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    François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt (14 October 1733 – 21 July 1798), a Walloon, joined the army of the Habsburg monarchy and...
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    two days of combat Jourdan's troops compelled the Habsburg covering force led by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt to withdraw...
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    defeat a Habsburg army under François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt which was defending the line of the Roer River. A key crossing...
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    overall leadership of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt. In their initial advance, the French began the siege of Menin and captured...
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  • Battle of Höchst (11–12 October 1795), the Habsburg Austrian army commanded by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt outmaneuvered...
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    Handshuhsheim. Afterward, the Austrian commander François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt turned on Jourdan's army, driving it back across...
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    fended off three relief attempts by the corps of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt. Meanwhile, the French besiegers led by Jean...
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    commanded by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt. The battle was fought as part of French efforts to defeat an Allied attempt...
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    lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1798) October 14 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Neerwinden (1793)
    37 Dragoon Regiments. François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt led 11 battalions and 14 squadrons of the Reserve, with József Alvinczi...
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  • October 14 (redirect from 14th of October)
    1733 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798) 1784 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833) 1791 – Friedrich...
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    Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, defeated two Republican French armies attempting to invade the south German states of the Holy Roman...
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    000 Prussians was supported on his right by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt with 15,000 Austrians and on his left by Friedrich...
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    and conferred with the temporary commander François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt at Mehadia soon afterward. On 28 August the...
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    Walloons (category History of Wallonia)
    Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). pp. 172–173. "Clerfayt, François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed...
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  • July 21 (redirect from 21st of July)
    Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1759) 1798 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733) 1798 – Anthony...
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    of Sambre-and-Meuse under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and the left wing of an Austrian army under the François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix,...
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  • Thumbnail for Action at Mannheim (1795)
    Habsburg armies under the overall command of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, thwarted an attempt by two French armies to...
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    Battle of Mainz (29 October 1795) saw a Habsburg Austrian army led by Field Marshall François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt launch...
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    columns with a combined strength of 16,000 men under François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt and Colloredo to start from Hérin...
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  • Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt defeated an attempt by two Republican French armies to cross the Rhine River and capture the Fortress of Mainz...
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    François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt lay siege to a Republican French garrison commanded by François Goullus. After two and a half...
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    Éloi Laurent Despeaux (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    driving back a Coalition corps led by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt. On 13 June Clerfayt launched a surprise attack on Despeaux's...
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  • Feldzeugmeister François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt Boros' Brigade, commanded by Generalmajor Adam Boros de Rákos 1/2, Coburg...
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    total of 16,000 soldiers started from Hérin. Wenzel Joseph von Colloredo's center column and François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt's...
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  • of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1769–1824) 1794 – Olivier Remigius, Count of Wallis (1742–1799) 1795 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix,...
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  • of Pfeddersheim or Battle of the Pfrimm (10 November 1795) saw a Habsburg Austrian army led by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt...
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  • Georg Wilhelm von dem Bussche (category German military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
    near Lille. Finally, 19,600 soldiers under François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt would move down from the north, cross the Lys...
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    of 1795 (April 1795 to January 1796) opened when two Habsburg Austrian armies under the overall command of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix...
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    was led by Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt and deployed from Nieuport to Denain...
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