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THIELMANN, JOHANN ADOLF, FREIHERR VON (1765-1824)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 847 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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THIELMANN, JOHANN ADOLF, FREIHERR VON (1765-1824) , Prussian cavalry soldier, was born at Dresden. Entering the Saxon cavalry in 1782, he saw service against the French in the Revolutionary Wars and in the Jena campaign. When, after the disaster of Jena, Saxony allied herself with her conqueror, Thielmann accompanied the Saxon contingent which fought at the siege of Danzig and at

Friedland

FRIEDLAND

. In 18og, as colonel of a Free-Corps, he opposed the advance of the Austrians into Saxony, and was rewarded for his services with the grade of major-general, further promotion to

lieutenant

LIEUTENANT

-general following in 181o. As

commander

COMMANDER

of the Saxon Heavy Cavalry Brigade he took

part

PART

in the advance on Moscow two years later, and his conduct at Borodino attracted the attention of

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

, who took Thielmann into his own suite. His own sovereign at the same time made him Freiherr. In the war of Liberation Thielmann took a prominent

part

PART

; as

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of Torgau, by his king's orders he at first observed the strictest neutrality, but on receipt of an order to hand over the fortress to the French he resigned his command and, accompanied by his staff officer Aster, joined the

allies

ALLIES, THOMAS WILLIAM (1813-1903)

. As a Russian general he was employed in reorganizing the Saxon army after

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, and in 1814 he commanded the Saxon corps operating in the Low Countries. Early in the following year he became a

lieutenant

LIEUTENANT

-general in the Prussian service, and in command of the 3rd army corps he took part in the Waterloo campaign. From the field of Ligny he retired with the rest of

Blucher

BLUCHER, GEBHARD LEBERECHT VON (1742—1819)

's army on Wavre, and when the other corps marched towards Waterloo, Thielmann covered this

movement

MOVEMENT

against Grouchy, fighting the spirited action of Wavre (June 1810. He was later a corps

commander

COMMANDER

at Munster and at Coblenz, and at the latter place he died in 1824.
See von Hutel, Biographische Skizze des Generals von Tnielmannn (Berlin, 1828); von Holzendorff, Beitrage zur Biographie des Generals Freiherrn von Thielmann (Dresden, 1830) ; von Peters-doff, General Johann Adolf Freiherr von Thielmann (

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 1894).

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