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RUSTOW, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1821-1878)

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RUSTOW, See also:FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1821-1878) , Swiss soldier and military writer, was a Prussian by See also:birth. He entered the service of his native See also:country, and served for some years, until the publication of Der Deutsche Militdrstaat vor isnd wdhrend der Revolution (See also:Zurich, 185o) brought him See also:official condemnation. He was sentenced by a See also:court-See also:martial to a See also:long 'See also:term of fortress imprisonment, but succeeded in escaping to See also:Switzerland. He obtained military employment in the service of the See also:Republic, and in 1857 was' See also:major on the engineer See also:staff. Three years later he accompanied See also:Garibaldi in the famous expedition against the two Sicilies as See also:colonel and See also:chief of the staff, and to him must be ascribed the victories of See also:Capua (19th See also:Sept. 186o) and the See also:Volturno (1st Oct. x86o). At the end of the See also:campaign he once more settled down at Zurich. At the out-break of the See also:war of 187o he offered' his services to See also:Prussia, but was not accepted. In 1878, on the See also:foundation of a military professorship at Zurich, Rustow applied for the See also:post, and, on its being given to another officer, lost See also:heart and committed See also:suicide. Two younger See also:brothers, both Prussian soldiers, were also distinguished men. The See also:elder, See also:ALEXANDER (1824-1866), is remembered for his See also:work Der Kustenkrieg "(See also:Berlin, 1848); the younger, See also:CAESAR (1826-1866), was one of the foremost experts of his See also:time in the See also:design and construction of military rifles, and the writer of several See also:treatises on that subject, of which we may mention See also:Die Kriegshandfeuerwaffen (Berlin, 1857-64). Both Alexander and Caesar See also:fell on the See also:field of See also:battle in the war of 1866, at See also:Koniggratz and Dermbach respectively.

Amongst F. W. Rustow's See also:

works, which covered nearly every See also:branch of the military See also:art, a large number must be mentioned. See also:Historical—Heerwesen and Kriegfiihrung See also:Julius Casars (See also:Gotha, 1855; 2nd ed., See also:Nordhausen, 1862), Kommentar zu See also:Napoleon III.'s Geschichte Julius Casars (See also:Stuttgart, 1865-67), Geschichte See also:des Griechischen Kriegswesens (in collaboration with Kachly, Aarau, 1852), Militdr. Biographen (See also:David, See also:Xenophon, See also:Montluc) (Zurich, 1858), Geschichte der Infanterie (Gotha, 1857–58; 3rd ed., 1884), Die Ersten Feldziige Napoleons 7796–7797 (Zurich, 1867), Der Krieg von' 8o5 in Deutschland and Italien (See also:Frauenfeld, 1854), Geschichte des Ungarischen It surrektionkrieges 1848–49 (Zurich, 1860), reminiscences of 186o in See also:Italy (See also:Leipzig, 1861) and monographs on the See also:campaigns of 1848–49 in Italy (Zurich, 1849) and the See also:Crimean War (Zurich, 1855–56). See also:Critical and See also:General—Allgemeine Taktik (Zurich, 1858; 2nd ed., 1868), Kriegspolitik and Kriegsgebrauch (Zurich, 1876), Militar-Handwerterbuch (Zurich, 1859), Die Feldherrnkunst des XIX Jahrhunderts (Zurich, 1857; 3rd ed., 1878–79), Der Krieg and See also:seine Mittel (Leipzig, 1856). He also wrote Annalen des Kbnigreichs Ballets (Zurich, 1862-63)). See Zernim, " F. W. Rustow," in Unsere Zeit. vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1882).

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