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Biography: Charles von Leevow[/center]


Born in 1841, Charles von Leevow grew up in the Millean village of Gavireaux, thirty miles north of the Millean capital Kormont. The third of five children, his father was a cavalry officer in the Millean Regimental Cavalry and his mother a nun at the Great Monarchist Church in Gavireaux. His great-grandfather Anton von Leevow (1738–1827) had received the nobiliary particle von Leevow as a predicate in 1815, referring to the surname of his first wife who descended from the Sessauan Rivertine region. His father Josephe von Leevow (1793–1878) was a retired colonel of artillery, originally from southern Mille, who had fought in the Battle of Kassau and took part in the suppression of the Kormont Uprising of 1851, whereby he was severely wounded.

Charles married Stephane le Seau (1860–1905) in 1886, with whom he had four sons. He would later marry Virginia von Reininghaus in 1903, against the wishes of his children.

Charles joined the cadet corps of the Cellier Army garrison and was educated at the Lajoie Military Academy in Lajoie Province, where he developed a strong interest in natural science, especially in the [i]Great Theory of Evolution[/i]. In 1861, at age 19 he received a commission as lieutenant in an infantry battalion. After graduating from the Aville Miitary Academy in 1876, he transferred to the General Staff Corps of the Mille-Sessauan Army.

In 1881, he was awarded a commission in the Mille-Sessauan Army 

In 1878–1879, upon the [i]Treaty of Kilso[/i], new political duties brought him to the Region of Minor Etellia, when those Etellian provinces were assigned to the military administration of Mille-Sessau. He was also a member of the staff in the rank of a Lieutenant during the 1882 insurrection in the Sessauan Kingdom of Feckland. In 1886 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 51st Infantry Division at Froix, where he showed great ability in reforming field exercise. Elevated to the rank of a Major, in the fall of 1888, he began a new appointment as a professor of military tactics in the Imperial Army in Aville, a position he prepared for by touring the battlefields of the Mille-Sessauan Unification War. Charles proved to be a good teacher quite popular among his students.

During the summer of 1904, he was awarded a commission of II Army Corps of the 5th Army on the Deltoran border, much to the chagrin of Charles, who preferred the colder climates of Sessau than the frozen Millean plains.

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[i]General Charles von Leevow, circa 1905[/i][/center]