2-715-124 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Entry of Prince Leopold I into Dessau after the War of the Spanish Succession Spanish Succession, 1712, (1936). 'Einzug Des Fürsten Leopold I In Dessau Nach Beendigung Des Spanischen Erbfolgekrieges, 1712'. Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676-1747) of the House of Ascania was ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau in Germany from 1693 to 1747. He was also a Generalfeldmarschall in the Prussian army. Nicknamed 'the Old Dessauer' (der alte Dessauer), he possessed good abilities as a field commander, but was mainly remembered as a talented drillmaster who modernized the Prussian infantry. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]