Heinrich Karl Ludwig Herault de Seigneur de Hautcharmoy (* 1689 in Wesel , † 11th May 1757 in Margaret monastery at Prague ) was a Prussian Lieutenant-General, Knight of the Black Eagle and commander of Brieg. His family was originally from France, and his father served as subordinate to Friedrich von Schomberg. Both were killed at the Battle of the Boyne.
After a difficult childhood, he entered the Berlin cadet corps and was around 1706, a Prussian contingent of 8,000 troops in the War of Spanish Succession sent. He fought as an infantryman in Italy during the relief of Turin, Milan, the siege of Toulon , the conquest of Susa, in the battle of Calcinato and the storming of Capri and regions.
From 1708 to 1711 he was in the Netherlands. He drew the siege of Lille (Ryssel) and Ghent from, so on January 1709 he was recruited as a cadet in the battalion of the Heyden. On 20 September he was given the task of an engineer (Conductuers). 1709, he was at the capture of Tournai (Tournay), the battle of Malplaquet, and thereby the capture of Mons. In 1710 he fought at Douai and Aire and 1711 at Bouchain. On 20 April 1711 he was Second Lieutenant.
1713 brought in Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau in the Infantry Regiment. On 26 November 1715 he was First Lieutenant. In the Pomeranian campaign of 1715/1716 he was with the siege of Stralsund and Rügen on the landing. There he served as the adjutant. On 17 November 1717 he was Staff Captain, and on 24 December 1718 he was captain and commander of a company. On 18 November 1726 he was colonel police constable, succeeding Lieutenant Colonel Brandt in Magdeburg. On 14 April 1730 he was Quartermaster General Lieutenant, plus he was on 22 April or official captain of Angerburg.
In August 1738 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and took over the rule of Joachim Ernst von Zimmernow . As early as 1740 he took over the Infantry Regiment No. 26 (Kleist). In the first of the Silesian Wars, he was able to join the battle of Ottmachau in which he characterized a strategically important bridge over the Neisse occupied and held. In the battle of Mollwitz he was wounded. On 5 June 1741 he became a colonel and commander of Brigade. On 30 January 1742 he took over the Infantry Regiment No. 28 and on 27 May 1743 promoted to Major General. In 1744 he fought under General Karl Heinrich von der Marwitz in Upper Silesia and was on 5 September 1744, victorious over the fortress of Cosel. On 8 September 1753 he was promoted to lieutenant general, and he also received the Black Eagle conferred.
Frederick II rewarded the services and after the Silesian wars, he was rewarded with a prebend to 1746, Kalkar. 1748 he received an extra pay of 600 dollars. 1752, the Silesian estate Saints in December 1754 and even the nobility Municipal feud in Halberstadt's.
In the Seven Years' War it was during the Battle of Prague, he was mortally wounded and unhorsed. He was taken to the Margaret Monastery near Prague, where he died 11 days after the battle of his wounds. He was also buried there.
For his work, his name was built in 1851 on one of the plaques at the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great, immortalized.
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