Baron Georg Johan Maidel ( Swede. Georg Johan Maidel ; 1648 - 1710 , Revel ) - Swedish military leader, infantry general (1706), participant in the Northern War (1700-21) .
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Biography
Representative of an ancient noble family . He served in the Swedish, since 1665 - in the Spanish armies, participated in wars with France, the Netherlands, in 1675 he returned to Swedish service as a captain, in 1676 he was a lieutenant colonel , in 1686 he was a colonel , he was elevated for military services in 1693 the swedish king in baronial dignity.
Since the beginning of the Northern War in 1700, Major General , in the spring of 1700, Charles XII was sent from Finland to Livonia at the head of a corps of 7,000 people. With the opening of the campaign against Russia in the fall of 1700, he acted under the command of the cavalry general O. Welling , defeated the Russian troops at Purtz in Estonia [3] , and soon participated in the defeat of the Russian army near Narva .
In 1703 - lieutenant general and commandant of Vyborg . In 1705, made an unsuccessful attempt to seize St. Petersburg ; in 1706, Vyborg defended against the attack of Peter I, received the rank of general from infantry .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Georg Johan Maydell - 1917.
- ↑ Nationalencyklopedin - 1999.
- ↑ A. Petrov. Narva operation // Military collection. - St. Petersburg: Publishing. Ministry of War of the Russian Empire, 1872. - No. 7 ..