Karl von Alten

(1764-1840)
Name
Alten 1
Nation
Hanover
Rating
4" G(6)+1
Drop
-1
Validated forI

Command Ratings

Cavalry or Temp Corps
6"G(5)+1
Points: 21

Commands & Units

  • Commands the Light Division of Allied Army at Salamanca (1812, age 48)
  • Commands the Light Division of Allied Army at Salamanca (1812, age 48)
  • Commands the Light Division of Allied Army at Orthez (1814, age 50)
  • Commands the Third Division of I Corps at Waterloo (1815, age 51)
No biography is available for this general.
A count and a native Hanoverian, he was in the Hanoverian army 1783 – 1803, then transferred to the British army. He is the brother to Alten #2. With the KGL as a junior officer in Hanover, Copenhagen, Sweden & Walcheren from 1805-1809. X 11 Albuera; X (Mixed) 12 – W; XX (Lt. Div.) 12-14 Salamanca, W, Vittoria, W, Nivelle River, Orthez; XX 15 Waterloo (wounded). Back in the Hanoverian service after 1814, he was a Major General in 1816 & eventually a Hanoverian field marshal. (1764 – 1840)

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