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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 305 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARQUIS DE ISAAC MANASSLS DE PAS FEUQUIIRES (1590-1640)  , French soldier, came of a distinguished
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family of which many members held high command in the
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civil
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wars of the 16th century . He entered the Royal army at the age of
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thirty, and soon achieved distinction . In 1626 he served in the Valtelline, and in 1628–1629 at the celebrated siege of La Rochelle, where he was taken prisoner . In 1629 he was made Marechal de Camp, and served in the fighting on the
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southern frontiers of France . After occupying various military positions in
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Lorraine, he was sent as an ambassador into Germany, where he rendered important services in negotiations with Wallenstein . In 1636 he commanded the French corps operating with the duke of
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Weimar's forces (afterwards Turenne's " Army of Weimar ") . With these troops he served in the
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campaigns of 1637 (in which he became
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lieutenant-general), 1638 and 1639 . At the siege of Thionville (Diedenhofen) he received a mortal wound . His lettres inedites appeared (ed . Gallois) in Paris in 1845 . His son ANTOINE MANASSES DE PAS,
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Marquis de Feuquieres (1648–1711), was born at Paris in 1648, and entered the army at the age of eighteen . His conduct at the siege of
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Lille in 1667, where he was wounded, won him promotion to the rank of captain .

In the campaigns of 1672 and 1673 he served on the

staff of Marshal Luxemburg, and at the siege of Oudenarde in the following
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year the king gave him command of the Royal Marine regiment, which he held until he obtained a regiment of his own in 1676 . In 1688 he served as a brigadier at the siege of Philipsburg, and afterwards led a ravaging expedition into south Germany, where he acquired much booty . Promoted Marechal de Camp, he served under Catinat against the Waldenses, and in the course of the war won the
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nickname of the " Wizard." In 1692 he made a brilliant defence of Speierbach against greatly
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superior forces, and was rewarded with the rank of lieutenant-general . He
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bore a distinguished
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part in Luxemburg's
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great victory of
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Neerwinden or Landen in 1693 . Marshal Villeroi impressed him less favourably than his old
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commander Luxemburg, and the resumption of war in 1701 found him in disfavour in consequence . The rest of his
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life, embittered bythe refusal of the marshal's baton, he spent in compiling his celebrated
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memoirs, which, coloured as they were by the
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personal animosities of the writer, were yet considered by Frederick the Great and the soldiers of the 18th century as the standard
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work on the
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art of war as a whole . He died in 1711 . The Memoires sur la guerre appeared in the same year and new
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editions were frequently published (Paris 1711, 1725, 1735, &c.,
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London 1736, Amsterdam subsequently) . An
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English version appeared in London 1737, under the title Memoirs of the Marquis de Feuquieres, and a German
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translation (Feuquieres geheime Nachrichten) at
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Leipzig 1732, 1738, and Berlin 1786 . They
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deal in detail with every branch of the art of war and of military service .

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