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FEUQUIIRES, See also:ISAAC MANASSLS DE PAS, See also:MARQUIS DE (1590-1640) , See also:French soldier, came of a distinguished See also:family of which many members held high command in the See also:civil See also:wars of the 16th See also:century. He entered the Royal See also:army at the See also:age of See also:thirty, and soon achieved distinction. In 1626 he served in the Valtelline, and in 1628–1629 at the celebrated See also:siege of La Rochelle, where he was taken prisoner. In 1629 he was made Marechal de See also:Camp, and served in the fighting on the See also:southern frontiers of See also:France. After occupying various military positions in See also:Lorraine, he was sent as an See also:ambassador into See also:Germany, where he rendered important services in negotiations with See also:Wallenstein. In 1636 he commanded the French See also:corps operating with the See also:duke of See also:Weimar's forces (afterwards See also:Turenne's " Army of Weimar "). With these troops he served in the See also:campaigns of 1637 (in which he became See also:lieutenant-See also:general), 1638 and 1639. At the siege of Thionville (See also:Diedenhofen) he received a mortal See also:wound. His lettres inedites appeared (ed. Gallois) in See also:Paris in 1845. His son See also:ANTOINE See also:MANASSES DE PAS, Marquis de Feuquieres (1648–1711), was See also:born at Paris in 1648, and entered the army at the age of eighteen. His conduct at the siege of See also:Lille in 1667, where he was wounded, won him promotion to the See also:rank of See also:captain.

In the campaigns of 1672 and 1673 he served on the See also:

staff of See also:Marshal See also:Luxemburg, and at the siege of Oudenarde in the following See also:year the See also:king gave him command of the Royal Marine See also:regiment, which he held until he obtained a regiment of his own in 1676. In 1688 he served as a brigadier at the siege of Philipsburg, and afterwards led a ravaging expedition into See also:south Germany, where he acquired much See also:booty. Promoted Marechal de Camp, he served under See also:Catinat against the Waldenses, and in the course of the See also:war won the See also:nickname of the " Wizard." In 1692 he made a brilliant See also:defence of Speierbach against greatly See also:superior forces, and was rewarded with the rank of lieutenant-general. He See also:bore a distinguished See also:part in Luxemburg's See also:great victory of See also:Neerwinden or See also:Landen in 1693. Marshal See also:Villeroi impressed him less favourably than his old See also:commander Luxemburg, and the resumption of war in 1701 found him in disfavour in consequence. The See also:rest of his See also:life, embittered bythe refusal of the marshal's See also:baton, he spent in compiling his celebrated See also:memoirs, which, coloured as they were by the See also:personal animosities of the writer, were yet considered by See also:Frederick the Great and the soldiers of the 18th century as the See also:standard See also:work on the See also:art of war as a whole. He died in 1711. The Memoires sur la guerre appeared in the same year and new See also:editions were frequently published (Paris 1711, 1725, 1735, &c., See also:London 1736, See also:Amsterdam subsequently). An See also:English version appeared in London 1737, under the See also:title Memoirs of the Marquis de Feuquieres, and a See also:German See also:translation (Feuquieres geheime Nachrichten) at See also:Leipzig 1732, 1738, and See also:Berlin 1786. They See also:deal in detail with every See also:branch of the art of war and of military service.

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