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Friedrich August Peter von Colomb

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Colomb married Wilhelmine Luise Stosch (1784–1822) in 1808 and Maria Henriette Stosch (1791–1857) in 1824. He had 4 sons (later Prussian generals Enno and Otto Gebhard von Colomb) and a daughter with Wilhelmine and two sons with Maria (later Prussian general Karl Ernst Georg von Colomb).
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as a son of the highranking Prussian public official (Geheimer Ober-Finanzrat und Kammerpräsidenten von Aurich) Pierre Colomb (1719–1797; after 1786 Peter von Colomb). His brother Ludwig Christoph von Colomb (1768–1831) was the Royal Prussian President of
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in 1811 and fought against French troops in 1813/14. On 20 May 1813 he commanded a unit of 90 volunteers, who managed to conquer 20 French cannons and take 400 prisoners near
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and was promoted to a Colonel in 1818. On 20 October 1823 he joined the Prussian War Département and became the commander of the 12th Cavalry-Brigade in
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and was retired on 7 July 1849 with the promotion to a General der Kavallerie. The "Bastion Colomb", a part of the Fortification of
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was named after him. He died on 12 November 1854 in Königsberg, where he had lived after his retirement.
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sometimes also 19 July, e.g. Bernhard von Poten: Handwörterbuch der gesamten Militärwissenschaften. 1877
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Religion and the Rise of Nationalism - A Profile of an East European City
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In 1815 he became a Lieutenant Colonel and the commanding officer of the
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in 1792 and became a second lieutenant of the King's own Hussarregiment
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Index

Aurich
Prussia
Königsberg
Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia
Prussia
Cavalry
General der Kavallerie
Napoleonic Wars
Prussian
Aurich
Eastern Frisia
Breslau
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Zieten Hussars
Berlin
Napoleonic Wars
Thuringia
Lübeck
Rittmeister
Zwickau
8th Hussar Regiment
Neiße
Cologne
V Army Corps
Posen

Fortification of Posen
Prussian forces

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