Johann Sigismund Riesch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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austrian general
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Johann Sigismund Riesch
- Johann Sigismund Graf von Riesch (2 August 1750 – 2 November 1821) joined the army of Habsburg Austria as a cavalry officer and, during his career, fought against the Kingdom of Prussia, Ottoman Turkey, Revolutionary France, and Napoleon's French Empire.
- He became a general officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and held important commands during the War of the Second Coalition.
- He displayed a talent for leading cavalry formations, but proved less capable when given corps-sized commands.
- During the 1805 Ulm Campaign in the Napoleonic Wars, the French badly defeated his corps and forced it to surrender soon afterward.
- From 1806 to his death in 1821, he was the Proprietor (Inhaber) of an Austrian cavalry regiment.
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