François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt

François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, (14 October 1733 – 21 July 1798), Austrian field marshal, was born at the Castle of Bruille in Hainaut in the Austrian Netherlands. He entered the Austrian army in 1753. In the Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763) he distinguished himself, earning rapid promotion, and receiving the decoration of the order of Maria Theresa. At the conclusion of the peace (Treaty of Hubertusburg, 15 February 1763), though still under thirty, he had already become a colonel.

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See von Vivenot, Thugut, Clerfayt, und Würmser (Vienna, 1869).

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