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PAUL (1832-1891) , Prussian See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Danzig in 1832. He entered the Prussian See also:Guards in 1849, and was appointed to the general See also:staff in 1861 as a See also:captain; after three years of staff service he returned to regimental See also:duty, but was soon reappointed to the staff, and lectured at the See also:war See also:academy, becoming See also:major in 1865 and lieut.-See also:colonel in 1869. During the war of 187o he was See also:chief of a See also:section on the See also:Great General Staff, and conducted the preliminary negotiations for the surrender of the See also:French at See also:Sedan. After the war Bronsart was made a colonel and chief of staff of the Guard See also:army See also:corps, becoming major-general in 1876 and lieut.-general (with a See also:division command) in 1881. Two years later he became war See also:minister, and during his See also:tenure of the See also:post (1883–1889) many important reforms were carried out in the Prussian army, in particular the introduction of the See also:magazine See also:rifle. He was appointed in 1889 to command the I. army corps at See also:Konigsberg. He died on the 23rd of See also:June 1'891 at his See also:estate near See also:Braunsberg. Bronsart's military writings include two See also:works of great importance—Ein Riickblick auf See also:die taktiscken Rii.ckblicke (2nd ed., See also:Berlin, 187o), a pamphlet written in reply to Captain May's See also:Tactical Retrospect of 1866; and Der Dienst See also:des Generalstabes (1st ed., Berlin, 1876; 3rd ed. revised by General Meckel, 1893; new ed. by the author's son, Major Bronsart von Schellendorf, Berlin, 1904, a comprehensive See also:treatise on the duties of the general staff. The third edition of this See also:work was soon after its publication translated into See also:English and issued officially to the See also:British army as The Duties of the General Staff. Major Bronsart's new edition of 1904 was re-issued in English by the General Staff, under the same See also:title, in 19o5.

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