Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ya fara aikin soja a 1746, yana shiga cikin Yaƙin Shekaru Bakwai (1756<unk>1763). Ya kasance kwamandan runduna a yakin Zorndorf
Ka yi haƙuri. Rukunin nasa ya rasa jami'ai 60 da kusan rabin sojoji amma bai ja da baya ba. Sarauniya Elizabeth ta Rasha ta daukaka shi zuwa Colonel Rank. Ya kuma shiga cikin yakin Kunersdorf kuma daga baya aka nada shi kwamandan soji na Frankfurt.