Show int oa MOLTKE choso whoso now lie draped in battle flags capital of the german empire jed and day by soil diers s powerful government was a poor boy born in a email gov onic bat he vaa a person of un anble that brought him u fron he was born at mook arg a province of nark of poor parents and ed into the danish army for mil training ho took a great int in military tactics as this is to have been an inherent I 1 ty of his nature his father and i ieather were both soldiers before and lra distinguished them ns m the banish army denmam over avy the dead hero too II 11 a in id for operation and in 1822 tho prussian army and 0 a mi ro complete study of mili tactics at the academy at ber ilo was finally promoted to benaut of infantry and went lily until he became a ibor 0 hf generals staff in 1835 took u rip to turkey and od the bood favors of an IM who employed the ig german to help zo the army this ose ON MOLTKE sever sara m turkey and became quite in the turkish language ho year 1839 he took part with turks in a campaign agriest roy au of egypt wbk soon brought 0 o easl rip was of great benefit to the mili kenins and hus since become for many german officers to a for awhile in the in returning to germany MOLTKE became an eral to king HENKY of prussia r choso whoso donth in 1848 ember of the grand general and took part in the aus enli an ar tho plans were MOLTKE during j et WT y y y this war when the war of 1864 against denmark broke ont sketched the plan of the campaign and assisted in its execution acting similarly in the caso of the war of the whole plan of the bohemian campaign was due to the lieu tenant general who was personally present in the battle of Konig gartz which he led and in like manner arranged the bold advance of the prussian columns against and vienna and negotiated the armistic and preliminaries of peace for these services he received the order of the black eagle and a national to father MOLTKE as ho was familiarly termed in the man army and his brilliant strategy are ascribed the splendid victories of the german anna ia the franco ger man war he was the commander in chief the whole plan of the campaign was due to him in recognition of his unrivaled who was already a baron was created a count october made the chief marshall of the german empire september 1871 and again received a national the illustrious marshal who was generally regarded as ane first strategist of the day re calved from the ozara the order of st george the highest military decoration or russia in october 1870 and from his own sovereign the grand cross of the order of the iron cross march 22 1871 |