EUGENE, FRANÇOIS, PRINCE OF SAVOY

EUGENE, FRANÇOIS, PRINCE OF SAVOY
   a renowned general, born at Paris, and related by his mother to Cardinal Mazarin; he renounced his native land, and entered the service of the Austrian Emperor Leopold; first gained distinction against the Turks, whose power in Hungary he crushed in the great victory of Pieterwardein (1697); co-operated with Marlborough in the war of the Spanish Succession, and shared the glories of his great victories, and again opposed the French in the cause of Poland (1663-1736).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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