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    "verified_text": "bull run, a small stream of virginia, u.s.a., which gave the name to two famous battles in the american civil war. (1) the first battle of bull run (called by the confederates manassas) was fought on the 21st of july 1861 between the union forces under brigadier-general irvin mcdowell and the confederates under general joseph e. johnston. both armies were newly raised and almost untrained. after a slight action on the 18th at blackburn's ford, the two armies prepared for a battle. the confederates were posted along bull run, guarding all the passages from the stone bridge down to the railway bridge. mcdowell's forces rendezvoused around centreville, and both commanders, sensible of the temper of their troops, planned a battle for the 21st. on his part mcdowell ordered one of his four divisions to attack the stone bridge, two to make a turning movement via sudley springs, the remaining division (partly composed of regular troops) was to be in reserve and to watch the lower fords. the local confederate commander, brigadier-general p.g.t. beauregard, had also intended to advance, and general johnston, who arrived by rail on the evening of the 20th with the greater part of a fresh army, and now assumed command of the whole force, approved an offensive movement against centreville for the 21st; but orders miscarried, and the federal attack opened before the movement had begun. johnston and beauregard then decided to fight a defensive battle, and hurried up troops to support the single brigade of evans which held the stone bridge. thus there was no serious fighting at the lower fords of bull run throughout the day. [illustration] the federal staff was equally inexperienced, and the divisions [v.04 p.0792] engaged in the turning movement met with many unnecessary checks. at 6 a.m., when the troops told off for the frontal attack appeared before the stone bridge, the turning movement was by no means well advanced. evans had time to change position so as to command both the stone bridge and sudley springs, and he was promptly supported by the brigades of bee, bartow and t.j. jackson. about 9.30 the leading federal brigade from sudley springs came into action, and two hours later evans, bee and bartow had been driven off the matthews hill in considerable confusion. but on the henry house hill jackson's brigade stood, as general bee said to his men, \"like a stone wall,\" and the defenders rallied, though the federals were continually reinforced. the fighting on the henry house hill was very severe, but mcdowell, who dared not halt to re-form his enthusiastic volunteers, continued to attack. about 1.30 p.m. he brought up two regular batteries to the fighting line; but a confederate regiment, being mistaken for friendly troops and allowed to approach, silenced the guns by close rifle fire, and from that time, though the hill was taken and retaken several times, the federal attack made no further headway. at 2.45 more of beauregard's troops had come up; jackson's brigade charged with the bayonet, and at the same time the federals were assailed in flank by the last brigades of johnston's army, which arrived at the critical moment from the railway. they gave way at once, tired out, and conscious that the day was lost, and after one rally melted away slowly to the rear, the handful of regulars alone keeping their order. but when, at the defile of the cub run, they came under shell fire the retreat became a panic flight to the potomac. the victors were too much exhausted to pursue, and the u.s. regulars of the reserve division formed a strong and steady rearguard. the losses were--federals, 2896 men out of about 18,500 engaged; confederates, 1982 men out of 18,000. (2) the operations of the last days of august 1862, which include the second battle of bull run (second manassas), are amongst the most complicated of the war. at the outset the confederate general lee's army (longstreet's and jackson's corps) lay on the rappahannock, faced by the federal army of virginia under major-general john pope, which was to be reinforced by troops from mcclellan's army to a total strength of 150,000 men as against lee's 60,000. want of supplies soon forced lee to move, though not to retreat, and his plan for attacking pope was one of the most daring in all military history. jackson with half the army was despatched on a wide turning movement which was to bring him via salem and thoroughfare gap to manassas junction in pope's rear; when jackson's task was accomplished lee and longstreet were to follow him by the same route. early on the 25th of august jackson began his march round the right of pope's army; on the 26th the column passed thoroughfare gap, and bristoe station, directly in pope's