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    Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 1611 – 27 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne [ty.ʁɛn], was a French general and one of...
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    Vie politique du maréchal Soult (Paris, 1834) A. de Grozelier, Le Maréchal Soult (Castres, 1851) A. Combes, Histoire anecdotique du maréchal Soult (Castres...
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  • in 1775) Régiment de Maréchal de Turenne Régiment de Dauphiné Régiment de Isle de France Régiment de Soissonnais Régiment de Limousin Régiment Royal Vaisseaux...
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    diplomat, generally known for the best part of his life as the Maréchal (Marshal) du Plessis-Praslin. A member of the illustrious House of Choiseul,...
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    showered him with gifts and titles and hired the best tutors for him. The maréchal du Luxembourg, a famous military strategist, was put in charge of the child's...
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     540. ISBN 978-1-57958-246-3. Hans Storck (26 July 2014). "Le tombeau du Maréchal de Saxe". Le Rouge & le Noir.  This article incorporates text from a publication...
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    field to mestre de camp (colonel) of a cavalry regiment. The next promotion would take time in spite of a long record of service under Turenne, The Great Condé...
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    of France" (Maréchal général de France): Duke de Biron, Duke de Lesdiguières, Viscount de Turenne, de Villars, Count de Saxe and Jean-de-Dieu Soult. Although...
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    marched on the Champs Élysées. As he passed, the crowd began to chant, "Maréchal! Maréchal!" It demanded for him to be elevated to the marshalate as Joffre,...
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    himself at the siege of Orbetello, where he had an arm broken, he was made maréchal de camp. In the 17th century, warfare ceased during the winter months, and...
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  • Mestre de camp and that of Maréchal de camp. The rank was first created in the cavalry at the instigation of Marshal Turenne on June 8, 1657, then in the...
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    Turenne in Limousin, and claiming to date back to the 11th century. The family did not obtain fame until the 16th century, when its head, Antoine de Noailles...
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    Philippe Henri de (1782). Histoire des quatre dernières campagnes du maréchal de Turenne [History of the Four last Campaigns of Marshal de Turenne] (in French)...
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    Philippe-Henri, comte de (1782). Histoire Des Quatre Dernieres Campagnes Du Maréchal de Turenne en 1672, 1673, 1674, 1675. De Baurain. p. 129. Retrieved...
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  • Emmanuel de Valois, duc d'Angoulême 1653–1657 : Louis de Lorraine, duc de Joyeuse 1657–1675 : Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne-Bouillon, vicomte de Turenne 1675–1705 :...
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    Volume III. p. 216. "Turenne 1611-1675". Musée virtuel du Protestantisme. Retrieved 5 October 2018. Offen, Lee. "Dumbarton's had Regiment". Historyreconsidered...
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    1788, he was appointed colonel attached to the Maréchal de Turenne regiment. In January 1789, Gaston de Lévis was appointed Grand Sword Bailiff of the...
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    to five regiments of the same branch (brigade de cavalerie, brigade d'infanterie etc.). The rank, intermediate between colonel and maréchal de camp, disappeared...
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    John Joseph of Austria and the French troops under Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, in the outskirts of the city of Valenciennes in the Spanish...
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    Clérac (from July to August as maréchal de camp), Royan, and Montauban (from October to November 1621). He was maréchal de camp in the Army commanded by...
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    Upper and Lower Regions and the Province of Auvergne, Commander of the Turenne Regiment," then goes on to explain the reasons justifying his translation work:...
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  • Irish army. In France he fought in the Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678) under Turenne and in the War of the Reunions (1683–1684) at the Siege of Luxembourg....
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    Madeleine de Guénégaud, daughter of Gabriel de Guénégaud, seigneur du Plessis-Belleville, a Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi. With Turenne's support...
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    1675, he was employed in Lorraine under the Marquis de Rochefort. He was definitively made maréchal de camp by patent of April 2, 1675. He moved to the Flanders...
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    Antoine Hamilton (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1675 Hamilton's regiment was at Sasbach, where George witnessed Turenne's death. At the retreat from Sasbach in August, the regiment suffered 450 casualties...
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    Maxime Weygand (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    gave him time to write two books, biographies of French marshals Foch and Turenne. The opening of the question of succession as chief of the general staff...
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    Bastille (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Paris to prevent the advance of the royalist forces under the command of Turenne. Condé's forces became trapped against the city walls and the Porte Saint-Antoine...
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    Turenne expelled two Irish regiments in the pay of the Spanish who were garrisoning Cassel. The French captured the town in July 1676 under Louis de Crevant...
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    Siege of Condé (1793) (category Military history of Hauts-de-France)
    and Royal Allemand Cavalry Regiments. The French garrison was commanded by Maréchal de Camp (General of Brigade) Jean Nestor de Chancel. The 4,300 defending...
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    the Catholic religion. In 1671 Hamilton recruited a regiment in Ireland and served under Turenne and then under his successors, first Condé and then Luxembourg...
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