August de la Motte
August de la Motte | |
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Born | November 17, 1713 |
Died | August 29, 1788 | (aged 74)
Allegiance | Electorate of Hanover |
Branch | Hanoverian Army |
Rank | Lieutenant general |
Battles/wars | Seven Years' War
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August de la Motte (17 November 1713 – 29 August 1788) was a
Biography
De la Motte was born on 17 November 1713 in the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. He served in the Hanoverian Army during the Seven Years' War, notably participating in the Second Siege of Cassel.[1] In 1775 the Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover was George III, who also ruled the Kingdom of Great Britain in personal union. King George had to deal with the American Revolution and the outbreaking American Revolutionary War and prepared to ready Hanoverian troops for garrison duty so that British troops would be freed for service in America.[1]
On 16 October de la Motte, by now a colonel, was given command of a Hanoverian brigade and sent to
Returning home from Gibraltar to Hanover in 1784 the exhausted de la Motte retired, dying four years later on 29 August 1788.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "August de la Motte", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1883, p. 573
- ^ von dem Knesebeck, Ernst Julius Georg (1845). Geschichte der churhannöverschen Truppen in Gibraltar, Minorca und Ostindien (in German). Hanover: Helwingsche Hofbuchhandlung. p. 8.