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He was the teacher of Frederick the Great and the only one among the seven great strategists of all time whose campaigns Napoleon considered worthy of study by posterity.
Life.
Eugène was the youngest son of the Comte de Soissons, of the House of Savoy-Carignan, and of Olympia Mancini, a niece of Cardinal Mazarin.
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Sybel, Heinrich von, Prinz Eugen von Savoyen (german) v.1, 23.12.2025
Louis, in any event, was ashamed of this unprepossessing supposed offspring of his. Aside from the enormous, in fact uncanny, talent with which he led the Emperor's armies to victory, Eugène had a weakness for comic ruses. Through the victories of Zenta, Peterwardein, and Belgrade, he once and for all secured Hungary from the Turks; together with the Duke of Marlborough, his great friend, he won Bavaria and all of Germany at Blenheim; at Turin he gained northern Italy; at Oudenaarde and Malplaquet, the Netherlands.
He was wounded 13 times. Even as he faced a world of foes before him, he had a world of enemies at his back, nourished by the “hereditary curse? But he remained in position and, in a terrible battle that began in a thick fog in the dead of night, annihilated the relief army once the fog lifted at daylight. His paternal ancestors were the dukes of Savoy, who later became kings of Sardinia, Sicily, and eventually of all Italy, while on his mother's side the family included not only Roman patricians but also hatters, valets, and humble artisans.
In order to take the city, he had deployed his forces in a position that was both daring and dangerous. of Austria: slothful souls and thoughtless minds, low intrigue, envy, jealousy, foolishness, and dishonesty. At the siege of Philippsburg, for example, he intended to change the course of the Rhine so that it would flow through the French camp, an idea that caused him to laugh uproariously; at Belgrade, he had the Austrian flotilla, which had lain at anchor above the city, move through various canals so that it suddenly appeared below the city.
Furthermore, Eugène's soldiers wereè being decimated by disease. Nothing could now retard this young genius on his way to world fame. Posterity has endeavoured to add to his military glory the reputation of scientific, artistic, and literary interests. Jahrhunderts. Er war Schüler Leopold von Rankes und gilt als Mitbegründer der modernen Geschichtswissenschaft.
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Prince Eugène of Savoy |
born Oct.
18, 1663, Paris
died April 24, 1736, Vienna
French in full François-eugène, Prince De Savoie-carignan, German Franz Eugen, Prinz Von Savoyen-carignan
field marshal and statesman of the Carignan line of the House of Savoy, who, in the service of the Austrian Holy Roman emperor, made his name as one of the greatest soldiers of his generation.
Capturing innumerable prisoners and the entire Turkish encampment, Eugène took the city shortly afterward.
Works.
Worn out by the exertions of an active career, Eugène died in 1736. Regarding his interest in architecture and painting, it may be said that, although he commissioned great artists to build and beautify his palaces, he involved himself in these matters no more than was expected of any great lord of his time.
It was to no avail that others implored him again and again to withdraw the troops in order not to give the Turkish army—which was intent on raising the siege and which surrounded Eugène's forces with a superiority of four to one—the chance to undo them all. 2 (1934).
Alexander Marie Norbert Lernet-Holenia
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And yet there was something still greater and rarer than his generalship in 24 battles: his wisdom in regarding military victory as a mere instrument for achieving political ends.He fought seven battles of major historical significance. But, although he is known to have corresponded with the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, his literary interests cannot have been overwhelming, because not one of the tens of thousands of volumes in his library (most of them preserved in the Nationalbibliothek in Vienna) bears any trace of having been much used, and they give the appearance of having been opened hardly at all in the more than 200 years since Eugène neglected to read them.