Johann Baptist Lampi Ludwig Freiherr von Terzi

Ludwig, Baron von Terzy (1730–1800) was an Austrian general. He served in the

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, with particular distinction in one of its few actions of the war. In January 1779, his commander,

Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser Dagobert Sigmund, Count von Wurmser (7 May 1724 – 22 August 1797) was an Austrian field marshal during the French Revolutionary Wars. Although he fought in the Seven Years' War, the War of the Bavarian Succession, and mounted several successf ...

advanced into the County of Glatz in five columns, two of which, commanded by Major General

Franz Joseph, Count Kinsky Franz Joseph, Count Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (6 December 1739 – 9 June 1805) was a Habsburg Austrian general in the War of the Bavarian Succession and the French Revolutionary Wars. A nobleman from the House of Kinsky, he began his militar ...

, surrounded Habelschwerdt on 17–18 January. While one column secured the approach, the other, under the leadership of Colonel Pallavicini,This officer was probably Colonel, later Count, Carlo Pallavicini, of the

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, who had been in Habsburg service since the latter days of the Seven Years War. Erik Lund. ''War for the every day: generals, knowledge and warfare in early modern Europe.'' Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1999, , p. 152. stormed the village and captured the Prince of Hessen-Philippsthal and 700 men, three cannon and seven colors. Wurmser himself led the third column in an assault on the so-called Swedish blockhouse at Oberschwedeldorf. It and the village of Habelschwerdt were set on fire by

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s. Terzy, then a major general commanding the remaining two columns, threw back the enemy support and took 300 Prussian prisoners.Carlyle, p. 219. Criste, ''ADB.'' Wurzbach, p. 5. During the

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under

Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (; 26 December 1737 – 26 February 1815) was a military commander in the army of the Holy Roman Empire. He began his career at the age of 18 in a cavalry regiment with which he took part in the Se ...

, Terzy was employed in the campaign in 1793 as Feldmarschallieutenant . He commanded Coburg's left wing on the Sambre. In January 1797 he was General of Artillery, and in April, the Emperor appointed him commander of the Austrian troops front; in June he left a part of his troops, under the command of the

Johann von Klenau Johann Josef Cajetan Graf von Klenau, Freiherr von Janowitz (; 13 April 1758 – 6 October 1819) was a field marshal in the Hapsburg Monarchy, Habsburg army. Klenau, the son of a Bohemian nobility, Bohemian noble, joined the House of Habsbur ...

, engage in the Venetian

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. He died in Vienna on 20 February 1800, in his 70th year.

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