by
Freiherr von Christian Ompteda
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Colonel Baron Christian Ompteda, 1765-1815, was one of the most distinguished Hanoverian officers of the Napoleonic period. He served in the Netherlands in 1793-5 and was orderly to the Duke of York, but he was wounded and suffered the first of his mental breakdowns.
One of the early members of the...