Willich's dad was a captain of Prussian hussars in the Napoleonic Wars, so you know he was completely baller Anyhoo he gets tired of the whole Prussian thing and becomes a communist in the uprisings of '48. Like ya do. Friedrich Engels was his aide de camp Straight up
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Things don't go well for the '48ers so Willich tails off to Switzerland to do rebellious communist things but not Marx communist, because apparently Marx was too conservative Willich challenges Marx to a damn duel. Yup. Pistols. Dawn. Etc.But Marx won't fight.
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So Willich is like "whatever" but then one of Marx's little buds challenges Willich to a duel, which they do in Belgium, and Willich wings the young Marxist and decides it's time for a change & takes off to the US in 1853 & ends up in Ohio as one of the "Ohio Hegelians" I KNOW
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Then there's the civil war that so many people are talking about. Willich does some cool inventing shit, like wagons that can turn into bridges. Which is legit. Ooh, and wats more baller is that his troops actually FORM SQUARE against Terry's Texas Rangers & kill Terry hisself
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At Shiloh, Willich is in command of the 32d Indiana and when the regiment wavers, he no shit stands in front of them & leads them in the manual of arms to chill them out. He then has the band play La Marseillaise and then they all bayonet charge some traitors Coz why not
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Willich gets captured later, then paroled, and is back in time for Chattanooga aka "let's bend Bragg over and spank him till he cries". Willich's brigade seizes Orchard Knob and then is all " fuckit" and goes up Missionary Ridge, with the 6th Ohio and 32d Indy making it up first
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He gets wounded but makes it through the war like a legit boss In 1870 he volunteers his services to Prussia in the Franco Prussian war but he's too old and communist & Prussia is like nah. He dies in 1878. The people who have worn the uniform of the US Army are AMAZEBALLS
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Again at shiloh he calmed his regiment which was under fire by having them do the manual of arms with his BACK to the enemy then had the band play La Marseillaise then did a bayonet charge all of which Lew Wallace used as inspiration for a scene in Ben Hur like wut
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oh, and the 32nd Indiana didn't bother to reenlist because of the nativist sentiments against Germans Yeah Same bullshit, different year
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he does look the very model of a modern major general
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literate r u
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