François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Piney-Luxembourg, commonly known as Luxembourg, and nicknamed "The Upholsterer of Notre-Dame", was a French general and Marshal of France. A comrade an
Le Duc de Piney-Luxembourg
Dutch engraving of Montmorency; in the background his troops massacre Dutch civilians
Battle of Fleurus (1690)
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The Battle of Fleurus, fought on 1 July 1690 near Fleurus, then part of the Spanish Netherlands, now in modern Belgium, was a major engagement of the Nine Years' War. A French army led by Marshall Lux
François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg
…superseding Louis de Crevant, Duke of Humières. On 1 July 1690, he won his greatest victory over William's allied commander, the Prince of Waldeck, at Fleurus. Strategically the battle however changed little. In the following year his cavalry showed its superiority at Leuze, despite being eventually thrown…
Battle of Fleurus, Pierre-Denis Martin
Battle of Fleurus 1690, from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Waldeck and Dutch soldiers after the battle.