Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz is appointed…

Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz is appointed chief-of-staff to the only army Prussia is able to mobilize, which has been sent to the Polish border, in 1831

The soldier, military historian, and influential military theorist, who dies on November 16 at fifty-one in the cholera epidemic of this year, will become most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, unfinished at his death and published posthumously by his wife in 1832.

Translated into English as On War, the West's premier work on the philosophy of war, it is one of the most important treatises on strategy ever written, and is prescribed at various military academies to this day.