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Maximilian Ulysses, Count von Browne, baron de Camus and Mountany - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES BROWNE, COUNT VON, BARON DE Camus And Mountany (1705-1757), Austrian field marshal, was born at Basel on the 23rd of October 1705. |
 | | His uncle Georg, Reichsgraf von Browne (1698-1792), was a distinguished soldier, who rose to the rank of field marshal in the Russian army, and was made Reichsgraf by the emperor Joseph II. |
 | | Browne's army, advancing to the relief of Pirna (see Seven Years' War), was met, and, after a hard struggle, defeated by the king at Lobositz, but he drew off in excellent order, and soon made another attempt with a picked force to reach Pirna, by wild mountain tracks. |
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