Page "Carl von Clausewitz" Paragraph 10

Clausewitz was promoted to Major-General in 1818 and appointed director of the Kriegsakademie, where he served until 1830.

In that year the outbreak of several revolutions around Europe and a crisis in Poland appeared to presage another major European war.

Clausewitz was appointed chief of staff of the only army Prussia was able to mobilize, which was sent to the Polish border.

He died after commanding the Prussian army's efforts to construct a cordon sanitaire to contain the great cholera outbreak in 1831 ( the first time cholera had appeared in Europe, causing a continent-wide panic ).