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Maurice de Saxe

1696 - 1750

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Maurice, Count of Saxony (German: Hermann Moritz von Sachsen, French: Maurice, comte de Saxe; 28 October 1696 – 20 November 1750) was a notable soldier, officer and a famed military commander of the 18th century. The illegitimate son of Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony, he initially served in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, then the Imperial Army, before finally entering French service. De Saxe became a Marshal and even Marshal General of France. He is best known for his deeds in the War of the Austrian Succession and especially for his decisive victory at the Battle of Fontenoy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice de Saxe is the 176th most popular military personnel (up from 286th in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from Germany (up from 663rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Military Personnel.

Maurice de Saxe was a French military commander who is most famous for his role in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maurice de Saxe ranks 176 out of 2,058. Before him are Antipater, George Armstrong Custer, Anton Denikin, Louis, Grand Condé, Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, and Semyon Budyonny. After him are Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Pittacus of Mytilene, Giovanni Giustiniani, Józef Poniatowski, Michiel de Ruyter, and Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, Maurice de Saxe ranks 5. Before him are Mahmud I, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Augustus III of Poland, and Alphonsus Liguori. After him are Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Shah Jahan II, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, James Oglethorpe, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, and Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Among people deceased in 1750, Maurice de Saxe ranks 3. Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach, and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are John V of Portugal, Emperor Sakuramachi, Rachel Ruysch, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Vasily Tatishchev, Giuseppe Sammartini, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Apostolo Zeno, and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maurice de Saxe ranks 455 out of 7,253. Before him are Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (1660), Traudl Junge (1920), Theodor Schwann (1810), Peter Behrens (1868), Polykarp Kusch (1911), and Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845). After him are Werner Herzog (1942), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), and Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Maurice de Saxe ranks 37. Before him are August von Mackensen (1849), Franz Halder (1884), Helmuth Weidling (1891), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Michael Wittmann (1914), and Hans Krebs (1898). After him are Ernst Busch (1885), Joachim Peiper (1915), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Paul Hausser (1880), Georg von Küchler (1881), and Alfred von Schlieffen (1833).

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