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Ernst von Rchel was a Prussian general who led an army corps in a crushing defeat by Napoleon at the Battle of Jena onOctober 1806. He commanded troops from the Kingdom of Prussia in several battles during the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793 and 1794. Afterward he held various appointments as a diplomat and a military inspector. In 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars he held an important army command but has been criticized for his actions at Jena. Wounded, he managed to escape the French pursuit, but never commanded troops in combat again.
Rchel was born onJuly 1754 in Ziezeneff in Prussian Pomerania .
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