Ludwig Samson Heinrich Arthur Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen was a Bavarian general.
Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl, c. 1860
First Schleswig War
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The First Schleswig War, also known as the Schleswig-Holstein uprising and the Three Years' War, was a military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig–Holstein quest
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen
…II). In 1848 he was promoted to major, and in that year he distinguished himself greatly as the leader of a Schleswig-Holstein light corps in the First Schleswig War between Denmark and a coalition of German states. At the close of the first campaign he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle by the king of Prussia…
Danish soldiers return to Copenhagen in 1849 by Otto Bache (1894)