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SALDERN, See also:FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH VON (1719-1785) , Prussian soldier and military writer, entered the See also:army in 1735; and (on See also:account of his See also:great stature) was transferred to the See also:Guards in 1739. As one of See also:Frederick's aides-de=See also:camp he was the first to discover the approach of Neipperg's Austrians at Mollwitz. He commanded a guard See also:battalion at See also:Leuthen, again distinguished himself at Hochkirch and was promoted See also:major-See also:general. In 176o at See also:Liegnitz Frederick gave him four See also:hours in which to collect, arrange and despatch the spoils of the See also:battle, 6000 prisoners, 10o wagons, 82 guns and 5000 muskets. His See also:complete success made him a marked See also:man even in Frederick's army. At See also:Torgau, Saldern and See also:Mollendorf (q.v.) with their brigades converted a lost battle into a great victory by their desperate See also:assault on the Siptitz Heights. The manoeuvring skill, as well as the See also:iron See also:resolution, of the attack, has excited the wonder of See also:modern critics, and after Torgau Saldern was accounted the " completest general of See also:infantry alive " (See also:Carlyle). In the following See also:winter, however, being ordered by Frederick to See also:sack See also:Hubertusburg, Saldern refused on the ground of See also:conscience. Nothing was See also:left for him but to retire, but Frederick was well aware that he needed Saldern's experience and organizing ability, and after the See also:peace the general was at once made inspector of the troops at See also:Magdeburg. In 1766 he became See also:lieutenant-general. The See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent in the study of military sciences in which he became a See also:pedant of the most pronounced type. In one of his See also:works he discussed at great length the question between 76 and 75 paces to the See also:minute as the proper See also:cadence of infantry.

There can be no question that " Saldern-See also:

tactics " were the most extreme See also:form of pedantry to which troops were ever subjected, and contributed powerfully to the disaster of See also:Jena in 18o6. His works included Taktik der Infanterie (See also:Dresden, 1784) and Taktische Grundsdtze (Dresden, 1786), and were the basis of the See also:British " Dundas " See also:drill-See also:book. See Kiister, Charakterziige See also:des Generalleutenants von Saldern (See also:Berlin, 1792).

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