Charles-Gustave de Falkenhayn

Charles-Gustave de Falkenhayn (14 July 1724 - 1793 or later[1]) was a French general of German ancestry.

He became a colonel in the Regiment Royal-Pologne in 1754 and commanded the Regiment de Baviere from 1762. He was promoted to brigadier in 1762 and marechal de camp in 1770. He was second-in-command of the Franco-Spanish Invasion of Minorca in 1781 and also came into contact with Benjamin Franklin in 1783.[2]

References
  1. Andreas Georg Waehner, Sigrid Dahmen, Tagebuch aus dem Siebenjährigen Krieg, 2012, page 9, footnote 47
  2. Ellen Cohn (ed.), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: January 21 through May 15, 1783, pages 339-340
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