Charles Joseph de Croix Quotes
Never has a revolution been so rapid. Six days have been sufficient to give the enemy possession of all the Dutch provinces.
“The enemy were the Dutch revolutionists and the French who had sent a small army to assist the Dutch rebels. The Count had his Castle right near the border of Holland in the Austrian controlled part of the Netherlands.
Charles Joseph de Croix, 1733-1798, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal, Observation on the Dutch Revolution of 1795
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China, after overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty was struggling among many factions for control of the government.
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 soon fought in the Seven Years' War. Later in his military career, he led Austrian troops in the war against Ottoman Turkey. During the French Revolutionary Wars he saw extensive fighting and rose to the rank of Field Marshal.
