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Montecuccoli, Raimund

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Montecuccoli, Raimund (1609–1680)

Italian-born Austrian general. He fought in the Thirty Years' War, against the Swedes in 1657 and against the Turks who had invaded Transylvania 1660–64. In command of the imperial army sent to support the Dutch against the French in 1672, he opposed the vicomte de Turenne on the banks of the Rhine 1672–75. The Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I made him a prince of the Empire.

He was an important military theorist and the effective creator of the Austrian standing army.



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