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Charles-Gustave de Falkenhayn

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Charles-Gustave de Falkenhayn (14 July 1724 - 1793 or later) was a French general of German ancestry.

He became a colonel in the Regiment Royal-Pologne in 1754 and commanded the Regiment de Baviere from 1762. He was promoted to brigadier in 1762 and marechal de camp in 1770. He was second-in-command of the Franco-Spanish Invasion of Minorca in 1781 and also came into contact with Benjamin Franklin in 1783.

References

  1. Andreas Georg Waehner, Sigrid Dahmen, Tagebuch aus dem Siebenjährigen Krieg, 2012, page 9, footnote 47
  2. Ellen Cohn (ed.), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: January 21 through May 15, 1783, pages 339-340
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