rear, was reached on the same evening, while a detachment drove a federal post from manassas junction. on the 27th the immense magazines at the junction were destroyed. on his side pope had soon discovered jackson's departure, and had arranged for an immediate attack on longstreet. when, however, the direction of jackson's march on thoroughfare gap became clear, pope fell back in order to engage him, at the same time ordering his army to concentrate on warrenton, greenwich and gainesville. he was now largely reinforced. on the evening of the 27th one of his divisions, marching to its point of concentration, met a division of jackson's corps, near bristoe station; after a sharp fight the confederate general, ewell, retired on manassas. pope now realized that he had jackson's corps in front of him at the junction, and at once took steps to attack manassas with all his forces. he drew off even the corps at gainesville for his intended battle of the 28th; mcdowell, however, its commander, on his own responsibility, left ricketts's division at thoroughfare gap. but pope's blow was struck in the air. when he arrived at manassas on the 28th he found nothing but the ruins of his magazines, and one of mcdowell's divisions (king's) marching from gainesville on manassas junction met jackson's infantry near groveton. the situation had again changed completely. jackson had no intention of awaiting pope at manassas, and after several feints made with a view to misleading the federal scouts he finally withdrew to a hidden position between groveton and sudley springs, to await the arrival of longstreet, who, taking the same route as jackson had done, arrived on the 28th at thoroughfare gap and, engaging ricketts's division, finally drove it back to gainesville. on the evening of this day jackson's corps held the line sudley springs-groveton, his right wing near groveton opposing king's division; and longstreet held thoroughfare gap, facing ricketts at gainesville. on ricketts's right was king near groveton, and the line was continued thence by mcdowell's remaining division and by sigel's corps to the stone bridge. at centreville, 7 m. away, was pope with three divisions, a fourth was north-east of manassas junction, and porter's corps at bristoe station. thus, while ricketts continued at gainesville to mask longstreet, pope could concentrate a superior force against jackson, whom he now believed to be meditating a retreat to the gap. but a series of misunderstandings resulted in the withdrawal of ricketts and king, so that nothing now intervened between longstreet and jackson; while sigel and mcdowell's other division alone remained to face jackson until such time as pope could bring up the rest of his scattered forces. jackson now closed on his left and prepared for battle, and on the morning of the 29th the confederates, posted behind a high railway embankment, repelled two sharp attacks made by sigel. pope arrived at noon with the divisions from centreville, which, led by the general himself and by reno and hooker, two of the bravest officers in the union army, made a third and most desperate attack on jackson's line. the latter, repulsing it with difficulty, carried its counter-stroke too far and was in turn repulsed by grover's brigade of hooker's division. grover then made a fourth assault, but was driven back with terrible loss. the last assault, gallantly delivered by two divisions under kearny and stevens, drove the confederate left out of its position; but a confederate counter-attack, led by the brave jubal early, dislodged the assailants with the bayonet. in the meanwhile events had taken place near groveton which were, for twenty years after the war, the subject of controversy and recrimination (see porter, fitz-john). when porter's and part of mcdowell's corps, acting on various orders sent by pope, approached gainesville from the south-east, longstreet had already reached that place, and the federals thus encountered a force of unknown strength at the moment when sigel's guns to the northward showed him to be closely engaged with jackson. the two generals consulted, and mcdowell marched off to join sigel, while porter remained to hold the new enemy in check. in this he succeeded; longstreet, though far superior in numbers, made no forward move, and his advanced guard alone came into action. on the night of the 29th lee reunited the wings of his army on the field of battle. he had forced pope back many miles from the rappahannock, and expecting that the federals would retire to the line of bull run before giving battle, he now decided to wait for the last divisions of longstreet's corps, which were still distant. but pope, still sanguine, ordered a \"general pursuit\" of jackson for the 30th. there was some ground for his suppositions, for