Johann Ulrich von Salis-Soglio

Johann Ulrich von Salis-Soglio (* 16th of March 1790 in Chur; † 27th of April 1874[1]) was a Swiss General who in the year of 1847 commanded the conservative Sonderbund alliance in the Sonderbund War.

Johann U. von Salis-Soglio in a drawing from XXI

Career

He chose a military career at a young age and became a member of the Swiss Army in 1809. Between 1809 and 1839 he served as an officer in foreign service in Bavaria and the Netherlands , rising to the rank of major general . He joined the General Staff of the Swiss Army in the rank of colonel in 1841.[2][3]

References
  1. According to the ADB, the 17th of April 1871.
  2. Adolf Collenberg: Salis, Johann Ulrich von (Soglio) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  3. Georg von Wyß (1890), "Salis-Soglio, Johann Ulrich von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 30, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 249–251


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