York von Wartenburg

York von Wartenburg, HANS DAVID LUDWIG (1759-1830), Prussian field-marshal and count, was the son of a Pomeranian, Captain von York (or Jarek), descended, according to the family tradition, from an English family that had settled during the Stewart troubles first in Sweden and then in Pomerania. Young York entered the army in 1772, was cashiered for insubordination, and served the Dutch in the East Indies, but returning to the Prussian service gained glory in the wars of 1794, 1806, and 1812. He was especially distinguished during the war of liberation and the invasion of France (1813-14). Ennobled in 1814, he was made a field-marshal in 1821.