Mihály Lajos Jeney

Mihály Lajos Jeney (also known as French author: Louis Michel de Jeney or English name as: Lewis Michael de Jeney or as German combat commander Ludwig Michael von Jeney - b. 1723 or 1724 in Transylvania, d. 1797 in Pécs) – Hungarian military officer and general of Austro-Hungarian Army, mapmaker. Born in noble protestant family, starts military service as hussar probably during 1737-1739 war against Turkey, on 1739-1754 served in Bercsényi hussar regiment. Between 1754 and 1758 served in French army near Rhine as mapmaker. During Seven Years' War 1758-1763 served in Prussian Army as captain of military engineers. On 1787 nominated as major-general of Austro-Hungarian Army as Alt-Gradisko (now: Stara Gradiška in Kroatia) fortress commander. Author of popular manual of tactics: The Partisan, or the Art of Making War in Detachment... published in 1759 (French edition: Hag) and English edition: London 1760, translated into many languages. After Seven Year’s War he provide military survey of Hungarian-Austrian Kingdom and result were 3324 sheets of topographic maps 1:28 000 and 1:96 000.

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de Jeney's "The Partisan" in translations

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