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TURENNE.
Henry de la Tour d’Auvergne, Viscount Tu-
renne, the second son of Henry, Duke de Bouillon, and
one of the greatest generals of modern times, was born
at Sedan, in 1611. His taste for arms developed it-
self at an early age. He was only ten years old, when,
incensed at hearing that the delicacy of his constitu-
tion would prevent him from enduring the fatigues of
war, he resolved to pass a winter’s night on the ram-
parts of Sedan ; he was found asleep upon the car-
riage of a gun. Turenne entered the army under the
auspices of his maternal uncle, the celebrated Maurice
of Nassau. At nineteen he returned to serve in his
native country, was appointed a field marshal at
twenty-three, and a marshal of France at thirty-two*
He had then made seventeen campaigns under differ-
ent generals, in which he eminently signalized him-
self. Mazarin entrusted him with the command of the
army of Germany. It was in want of every thing; he
soon put it in a state for action. Surprised and beaten
at Mariendal, he took his revenge at Nordlingen, re-
established the elector of Traves, effected the famous
junction with Wrangel, the Swedish general, defeated
the elector of Bavaria, and drove him from his do-
minions in 1648. These brilliant operations hastened
the termination of the negociations at Munster. The
troubles of the Fronde had just broken out in France.
Turenne, led away by his brother, the Duke de Bouil-
lon, and in a particular manner by his passion for Ma-
Henry de la Tour d’Auvergne, Viscount Tu-
renne, the second son of Henry, Duke de Bouillon, and
one of the greatest generals of modern times, was born
at Sedan, in 1611. His taste for arms developed it-
self at an early age. He was only ten years old, when,
incensed at hearing that the delicacy of his constitu-
tion would prevent him from enduring the fatigues of
war, he resolved to pass a winter’s night on the ram-
parts of Sedan ; he was found asleep upon the car-
riage of a gun. Turenne entered the army under the
auspices of his maternal uncle, the celebrated Maurice
of Nassau. At nineteen he returned to serve in his
native country, was appointed a field marshal at
twenty-three, and a marshal of France at thirty-two*
He had then made seventeen campaigns under differ-
ent generals, in which he eminently signalized him-
self. Mazarin entrusted him with the command of the
army of Germany. It was in want of every thing; he
soon put it in a state for action. Surprised and beaten
at Mariendal, he took his revenge at Nordlingen, re-
established the elector of Traves, effected the famous
junction with Wrangel, the Swedish general, defeated
the elector of Bavaria, and drove him from his do-
minions in 1648. These brilliant operations hastened
the termination of the negociations at Munster. The
troubles of the Fronde had just broken out in France.
Turenne, led away by his brother, the Duke de Bouil-
lon, and in a particular manner by his passion for Ma-