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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Karl Aloys Zu Fürstenberg, Johann Heinrich Von Schmitt. Excerpt: 48°2314N 15°3113E / 48.38722°N 15.52028°E / 48.38722; 15.52028 item Allegiance: Habsburg Monarchy item Service/branch: Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army item Rank: Lieutenant Field Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Karl Aloys Zu Fürstenberg, Johann Heinrich Von Schmitt. Excerpt: 48°2314N 15°3113E / 48.38722°N 15.52028°E / 48.38722; 15.52028 item Allegiance: Habsburg Monarchy item Service/branch: Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army item Rank: Lieutenant Field Marshal item Battles/wars: French Revolutionary Wars War of the Third Coalition end{sloppypar Heinrich Schmitt was a lieutenant field marshal in the Habsburg military during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He developed a sound military reputation as a surveyor, map-maker, and strategist during Austria's wars with the Ottoman Empire, He served on the Quartermaster's staff during the War of the First Coalition. As a major general, he was one of Archduke Charles trusted advisers during the War of the Second Coalition campaign in southwestern Germany. In 1799, his reputation was tarnished by the assassination of the French delegates to the Congress of Rastatt in 1799, and he retired the following year. When war broke out again in 1805, he was recalled from retirement and assigned to the combined Russian-Austrian forces on the Danube. On 11 November, Schmitt was killed by friendly fire at the Battle of Dürenstein. Family and education Heinrich Schmitt was born in 1743, the son of Johann Sebastian von Schmitt, a captain of cavalry in the Imperial Cuirassier Regiment Graf Cordova. Schmitt may have been born in Pest (Budapest) in Hungary, or, as other sources claim, in Bavaria. In 174243, his father's regiment participated in the Battle of Sahay, and then in the Siege of Prague, followed by duty in Bavaria and the Rhineland in 1743. His father died in 1752it is unclear whereand on 25 June 1758, at the age of 14 years, Schmitt enrolled in the Imperial School Books, , Military-Leaders-of-the-French-Revolutionary-Wars-Killed-in-Battle~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<