Michael von Fröhlich
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Michael, Freiherr von Fröhlich (9 January 1740 – 1814) was a German general officer serving in army of the
Wars of the French Revolution
.
Service
Fröhlich was born in
Dittersbach and captured 110 prisoners. In 1783 he became Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) and in 1788 Oberst (colonel). On 27 May 1789 during the war against Turkey he defended Dobroselo
with Oberst Weiler for over 10 hours with only 1,500 men against 10,000 enemies.
Promoted
Feldmarschall-Leutnant and commanded a mixed column of Austrian, Émigré and Kreis-Armee soldiers on the left wing of the Army of the Upper Rhine under Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser. From 18 June 1796 he served under Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour. Following Moreau’s crossing of the Rhine he was cut off 24 June, but was able to reunite with the forces of the Archduke Charles at Nördlingen on 10 August. He was then made commander of the 11,000 man corps connected to Latour on the Lech in the Vorarlberg. He served at the combat of Kammlach 13th, then the following month faced Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino on the upper Iller and Tyrol, pursuing him during Moreau's retreat to the Rhine. Fröhlich joined with Charles and Latour to defeat Moreau at the Battle of Emmendingen on 19 October 1796 and Battle of Schliengen
five days later.
In 1799 he was made Colonel
Battle of the Trebia on 19 June. He occupied Plaisance, and was at the Battle of Novi on 15 August 1799. He then took command of troops in Tuscany and the Papal States, besieging and eventually capturing Ancona
.
From 1803 to 1810 he was Commandant of the
Fortress of Olmütz
, then went into retirement and died at the age of 74 in Troppau, Silesia.
Bibliography
- Clausewitz, Carl von (2020). Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-3025-7
- Clausewitz, Carl von (2021). The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-3034-9