jackson had retired a short distance and longstreet's advanced guard had also fallen back. mcdowell, however, who was in general charge of the federal right on the 30th, soon saw that jackson was not retreating and stopped the \"pursuit,\" and the attack on jackson's right, which pope had ordered porter to make, was repulsed by longstreet's overwhelming forces. then lee's whole line, 4 m. long, made its grand counter-stroke (4 p.m.). there was now no hesitation in longstreet's attack; the federal left was driven successively from every position it took up, and longstreet finally captured bald hill. jackson, though opposed by the greater part of pope's forces, advanced to the matthews hill, and his artillery threatened the stone bridge. the federals, driven back to the banks of bull run, were only saved by the gallant defence of the henry house hill by the pennsylvanian division of reynolds and the regulars [v.04 p.0793] under sykes. pope withdrew under cover of night to centreville. here he received fresh reinforcements, but jackson was already marching round his new right, and after the action of chantilly (1st of september) the whole federal army fell back to washington. the union forces present on the field on the 29th and 30th numbered about 63,000, the strength of lee's army being on the same dates about 54,000. besides their killed and wounded the federals lost very heavily in prisoners. bully (of uncertain origin, but possibly connected with a teutonic word seen in many compounds, as the low ger. _bullerjaan_, meaning \"noisy\"; the word has also, with less probability, been derived from the dutch _boel_, and ger. _buhle_, a lover), originally a fine, swaggering fellow, as in \"bully bottom\" in _a midsummer night's dream_, later an overbearing ruffian, especially a coward who abuses his strength by ill-treating the weak; more technically a _souteneur_, a man who lives on the earnings of a prostitute. the term in its early use of \"fine\" or \"splendid\" survives in american slang. bulow, bernhard ernst von (1815-1879), danish and german statesman, was the son of adolf von bulow, a danish official, and was born at cismar in holstein on the 2nd of august 1815. he studied law at the universities of berlin, gottingen and kiel, and began his political career in the service of denmark, in the chancery of schleswig-holstein-lauenburg at copenhagen, and afterwards in the foreign office. in 1842 he became councillor of legation, and in 1847 danish _charge d'affaires_ in the hanse towns, where his intercourse with the merchant princes led to his marriage in 1848 with a wealthy heiress, louise victorine rucker. when the insurrection broke out in the elbe duchies (1848) he left the danish service, and offered his services to the provisional government of kiel, an offer that was not accepted. in 1849, accordingly, he re-entered the service of denmark, was appointed a royal chamberlain and in 1850 sent to represent the duchies of schleswig and holstein at the restored federal diet of frankfort. here he came into intimate touch with bismarck, who admired his statesmanlike handling of the growing complications of the schleswig-holstein question. with the radical \"eider-dane\" party he was utterly out of sympathy; and when, in 1862, this party gained the upper hand, he was recalled from frankfort. he now entered the service of the grand-duke of mecklenburg-strelitz, and remained at the head of the grand-ducal government until 1867, when he became plenipotentiary for the two mecklenburg duchies in the council of the german confederation (bundesrat), where he distinguished himself by his successful defence of the medieval constitution of the duchies against liberal attacks. in 1873 bismarck, who was in thorough sympathy with his views, persuaded him to enter the service of prussia as secretary of state for foreign affairs, and from this time till his death he was the chancellor's most faithful henchman. in 1875 he was appointed prussian plenipotentiary in the bundesrat; in 1877 he became bismarck's lieutenant in the secretaryship for foreign affairs of the empire; and in 1878 he was, with bismarck and hohenlohe, prussian plenipotentiary at the congress of berlin. he died at frankfort on the 20th of october 1879, his end being hastened by his exertions in connexion with the political crisis of that year. of his six sons the eldest, bernhard heinrich karl (see below), became chancellor of the empire. see the biography of h. von petersdorff in _allgemeine deutsche biographie_, band 47, p. 350. bulow, bernhard heinrich karl martin, prince von (1849- ), german statesman, was born on the 3rd of may 1849, at klein-flottbeck, in holstein. the bulow family is one very widely extended in north germany, and many members have attained distinction in the civil