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First Legion
As a Major during the campaign of 1806-1807, Gneisenau was a staff officer on Prince Hohenlohe's Staff. He distinguished himself as commandant of Kolberg where he held out until the treaty of Tilsit in 1807, an action which earned him promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. He played a role in the reorganization of the Prussian military between 1807 and 1813 when Prussia once again took up arms against the French.
He was assigned as Blucher's quartermaster and thus the paths of these two men crossed and they would continue to serve together until the end of the Napoleonic Wars with Gneisenau as Blucher's Chief of Staff, second only in command to Blucher himself.
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