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1780 – 1831Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)Died 16 November 1831, aged 51Clausewitz was a Prussian general and military theorist whose unfinished treatise On War became one of the most influential works on strategy ever written. He died of cholera in Breslau shortly after returning from duty during the Polish uprising.