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Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke



Moltke, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von (1801–91), Prussian and, later, German chief of staff (1858–88). A strategist of genius, he won victories against Denmark (1864), Austria (1866), and France (1870), greatly furthering German unification.



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