François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (died 1798)

François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt

Austrian marshal

François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, a Walloon, joined the army of the Habsburg monarchy and soon fought in the Seven Years' War. Later in his military career, he led Austrian troops in the war against Ottoman Turkey. During the French Revolutionary…