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What military conflicts did Prussian General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst encounter with Napoleon I?

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He fought in the disastrous war (1806-7) against Napoleon I, headed the commission for reorganizing the army, and controlled the war ministry from 1807. He resigned his posts early in 1812, when Prussia was forced into an alliance with Napoleon I against Russia.

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