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SOUBISE, BENJAMIN DE ROHAN

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SOUBISE, See also:BENJAMIN DE See also:ROHAN , Duc DE (? 1589—1642), Huguenot See also:leader, younger See also:brother of See also:Henri de Rohan, inherited his See also:title through his See also:mother See also:Catherine de See also:Parthenay. He served his See also:apprenticeship as a soldier under See also:Prince See also:Maurice of See also:Orange-See also:Nassau in the See also:Low Countries. In the religious See also:wars from 1621 onwards his See also:elder brother chiefly commanded on See also:land and in the See also:south, Soubise in the See also:west and along the See also:sea-See also:coast. His exploits in the conflict have been sympathetically related by his brother, who, if he was not quite an impartial See also:witness, was one of the best military critics of the See also:time. Soubise's See also:chief exploit was a singularly bold and well-conducted attack (in 1625) on the Royalist See also:fleet in the See also:river Blavet (which included the cutting of a See also:boom in the See also:face of See also:superior See also:numbers) and the occupation of See also:Oleron. He commanded at Rochelle during the famous See also:siege, and (if we may believe his brother) the failure of the See also:defence and of the See also:English attack on Rhe was mainly due to the alternate obstinacy of the townsfolk and the English commanders in refusing tolisten to Soubise's See also:advice. When surrender became inevitable he fled to See also:England, which he had previously visited in quest of succour. He died in 1642 in See also:London. The Soubise title after-wards served as the chief second designation (not for heirs apparent, but for the chief See also:collateral See also:branch for the time being) of the See also:house of Rohan-See also:Chabot. The name Soubise appears again in the military See also:history of See also:France in the See also:person of See also:CHARLES DE ROHAN, PRINCE DE SOUBISE (1715—1787), peer and See also:marshal of France, the See also:grandson of the princesse de Soubise, who is known to history as one of t'ie distresses of See also:Louis XIV. He accompanied Louis XV. in the See also:campaign of 1744—48 and attained high military See also:rank, which he owed more to his courtiership than to his generalship.

Soon after the beginning of the Seven Years' See also:

War, through the See also:influence of Mme de See also:Pompadour, he was put in command of a See also:corps of 24,000 men, and in See also:November 1757 he sustained the crushing defeat of See also:Rossbach. He was more fortunate, however, in his later military career, and continued in the service until the See also:general See also:peace of 1763, after which he lived the See also:life of an See also:ordinary courtier and See also:man of See also:fashion in See also:Paris, dying on the 4th of See also:July 1787.

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