BRUNSWICK - BEVERN, AUGUST WILHELM, DUKE OF (1715-1781), Prussian soldier, son of Ernst Ferdinand, • duke of Brunswick-Bevern, entered the Prussian army in 1731. He commanded a wing in the battle of Lobositz in 1756, and defeated the Austrians under Marshal Konigsegg at Reichenberg on April 21, He took part in the battles of Prague and Kolin and the retreat to Gorlitz, and subsequently commanded the Prussians left behind by Frederick in the autumn of 1757 when he marched against the French. Bevern conducted a de fensive campaign against overwhelming numbers with great skill, but he soon lost the valuable assistance of Gen. Winterfeld, who was killed in a skirmish at Moys; and he was eventually brought to battle and suffered a heavy defeat at Breslau on Nov. 22. He fell into the hands of the Austrians on the following morning, and remained prisoner for a year. On Aug. II, 1762, he inflicted defeat at Reichenbach on an Austrian army endeavouring to relieve Schweidnitz. Bevern retired, after the Peace of Hubertus burg, to his government of Stettin, where he died in 1781.