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HOHENLOHE-INGELFINGEN, FRIEDRICH LUD WIG, PRINCE OF Prussian general, entered the Prussian service in 1768, and fought in the campaign on the Rhine in 1794. In 1806 Hohenlohe commanded the left-wing army of the Prussian forces opposing Napoleon, having under him Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. Disputes soon broke out between Hohenlohe and the commander-in-chief, the duke of Brunswick, the armies marched hither and thither without effective results and finally Hohenlohe's army was almost destroyed by Napoleon at Jena (see NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGNS). He surrendered the remnant of his army at Prenzlau on Oct. 28, a fortnight after Jena and three weeks after the beginning of hostilities. After two years spent as a prisoner of war in France Hohenlohe retired to his estates. He died on Feb. 15, 1818. He had, in Aug. 1806, just before the outbreak of the French War, resigned the princi pality to his eldest son, not being willing to become a "mediatized" ruler under Wurttemberg suzerainty.

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