and military service of prussia, denmark and mecklenburg. prince bulow's great-uncle, heinrich von bulow, who was distinguished for his admiration of england and english institutions, was prussian ambassador in england from 1827 to 1840, and married a daughter of wilhelm von humboldt (see the letters of gabrielle von bulow). his father, bernhard ernst von bulow, is separately noticed above. prince bulow must not be confused with his contemporary otto v. bulow (1827-1901), an official in the prussian foreign office, who in 1882 was appointed german envoy at bern, from 1892 to 1898 was prussian envoy to the vatican, and died at rome on the 22nd of november 1901. bernhard von bulow, after serving in the franco-prussian war, entered the prussian civil service, and was then transferred to the diplomatic service. in 1876 he was appointed attache to the german embassy in paris, and after returning for a while to the foreign office at berlin, became second secretary to the embassy in paris in 1880. from 1884 he was first secretary to the embassy at st petersburg, and acted as _charge d'affaires_; in 1888 he was appointed envoy at bucharest, and in 1893 to the post of german ambassador at rome. in 1897, on the retirement of baron marshall von bieberstein, he was appointed secretary of state for foreign affairs (the same office which his father had held) under prince hohenlohe, with a seat in the prussian ministry. the appointment caused much surprise at the time, as bulow was little known outside diplomatic circles. the explanations suggested were that he had made himself very popular at rome and that his appointment was therefore calculated to strengthen the loosening bonds of the triple alliance, and also that his early close association with bismarck would ensure the maintenance of the bismarckian tradition. as foreign secretary herr von bulow was chiefly responsible for carrying out the policy of colonial expansion with which the emperor had identified himself, and in 1899, on bringing to a successful conclusion the negotiations by which the caroline islands were acquired by germany, he was raised to the rank of count. on the resignation of hohenlohe in 1900 he was chosen to succeed him as chancellor of the empire and president of the prussian ministry. the _berliner neueste nachrichten_, commenting on this appointment, very aptly characterized the relations of the new chancellor to the emperor, in contrast to the position occupied by bismarck. \"the germany of william ii.,\" it said, \"does not admit a titan in the position of the highest official of the empire. a cautious and versatile diplomatist like bernhard von bulow appears to be best adapted to the personal and political necessities of the present situation.\" count bulow, indeed, though, like bismarck, a \"realist,\" utilitarian and opportunist in his policy, made no effort to emulate the masterful independence of the great chancellor. he was accused, indeed, of being little more than the complacent executor of the emperor's will, and defended himself in the reichstag against the charge. the substance of the relations between the emperor and himself, he declared, rested on mutual good-will, and added: \"i must lay it down most emphatically that the prerogative of the emperor's personal initiative must not be curtailed, and will not be curtailed, by any chancellor.... as regards the chancellor, however, i say that no imperial chancellor worthy of the name ... would take up any position which in his conscience he did not regard as justifiable.\" it is clear that the position of a chancellor holding these views in relation to a ruler so masterful and so impulsive as the emperor william ii. could be no easy one; and bulow's long continuance in office is the best proof of his genius. his first conspicuous act as chancellor was a masterly defence in the reichstag of german action in china, a defence which was, indeed, rendered easier by the fact that prince hohenlohe had--to use his own words--\"dug a canal\" for the flood of imperial ambition of which warning had been given in the famous \"mailed fist\" speech. such incidents as this, however, though they served to exhibit consummate tact and diplomatic skill, give little index to the fundamental character of his work as chancellor. of this it may be said, in general, that it carried on the best traditions of the prussian service in whole-hearted devotion to the interests of the state. the accusation that he was an \"agrarian\" he thought it necessary to rebut in a speech delivered on the 18th of february 1906 to the german handelstag. he was an agrarian, he declared, in so far as he came of a land-owning family, and was interested in the prosperity of agriculture; but as chancellor, whose function it is to watch over the welfare [v.04 p.0794] of all classes, he was equally concerned with the interests of commerce and industry (_kolnische zeitung_, feb. 20, 1906). some credit for the immense material expansion of germany under his chancellorship is certainly due to his zeal and self-devotion. this was generously recognized by the emperor in a letter publicly addressed to the chancellor on the 21st of may 1906, immediately after the passage of the finance bill. \"i am fully conscious,\" it ran, \"of the conspicuous share in the initiation and realization of this work of reform... which must be ascribed to the statesmanlike skill and self-sacrificing devotion with which you have conducted and promoted those arduous labours.