General of the Infantry Georg Wilhelm Baron von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen was a Hanoverian Army officer. Born in Minden, he joined the Hanoverian army in 1743 and served in the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years' War, seeing action at the battles of Minden and Lutterberg. Bussche also commanded a Hanoverian battalion during the Great Siege of Gibraltar in the American Revolutionary War. During the War of the First Coalition, he fought at the battles of Valenciennes, Hondschoote, Mouscron, Tourcoing and Tournai. In 1794, while defending the Dutch town of Bommelerwaard from the French army, his hand was torn off by a cannonball and he died shortly afterward.
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- July 19, 1726
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