. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. ugusta Amalia, was married 2d Aug., 1804, to LouisWilliam, Landgrave of Hesse-Hombourg (died 19th Jan., 1839); separated was the daughter of Duke Frederick Augustus (died 24th March, 1816, the lastof his house) and of Louise, bom Princess of Waldeck (died 17th Nov., 1816). TheAlmanach de Gotha does not recognize the subsequent marriage with Count Bis-marck. t The battle of Chotusitz was fought the 17th May, 1742, by Frederick II., when 62 CHAELES ALEXANDEE VON BISMAECK. Minister-President in person is extremely like this Bismarck, hisgre
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. ugusta Amalia, was married 2d Aug., 1804, to LouisWilliam, Landgrave of Hesse-Hombourg (died 19th Jan., 1839); separated was the daughter of Duke Frederick Augustus (died 24th March, 1816, the lastof his house) and of Louise, bom Princess of Waldeck (died 17th Nov., 1816). TheAlmanach de Gotha does not recognize the subsequent marriage with Count Bis-marck. t The battle of Chotusitz was fought the 17th May, 1742, by Frederick II., when 62 CHAELES ALEXANDEE VON BISMAECK. Minister-President in person is extremely like this Bismarck, hisgreat-grandfather, who was an excellent soldier, and high in favorwith Frederick the Great. August Frederick was twice married,first to Stephanie von Dewitz, and then to Frederica Charlotte vonTresckow. The second son of the first marriage of this brave soldier wasthe intellectual Charles Alexander von Bismarck, born in was about to accompany his maternal uncle, one of the VonDewitz family, to his post, which was that of Prussian Ambassa-. CHARLES ALEXANDER VON BISMARCK. dor to Vienna, when Frederick the Great appointed his future tobe otherwise. Charles Alexander entered the royal chamber anattache of the embassy, but quitted it as a cavalry officer. Hewas averse to the military art, and soon obtained his discharge asa captain. Oa the 5th of March, 1762, he married ChristineCharlotte Gottliebe von Schonfeld—born the 25th of December, he obtained a victory over the Austrians under Prince Karl of Lorraine. The placehas some 1200 inhabitants, and is situated near Czaslau in Bohemia. This deci-ded the cession of almost the whole of ISilesia.—K. E. II. M. CHRISTINE VON BISMARCK. 63 1741; deceased on the 22d of October, 1772—her mother havingbeen a sister of his mother, one of the Dewitz family. An ele-gant French composition, by Charles Alexander, is preserved ; aspirited and touching memorial of his departed wife, in the infla-ted style of those days. The title of this
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