\" rumours had from time to time been rife of a \"chancellor crisis\" and bulow's dismissal; in the _berliner tageblatt_ this letter was compared to the \"never!\" with which the emperor william i. had replied to bismarck's proffered resignation. on the 6th of june 1905 count bulow was raised to the rank of prince (_furst_), on the occasion of the marriage of the crown prince. the coincidence of this date with the fall of m. delcasse, the french minister for foreign affairs--a triumph for germany and a humiliation for france--was much commented on at the time (see _the times_, june 7, 1905); and the elevation of bismarck to the rank of prince in the hall of mirrors at versailles was recalled. whatever element of truth there may have been in this, however, the significance of the incident was much exaggerated. on the 5th of april 1906, while attending a debate in the reichstag, prince bulow was seized with illness, the result of overwork and an attack of influenza, and was carried unconscious from the hall. at first it was thought that the attack would be fatal, and lord fitzmaurice in the house of lords compared the incident with that of the death of chatham, a compliment much appreciated in germany. the illness, however, quickly took a favourable turn, and after a month's rest the chancellor was able to resume his duties. in 1907 prince bulow was made the subject of a disgraceful libel, which received more attention than it deserved because it coincided with the harden-moltke scandals; his character was, however, completely vindicated, and the libeller, a journalist named brand, received a term of imprisonment. the parliamentary skill of prince bulow in holding together the heterogeneous elements of which the government majority in the reichstag was composed, no less than the diplomatic tact with which he from time to time \"interpreted\" the imperial indiscretions to the world, was put to a rude test by the famous \"interview\" with the german emperor, published in the london _daily telegraph_ of the 28th of october 1908 (see william ii., german emperor), which aroused universal reprobation in germany. prince bulow assumed the official responsibility, and tendered his resignation to the emperor, which was not accepted; but the chancellor's explanation in the reichstag on the 10th of november showed how keenly he felt his position. he declared his conviction that the disastrous results of the interview would \"induce the emperor in future to observe that strict reserve, even in private conversations, which is equally indispensable in the interest of a uniform policy and for the authority of the crown,\" adding that, in the contrary case, neither he nor any successor of his could assume the responsibility (_the times_, nov. 11, 1908, p. 9). the attitude of the emperor showed that he had taken the lesson to heart. it was not the imperial indiscretions, but the effect of his budget proposals in breaking up the liberal-conservative _bloc_, on whose support he depended in the reichstag, that eventually drove prince bulow from office (see germany: _history_). at the emperor's request he remained to pilot the mutilated budget through the house; but on the 14th of july 1909 the acceptance of his resignation was announced. prince bulow married, on the 9th of january 1886, maria anna zoe rosalia beccadelli di bologna, princess camporeale, whose first marriage with count karl von donhoff had been dissolved and declared null by the holy see in 1884. the princess, an accomplished pianist and pupil of liszt, was a step-daughter of the italian statesman minghetti. see j. penzler, _graf bulows reden nebst urkundlichen beitragen zu seiner politik_ (leipzig, 1903). bulow, dietrich heinrich, freiherr von (1757-1807), prussian soldier and military writer, and brother of general count f.w. bulow, entered the prussian army in 1773. routine work proved distasteful to him, and he read with avidity the works of the chevalier folard and other theoretical writers on war, and of rousseau. after sixteen years' service he left prussia, and endeavoured without success to obtain a