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SOUBISE, BENJAMIN DE ROHAN

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 436 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SOUBISE, BENJAMIN DE ROHAN , Duc DE (? 15891642), Huguenot leader, younger brother of Henri de Rohan, inherited his title through his mother Catherine de
Parthenay
 . He served his
apprenticeship
  as a soldier under Prince Maurice of Orange-Nassau in the Low Countries. In the religious wars from 1621 onwards his elder brother chiefly commanded on land and in the
south
 , Soubise in the west and along the sea-coast. His exploits in the conflict have been sympathetically related by his brother, who, if he was not quite an impartial witness, was one of the best military critics of the time. Soubise's
chief
  exploit was a singularly bold and well-conducted attack (in 1625) on the Royalist
fleet
  in the river Blavet (which included the cutting of a boom in the face of superior numbers) and the occupation of Oleron. He commanded at Rochelle during the famous siege, and (if we may believe his brother) the failure of the defence and of the English attack on Rhe was mainly due to the alternate obstinacy of the townsfolk and the English commanders in refusing tolisten to Soubise's advice. When surrender became inevitable he fled to England, which he had previously visited in quest of succour. He died in 1642 in London. The Soubise title after-wards served as the
chief
  second designation (not for heirs apparent, but for the chief collateral branch for the time being) of the
house
  of Rohan-Chabot.
The name Soubise appears again in the military history of France in the person of CHARLES DE ROHAN, PRINCE DE SOUBISE (17151787), peer and marshal of France, the grandson of the princesse de Soubise, who is known to history as one of t'ie distresses of Louis XIV. He accompanied Louis XV. in the campaign of 174448 and attained high military rank, which he owed more to his courtiership than to his generalship. Soon after the beginning of the Seven Years' War, through the influence of Mme de Pompadour, he was put in command of a corps of 24,000 men, and in November 1757 he sustained the crushing defeat of Rossbach. He was more fortunate, however, in his later military career, and continued in the service until the general peace of 1763, after which he lived the life of an
ordinary
  courtier and man of fashion in Paris, dying on the 4th of July 1787.


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