Kammala wannan jumla: A ranar 7 ga Yuli 1756 an daukaka shi zuwa Manjo kuma, a 1758, kwamandan rundunar, wanda yanzu ake kira "Thadden zu Fuss". A cikin Yakin Shekaru Bakwai, ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙin Gross-Jägersdorf da Yaƙin Zorndorf (1758). A shekara ta 1759 ya yi yaƙi da Pomerania da Mecklenburg, 1761 a Saxony da Silesia, kuma, a 1762, a Silesia. A ranar 21 ga Yuli ya jagoranci ƙungiyoyi biyu a cikin hare-haren Leutmannsdorf Hill a lokacin yakin basasa.
Yaƙin Burkersdorf kuma an ba shi lada don wannan ƙarfin hali tare da Order Pour le Mérite.