Charles de Croix, count von Clerfayt

Charles de Croix, count von Clerfayt (born Oct. 14, 1733, Bruille, Austrian Netherlands [now in Belgium]—died July 19, 1798, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian field marshal who was one of the more successful of the Allied generals campaigning against Revolutionary France in the early 1790s. Clerfayt entered the Austrian army in 1753, distinguished himself during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), and also took part in the Turkish War of 1787. In 1792, at the outset...