TRAUN, OTTO FERDINAND, COUNT VON ABENSPERG UND (1677-1748)

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TRAUN, OTTO FERDINAND, COUNT VON ABENSPERG UND (1677-1748) , Austrian field

marshal

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

, came of a noble family and was born on the 27th of August 1677 at Oldenburg. He was sent to

Halle

to complete his education, but in 1693 left the university to serve with the Prussian contingent of the allied army in the Low Countries. He saw much service in the War of the Grand Alliance, and at its close entered the imperial army. The War of the Spanish Succession soon followed, and Traun served with distinction in Italy and on the Rhine till 1709, when he became lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp to Field

Marshal

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

Count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Guido Starhemberg (1654-1737) in Spairf. A year later, for specially distinguished services, he was made colonel, and in 1712

chief

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

of a regiment of foot. Soon after the close of the war he was again actively employed, and at the action of Francavilla in Sicily (June 20, 1719) he received a severe wound. For his services in this campaign in southern Italy he was promoted General-Feldwachtmeister in 1723. 111.1727 he became

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of Messina, and in 1733 attained the rank of lieutenant field marshal. In 1734 he won a European reputation by his defence first of the pass of S. Germano and then of the half-ruined fortress of

Capua

CAPUA (anc.
Casilinum
- CASILINUM (mod. Capua)
;, a town and archiepiscopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 7 M. W. by rail from the town oI Caserta. Pop. (1901) 14
CAPUA (mod. S. Maria di Capua Vetere)

, which he surrendered, marching out with the honours of war on the 30th of November. He was at once promoted Feldzeugmeister and employed in a difficult semi-political command in

Hungary

HUNGARY
HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

, after which he was made

commander

COMMANDER

-in-

chief

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

in north Italy and interim

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

-general of the Milanese, in which capacity he received the homage of the army and civil authorities on the accession of Maria

Theresa

THERESA, ST (1515-1582)

in 1740. In the following year he was made a field-marshal. The Italian campaigns of the War of the Austrian Succession were successfully conducted by him up to 1743, when, on the death of Field-Marshal

Count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Khevenhuller (q.v.), he was made the principal military adviser of Prince Charles of Lorraine (q.v.), who commanded the Austrians in Bohemia and on the Danube. In this capacity he inspired the brilliant operations which led up to the passage of the Rhine (see AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION, WAR OF THE) and the skilful strategy whereby Frederick of Prussia was forced to evacuate Bohemia and Moravia (1744) without a battle. Traun's last active service was the command of an army which was sent to Frankfurt to influence the election of a new emperor to succeed Charles VII. He died at Hermannstadt on the 18th of February 1748.
See Biographien k. k. Heerfiihrer, herausgegeben v. d. Direktion des k. and k. Kriegsarchiv; Thurheim, F. M. Otto Ferdinand, Graf v. Abensperg and Traun.

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