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EUGENE OF SAVOY - LoveToKnow Article on EUGENE OF SAVOY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | By means of a stratagem, however, Eugene penetrated into the city during the night, at the head of 2000 men, and, though he found it impossible to hold the town, succeeded in carrying off Villeroi as a prisoner. |
 | | Prince Eugene, having now attained his seventy-first year, no longer possessed the vigour and activity necessary for a general in the field, and he welcomed the peace which was concluded on the 3rd of October 1735. |
 | | Prince Eugene was a man of the middle size, but, upon the whole, well made; the cast of his visage was somewhat long, his mouth mOderate and almost always open; his eyes were fl and animated, and his complexion such as became a warrior. |
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