Imperial Service
After recovering from his illness George Augustus spent some time studying at the University of Leiden before being invited to enter into the service of the Queen-Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. He accepted the offer and was made a Lieutenant-Colonel. He was promoted to rank of Colonel after a fellow officer complained to Empress Maria Theresa that Duke George Augustus associated with socially inferior officers and that he had forgot that he was a German prince. The Empress who was only concerned if George Augustus had forgotten that he was Lieutenant-Colonel in her service, responded by promoting him to the rank of Colonel after the complaining officer admitted he was a good officer as she was only interested that he did his duty as an officer in her service.
He continued his rise up the ranks and a short while after being made a colonel he was made general of horse and was decorated with various honours. In 1780 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General and was appointed inspector of two carabinier regiments. He won the praise of Austrian Field Marshal Baron Ernst Gideon von Laudon in 1782 after carrying out Army manoeuvres in Prague with 50,000 infantry and cavalry soldiers.
Duke George Augustus never married and died in Tyrnau in the Kingdom of Hungary at the age of 37.
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