commission in the austrian army. he then returned to prussia, and for some time managed a theatrical company. the failure of this undertaking involved bulow in heavy losses, and soon afterwards he went to america, where he seems to have been converted to, and to have preached, swedenborgianism. on his return to europe he persuaded his brother to engage in a speculation for exporting glass to the united states, which proved a complete failure. after this for some years he made a precarious living in berlin by literary work, but his debts accumulated, and it was under great disadvantages that he produced his _geist des neueren kriegssystems_ (hamburg, 1799) and _der feldzug 1800_ (berlin, 1801). his hopes of military employment were again disappointed, and his brother, the future field marshal, who had stood by him in all his troubles, finally left him. after wandering in france and the smaller german states, he reappeared at berlin in 1804, where he wrote a revised edition of his _geist des neueren kriegssystems_ (hamburg, 1805), _lehrsatze des neueren kriegs_ (berlin, 1805), _geschichte des prinzen heinrich von preussen_ (berlin, 1805), _neue taktik der neuern wie sie sein sollte_ (leipzig, 1805), and _der feldzug 1805_ (leipzig, 1806). he also edited, with g.h. von behrenhorst (1733-1814) and others, _annalen des krieges_ (berlin, 1806). these brilliant but unorthodox works, distinguished by an open contempt of the prussian system, cosmopolitanism hardly to be distinguished from high treason, and the mordant sarcasm of a disappointed man, brought upon bulow the enmity of the official classes and of the government. he was arrested as insane, but medical examination proved him sane and he was then lodged as a prisoner in colberg, where he was harshly treated, though gneisenau obtained some mitigation of his condition. thence he passed into russian hands and died in prison at riga in 1807, probably as a result of ill-treatment. in bulow's writings there is evident a distinct contrast between the spirit of his strategical and that of his tactical ideas. as a strategist (he claimed to be the first of strategists) he reduces to mathematical rules the practice of the great generals of the 18th century, ignoring \"friction,\" and manoeuvring his armies _in vacuo_. at the same time he professes that his system provides working rules for the armies of his own day, which in point of fact were \"armed nations,\" infinitely more affected by \"friction\" than the small dynastic and professional armies of the preceding age. bulow may therefore be considered as anything but a reformer in the domain of strategy. with more justice he has been styled the \"father of modern tactics.\" he was the first to recognize that the conditions of swift and decisive war brought about by the french revolution involved wholly new tactics, and much of his teaching had a profound influence on european warfare of the 19th century. his early training had shown him merely the pedantic _minutiae_ of frederick's methods, and, in the absence of any troops capable of illustrating the real linear tactics, he became an enthusiastic supporter of the methods, which (more of necessity than from judgment) the french revolutionary generals had adopted, of fighting in small columns covered by skirmishers. battles, he maintained, were won by skirmishers. \"we must organize disorder,\" he said; indeed, every argument of writers of the modern \"extended order\" school is to be found _mutatis mutandis_ in bulow, whose system acquired great prominence in view of the mechanical improvements in armament. but his tactics, like his strategy, were vitiated by the absence of \"friction,\" and their dependence on the realization of an unattainable standard of bravery. see von voss, _h. von bulow_ (koln, 1806); p. von bulow, _familienbuch der v. bulow_ (berlin, 1859); ed. von bulow, _aus dem leben dietrichs v. bulow_, also _vermischte schriften aus dem nachlass von behrenhorst_ (1845); ed. von bulow and von rustow, _militarische und vermischte schriften von heinrich dietrich v. bulow_ (leipzig, 1853); memoirs by freiherr v. meerheimb in _allgemeine deutsche [v.04 p.0795] biographie_, vol. 3 (leipzig, 1876), and \"behrenhorst und bulow\" (_historische zeitschrift_, 1861, vi.); max jahns, _geschichte der kriegswissenschaften_, vol. iii. pp. 2133-2145 (munich, 1891); general von cammerer (transl. von donat), _development of strategical science_ (london, 1905), ch. i. bulow, friedrich wilhelm, freiherr von, count of dennewitz (1755-1816), prussian general, was born on the 16th of february 1755, at falkenberg in the altmark; he was the elder brother of the foregoing. he received an excellent education, and entered the prussian army in 1768, becoming ensign in 1772, and second lieutenant in 1775. he took