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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :Schöning, Kurd Wolfgang von (1840), Die Generale der chur-brandenburgischen und königlich preussischen Armee von 1640-1840: eine historische Uebersicht, sammt vielen eingewebten urkundlichen Notizen : als Jubelschrift dem vaterländischen Kriegesheere geweiht (in German), C.G. Lüderitz, p. 265
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