John Adolph of Nassau-Usingen

Johann Adolph of Nassau- Usingen ( born July 17, 1740 in Biebrich, † December 10, 1793 in Wiesbaden) was Count of Saarbrücken and Saarwerden, Mr. Lahr, Wiesbaden and Idstein and French royal Prussian Major-General and Chief of the Fusilier Regiment 47

He was the son of the reigning Prince Charles of Nassau- Usingen and his wife Christiane Wilhelmine of Saxe- Eisenach.

Life

In 1749 he went with his older brothers in the Netherlands. There he stayed for three years for training in Utrecht. In 1752 he went to French services and became a colonel. He got the Infantry Regiment of Colonel von Fersen. 1758 he trade it for the cavalry regiment of Nassau- Saarbrücken.

Perpetual of the Seven Years War, he was from 1757 to 1761 with the French troops in Germany. He was in the battles Halstenbeck, special Hausen, Lutterberg, Bergen and Minden it. Furthermore, at the siege of Kassel and Wolfenbüttel, as in the fighting of Green Mountain and Armöneburg. In the battle of Sondershausen he was hit in the left shoulder.

In 1760 he received the Order Pour le Merite Militaire 1761, he was brigadier and 1762 Maréchal de camp. In 1763 he was awarded the Palatine Hubertus Order.

In 1764 he joined the Prussian service under Frederick II. , He became the Prussian Major-General and got the Fusilier Regiment No. 47 ( Grabow ). In the Bavarian Succession War, he was assigned to the army of Prince Henry. He was to have but embezzled funds accused army, after which he indignantly quit the service. In 1793 he is still awarded the Pour le Merite.

He died unmarried in 1793 in Wiesbaden.