biography
pronunciation:
[mah(r)teenay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–1672)
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| biography:
| French army officer. He won renown as a military engineer and tactician, devising forms of battle manoeuvre, pontoon bridges, and a type of copper assault boat used in Louis XIV's Dutch campaign. He became notorious for his stringent and brutal forms of discipline, and this led to the common use of the word martinet. He was killed by his troops at the siege of Duisberg. |
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