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Ferdinand von Schill was a second-lieutenant of dragoons when he was wounded at the battle of Auerstadt.

From that field he escaped to Kolberg, where he played a very prominent part in the celebrated siege of 1806 – 07, as the commander of a Freikorps, raiding behind the French lines.

After the Treaty of Tilsit, he was promoted to major and given the command of a hussar regiment formed primarily from his Kolberg men.