Turenne

[ too-ren; French ty-ren ]

noun

1. Hen·ri de la Tour d'Au·vergne de [ah, n, -, ree, d, uh, l, a, , toor, doh-, vern, -y, uh, d, uh], 1611–75, French general and marshal.

Turenne

/ tyrɛn /

noun

1. Turenne, Vicomte de16111675MFrenchMILITARY: general Vicomte de , title of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne . 1611–75, French marshal. He commanded armies during the Thirty Years' War and the wars of the Fronde

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A young Brooklyn artist named Marc Ganzglass was showing a recent piece called "Turenne Railing".

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It was a species of brief elegy to the memory of Turenne, whom the French soldier still regarded as his tutelar genius.

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Prince of Conde, at the head of 2000 cavalry, threw himself into Cambray, then besieged by marshal Turenne.

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At the head of an army of an hundred thousand men, directed by Turenne, he speedily overran Flanders.

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Diederic went back to serve under Marshal Turenne in Germany, and made the campaign of 1644.

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Turenne received permission to join the Swedes; and the last campaign of this eventful war was now opened by the united armies.

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