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Raimondo Montecuccoli (Italian pronunciation: [raiˈmondo monteˈkukkoli]; 21 February 1609 – 16 October 1680) was an Italian-born professional soldier, military theorist, and diplomat, who served the Habsburg monarchy.
Raimondo Montecuccoli (pronúncia italiana: [raiˈmondo monteˈkukkoli]; 21 de fevereiro de 1609 — 16 de outubro de 1680) foi um soldado profissional nascido na Itália, teórico militar e diplomata, que serviu à monarquia de Habsburgo.
Raimondo Montecuccoli was a field marshal and military reformer, a master of the warfare based on fortifications and manoeuvre, who led Austrian armies to victory against enemies of the House of Habsburg for half a century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
commanders was Count Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-1680), an Italian condottiere whose long and varied career encompassed more than five decades of continual military conflict.1 To his contemporaries Montecuccoli was known as the general who defeated the Turks at St. Gotthard in 1664 and successfully dueled
MONTECUCCULI (MONTECUCCOLI), RAIMONDO, Count Of (1609-1680), prince of the holy Roman Empire and Neapolitan duke of Melfi, Austrian general, was born on the 21st of February 1608/9, at the castle of Montecucculo in Modena.
Raimondo Montecùccoli, Imperial field commander and one of the most influential military theorists of the seventeenth century, was born in 1609, third son of an old-established Modenese noble family.
His victory (1664) at Szentgotthárd was the first serious blow to Ottoman power in Hungary. In the Dutch War of 1672–78, Montecucculi commanded imperial forces with mixed success against the French generals Turenne and Condé. He was made (1679) a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and duke of Melfi.
