biography
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Turenne, Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de (Viscount of)
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pronunciation:
[türen]
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| lived:
| (1611–75)
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| biography:
| French marshal, born in Sedan, France, son of the Protestant Duc de Bouillon, and grandson of William I (the Silent). He learned soldiering from his uncles, the Princes of Orange, and in the Thirty Years' War fought with distinction for the armies of the Protestant alliance. He captured Breisach (1638) and Turin (1640), and for the conquest of Roussillon from the Spaniards (1642) was made Marshal of France (1643). In the civil wars of the Frondes, he joined the frondeurs at first, but then switched sides; his campaigning (1652–3) saved the young King Louis XIV and Mazarin's government. In the Franco-Spanish war he conquered much of the Spanish Netherlands after defeating Condé at the Battle of the Dunes (1658). He won lasting fame for his campaigns in the United Provinces during the Dutch War (1672–5), but advancing along the Rhine he was killed at Sasbach. |
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