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Regiment Carignan "on virgilio

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Raymond Montecuccoli

born in a family castle in Pavullo Modena February 21, 1609. His father Earl Gaelotto, lord of Este, married Anna Bigi their court lady. In 1616 his father was driven to the square of Brescello (Reggio Emilia). In 1619, when his father died, he was received by Cardinal Alessandro d'Este in the bishopric of Reggio to be launched to an ecclesiastical career. His vocation not pushing in that direction and at the first opportunity (1624) joins with Rambaldo Collalto direct in Austria. In 1629 he became bishop and began the steps of a military career. His fame does not take long to spread the empire. Fighting in the Thirty Years' War, in the countryside of Poland, etc. .. In 1643 is borrowed from his old masters, the Este family, Pope Urban VIII to beat in Nonantola July 20. During this period he also spoke of an alleged relationship with the Queen Christina of Sweden who abdicated to convert to Catholicism. Supreme Commander thereafter struck, as was said, by the Turkish Vizier to exclaim, "I had come to fight a man, not a demon." It was July 1664; with insufficient troops were trying to hold in check the 100,000 men of the Grand Vizier. Keeping beyond the Raab (river) was waiting with his 30,000 men promised reinforcements. And they came. 8,300 German and 5,400 French were with Carignan Regiment of Savoy. The Vizier who had left the fortress in the middle of the men were now within the reach of Montecuccoli. Vienna was saved. He had meanwhile married to Princess Margarethe Von Dietrichstein of Liechtenstein, younger than him, they had three daughters and a son. In the Rhine campaign of 1675 against the French of Louis XIV, took the field against the Marshal Turenne, at the time considered the greatest leader. They had the worst, partly because he died in battle. An old man left the command to the Duke Charles of Lorraine another great leader. To him and Eugene of Savoy touch Twenty years after stopping the Turks again. Writer in various branches of literature was distinguished for his studies of military engineering, and his memoirs, then translated by Foscolo. He died 16 October 1680, aged 71, in Linz where refugees to escape a plague. The cause of death is attributed to a possible bowel cancer which he suffered for some time. The body, freed from the viscera are buried in the Capuchin Church in Linz, is embalmed and buried in the church of the Nine Angelic Choirs in Vienna. All the imperial court followed the coffin of its greatest leaders.

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