Thomas Friedrich Zobel von Giebelstadt und Darstadt (1799 – 12 July 1869) was an

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military officer. Zobel was born into a family of the lesser Austrian nobility. He studied in the military academy of

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and distinguished himself in the riots in Lombardy-Venetia of 1848. On 30 April 1849 he was appointed Major General, becoming the governor of the fortress of

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, where there was one of the largest Austrian garrisons in northern

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. On 12 May 1853 he was named a leutnant-feldmarschall in the Austrian army. He defended against the invasion of Lombardy-Venetia by a combined force from the

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and Piedmont, and

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, and fought in the

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(1859, during the Italian Second War of Independence) as the Austrian commander, although the battle was lost. He retired from the military in 1864 and died in 1869.

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