KHEVENHULLER, LUDWIG ANDREAS (1683-1744)

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KHEVENHULLER, LUDWIG ANDREAS (1683-1744) , Austrian field-

marshal

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

, Count of Aschelberg-Frankenburg, came of a noble family, which, originally Franconian, settled in Carinthia in the 11th century. He first saw active service under Prince

Eugene

EUGENE

in the War of the Spanish Succession, and by 1716 had risen to the command of Prince

Eugene

EUGENE

's own regiment of dragoons. He distinguished himself greatly at the battles of Peterwardein and Belgrade, and became in 1723 major-general of cavalry (General-Wachtsneister), in 1726 proprietary colonel of a regiment and in 1733 lieutenant field

marshal

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

. In 1734 the War of the Polish Succession brought him into the field again. He was present at the battle of Parma (June 29), where Count Mercy, the Austrian

commander

COMMANDER

, was killed, and after Mercy's death he held the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

command of the army in Italy till Field Marshal Konigsegg's arrival. Under Konigsegg he again distinguished himself at the battle of Guastalla (September 19). He was once more in command during the operations which followed the battle, and his skilful generalship won for him the grade of general of cavalry. He continued in military and diplomatic employment in Italy to the close of the war. In 1737 he was made field marshal, Prince Eugene recommending him to his sovereign as the best general in the service. His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

exploit in the Turkish War, which soon followed his promotion, was at Radojevatz (September 28,1737), where he cut his way through a greatly superior Turkish army. It was in the Austrian Succession War that his most brilliant

work

WORK

was done. As

commander

COMMANDER

-in-chief of the army on the Danube he not only drove out the French and Bavarian invaders of Austria in a few days of rapid marching and

sharp

SHARP,
GRANVILLE
- GRANVILLE
- GRANVILLE, GRANVILLE
- GRANVILLE, JOHN
  CARTERET
  - CARTERET, SIR GEORGE (c. 1610-1680)
  , EARL (1690-1763)
(1735-1813)
SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

engagements (January, 1742), but overran southern Bavaria, captured Munich, and forced a large French corps in Linz to surrender. Later in the summer of 1742, owing to the inadequate forces at his disposal, he had to evacuate his conquests, but in the following campaign, though now subordinated to Prince Charles of Lorraine, Khevenhtiller
reconquered southern Bavaria, and forced the emperor in June to conclude the unfavourable convention of Nieder-Schonfeld. He disapproved the advance beyond the Rhine which followed these successes, and the event justified his fears, for the Austrians had to fall back from the Rhine through Franconia and the Breisgau, Khevenhuller himself conducting the

retreat

RETREAT (O. Fr. retrete, mod. retraite, from Lat. retrahere, to draw back)

with admirable skill. On his return to Vienna, Maria

Theresa

THERESA, ST (1515-1582)

decorated the field marshal with the order of the Golden Fleece. He died suddenly at Vienna on the 26th. of January 1744.
He was the author of various instructional works for officers and soldiers (Des G. F. M. Grafen v. Khevenhuller Observationspunkte fur sein Dragoner-regiment (1734 and 1748) and a reglement for the infantry (1737), and of an important

work

WORK

on war in general, Kurzer Begriff aller militdrischen Operationen (Vienna, 1756; French version, Maximes de guerre, Paris, 1771).

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