Talk:Ludwig Albrecht von Rohr

Dates discrepancy

The citation that give his full name is:

• Geneagraphie staff (5 September 2008), "Ludwig Albrecht von Roh", Geneagraphie - Families all over the world
  • Schulz, Gerhard (1979), Die v. Rohr auf Tramnitz und Trieplatz, Archiv für Sippenforschung, p. 71

The citations that give the place of death are:

• Hofschröer, Peter (1998), 1815, the Waterloo Campaign: Wellington, his German allies and the battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras, vol. 1 (illustrated ed.), Greenhill Books, p. 281, ISBN 9781853673047
• Wit, Pierre de (17 May 2014), "Ligny: The attack on Saint Amand and Saint Amand la Haye", The campaign of 1815: a study, Emmen, the Netherlands {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

The problem is that the date of death given in the first source is 19 June (one day after the Battle of Waterloo, while the date of death given in the last two citations is 16 June. There are several possible explanations:

• The fist source has the date of death wrong
• The last two sources may mean he was mortally wounded on 16th. So if he took three days to die then they tally, but this seems unlikely as the Prussians would have been in a position to recover his body or if they did to transport him to Waterloo rather than Wavre.

Another more likely explanation is that the 19 year old was not the major who died at Ligny, but another Rohr such as Captain von Rhor who commanded the sharpshooters of the 2nd battalion of the 29th regiment led by captain Von Rohr (Wit 2014, p. 2). In such a case he could have been wounded at Waterloo and died the next day or killed the day after Waterloo during the pursuit of the French. More research needs to be done.

-- PBS (talk) 19:30, 4 August 2014 (UTC)