Borgard, Albert [Albrecht Borgaard or Borregaard] (1659–1751), artillery officer, was born at Holbæk, Jutland, on 10 November 1659 of unknown parents. He is generally referred to as Albert Borgard in English sources and Albrecht Borgaard or Borregaard in Danish. He joined the Danish army in the ...
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Königsmark [Coningsmark], Karl Johann, Count Königsmark in the Swedish nobility (1659–1686), army officer and accused accessory to murder, was of Swedish origin and was born at Nieuburg auf Fühnen in Germany on 15 May 1659. He was the son of General Kurt Christoph Königsmark (...
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See Königsmark [Coningsmark], Karl Johann, Count Königsmark in the Swedish nobility
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Thorn, William [formerly Wilhelm] (1780–1843), army officer and cartographer, was born on 22 May 1780 in Neuwied, near Koblenz, Germany, the youngest of five sons and one daughter born to master tailor Johann Philipp Thorn (1733–1798), whose second wife, Anna Catharina Singmeister...