I think my favorite Prussian General or Generalfeldmarschall is Gebhard von Blucher. This glorious crimson-soaked gem of a man was known as “Marshal Forwards” due to his aggressive, drunken and dangerous battlefield tactics which often or always manifested in the form of bloodlust-fuelled, chaotic charges at the enemy. When Blucher wasn’t drinking himself into a Cognac coated early grave and making meat paste out of motherless Frenchies, he was busy rambling about his new obsession of the day. He often believed French soldiers lived inside his body, intent on tormenting him. On one occasion he became unshakeably grounded in the belief that his Baguette eating foes had turned him into glass and set him on fire. He even became convinced he was pregnant with a baby elephant sired unto him by an enemy grenadier. To put it lightly, they gave a psychopathic, schizophrenic aristocrat a sword, horse and uniform and let said mental patient wreak havoc on the enemy. Can you imagine the sheer terror of seeing this moustachioed menace charging at you on his entrails-smeared horse, like a deranged fox hunter, all the while making trumpet noises through a cracked brandy bottle for his own sadistic amusement. Then, at the end of the entire thing, as he was just sitting there, twitching and tweaking, the Hohenzollerns would just throw another medal on him for fun. The man was their personal rabid dog. “Oh he’s harmless, that’s just old Blucheypoo… don’t get too close or he might chew your ear-cartilage off.”

His war horse crushed him in the middle of battle and seriously injured old Blucher. Was he worried about getting help or surviving? No… he was concerned with being bored. He played dead and waited for the French to charge right over him, and then immediately demanded another horse so he could go on fighting, as if nothing had happened. The man was made of nails.

Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prinz von Wahlstatt.

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