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Condizione: Good. August 29, 1868., 1868. Good. - An autograph document, dated August 29, 1868, penned in a secretarial hand on 13-3/8 inch high by 8-3/8 inch wide creamy white paper signed "Friedrich Wilhelm Kpz [Crown Prince]" by the future Emperor and King of Prussia. The document is addressed to the Royal General in Command of the Army Corps at Breslau who at the time was Wilhelm von Tumpling. The document orders that a particular Second Lieutenant be named his Ordnance Officer during Army Corps maneuvers in mid-September. The document is annotated and signed on the verso by four officers in the chain of command. The first, dated August 31 from Breslau, is signed by the Prussian General der Kavallerie Wilhelm von Tumpling. Wilhelm von Tumpling (1809-1884) commanded a division in the Austro-Prussian War and the VI Army Corps during the Franco-Prussian War. Folded several times vertically and once horizontally with short tears to the top and bottom edges of the vertical folds and a longer tear along most of the horizontal center fold which has been repaired with clear archival document tape. There is early tape repair to two of the short tears at the top and bottom of the document. Frederick (Friedrich) III (1831-1888.), the German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days. The son of the King of Prussia, Emperor Wilhelm I, Frederick was raised in his family's military tradition. Although a reluctant warrior Frederick served in high levels of command in the 3 wars that led to German unification. In the Second Schleswig War of 1864 he was an advisor on the staff of Field Marshal Wrangel. During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 he commanded the Prussian Second Army. He turned a potential stalemate into a Prussian victory at the Battle of Koenigraetz. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 he was Commander of the Third Army, leading his forces to victories in the Battles of Wissembourg and Worth. At the Siege of Sedan his troops surrounded the French army and captured Emperor Napoleon III. Frederick was a vigorous opponent of Bismarck and was popular with ordinary soldiers.…