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Maximilian Ulysses Browne
1757Jun, 26

Maximilian Ulysses Browne

Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
Maximilian Ulysses, Reichsgraf von Browne, Baron de Camus and Mountany (23 October 1705 – 26 June 1757) was an Austrian military officer, one of the highest-ranking officers serving the Hapsburg Emperor during the middle of the 18th century. An Irish refugee, he was a scion of the Wild Geese.

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