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 | | In 1638 he was made a count of the empire, and in 1639, having been fortunate enough to win a great victory over the French (relief of Thionville, July 7, 1639), he was rewarded with the office of privy councillor from the emperor and with the dukedom of Amalfi from the king of Spain. |
 | | But instead of being appointed, as he hoped, Gallass successor, he was called in to act as ad latus to the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, with whom lie was defeated in the second battle of Breitenfeld in 1642. |
 | | But when in 1648 Melander fell in battle at Zusmarshausen, Piccolomini was at last appointed lieutenant-general of the emperor, and thus conducted as generalissimo the final campaign of the weary and desultory Thirty Years War. |
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