COMMANDER // 1770–1818
Ferdinand von Wintzingerode
General of the CavalryRussian Empire2 battles1 war
Lifespan
1770 – 1818
Active service 1814 — 2 battles across 1 war; first command at age 44.
Profile
Ferdinand Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Wintzingerode was a German nobleman and officer in several different armies of the Napoleonic Wars, finally ending up as a general in the Imperial Russian Army and fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition against the French invasion of Russia and the subsequent campaigns in Germany and France. He appears in Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Battles (2)
1814
1814