part in the \"potato war\" of 1778, and subsequently devoted himself to the study of his profession and of the sciences and arts. he was throughout his life devoted to music, his great musical ability bringing him to the notice of frederick william ii., and about 1790 he was conspicuous in the most fashionable circles of berlin. he did not, however, neglect his military studies, and in 1792 he was made military instructor to the young prince louis ferdinand, becoming at the same time full captain. he took part in the campaigns of 1792-93-94 on the rhine, and received for signal courage during the siege of mainz the order _pour le merite_ and promotion to the rank of major. after this he went to garrison duty at soldau. in 1802 he married the daughter of colonel v. auer, and in the following year he became lieutenant-colonel, remaining at soldau with his corps. the vagaries and misfortunes of his brother dietrich affected his happiness as well as his fortune. the loss of two of his children was followed in 1806 by the death of his wife, and a further source of disappointment was the exclusion of his regiment from the field army sent against napoleon in 1806. the disasters of the campaign aroused his energies. he did excellent service under lestocq's command in the latter part of the war, was wounded in action, and finally designated for a brigade command in blucher's force. in 1808 he married the sister of his first wife, a girl of eighteen. he was made a major-general in the same year, and henceforward he devoted himself wholly to the regeneration of prussia. the intensity of his patriotism threw him into conflict even with blucher and led to his temporary retirement; in 1811, however, he was again employed. in the critical days preceding the war of liberation he kept his troops in hand without committing himself to any irrevocable step until the decision was made. on the 14th of march 1813 he was made a lieutenant-general. he fought against oudinot in defence of berlin (see napoleonic campaigns), and in the summer came under the command of bernadotte, crown prince of sweden. at the head of an army corps bulow distinguished himself very greatly in the battle of gross beeren, a victory which was attributed almost entirely to his leadership. a little later he won the great victory of dennewitz, which for the third time checked napoleon's advance on berlin. this inspired the greatest enthusiasm in prussia, as being won by purely prussian forces, and rendered bulow's popularity almost equal to that of blucher. bulow's corps played a conspicuous part in the final overthrow of napoleon at leipzig, and he was then entrusted with the task of evicting the french from holland and belgium. in an almost uniformly successful campaign he won a signal victory at hoogstraaten, and in the campaign of 1814 he invaded france from the north-west, joined blucher, and took part in the brilliant victory of laon in march. he was now made general of infantry and received the title of count bulow von dennewitz. in the short peace of 1814-1815 he was at konigsberg as commander-in-chief in prussia proper. he was soon called to the field again, and in the waterloo campaign commanded the iv. corps of blucher's army. he was not present at ligny, but his corps headed the flank attack upon napoleon at waterloo, and bore the heaviest part in the fighting of the prussian troops. he took part in the invasion of france, but died suddenly on the 25th of february 1816, a month after his return to the konigsberg command. see _general graf bulow von dennewitz, 1813-1814_ (leipzig, 1843); varnhagen von ense, _leben des g. grafen b. von d._ (berlin, 1854). bulow, hans guido von (1830-1894), german pianist and conductor, was born at dresden, on the 8th of january 1830. at the age of nine he began to study music under friedrich wieck as part of a genteel education. it was only after an illness while studying law at leipzig university in 1848 that he determined upon music as a career. at this time he was a pupil of moritz hauptmann. in 1849 revolutionary politics took possession of him. in the berlin _abendpost_, a democratic journal, the young aristocrat poured forth his opinions, which were strongly coloured by wagner's _art and revolution_. wagner's influence was musical no less than political, for a performance of _lohengrin_ under liszt at weimar in 1850 completed von bulow's determination to abandon a legal career. from weimar he went to zurich, where the exile wagner instructed him in the elements of conducting. but he soon returned to weimar and liszt; and in 1853 he made his first concert tour, which extended from vienna to berlin. next he became principal professor of the piano at the stern academy, and married in his 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