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held a minor post in the Prussian internal-revenue service. Clausewitz entered the Prussian military service at the age of twelve as a lance corporal, eventually attaining the rank of major general.

Clausewitz served in the Rhine campaigns (1793-1794) including the siege of Mainz, when the Prussian Army invaded France during the French Revolution,

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