38.7

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About this person

Mihály Lajos Jeney - Hungarian military officer and general of Imperial Army, [[cartographer]z]. He was born in noble Protestant family. He started in military service as ahussar probably during 1737-1739 war against the Turkey, on 1739-1754 served in Bercsényi hussar regiment. Between 1754 and 1758 served in French army near Rhine as a cartographer. During Seven Years' War 1758-1763 served in Prussian Army as captain of military engineers. On 1787 nominated as major-general of Imperial Army as Alt-Gradisko fortress commander. Author of popular manual of tactics: The Partisan, or the Art of Making War in Detachment... published in 1759 and English edition: London 1760, translated into many languages. After Seven Years' War he provide military survey of Hungarian-Austrian Kingdom and result were 3324 sheets of topographic maps 1:28 000 and 1:96 000.