LA TOUR D´AUVERGNE HENRI DE: (1611-1675) Viscount of Turenne.

LA TOUR D´AUVERGNE HENRI DE: (1611-1675) Viscount of Turenne.
LA TOUR D´AUVERGNE HENRI DE: (1611-1675) Viscount of Turenne. French General, one of the only six Marshal General of France, appointed by Louis XIV. His multiple military exploits and battle victories earned him to be considered one of the greatest military commanders in modern history. La Tour d´Auvergne was killed by an Imperial cannonball at the Battle of Salzbach. A very fine rare A.L.S., `Turenne´, two pages, 4to, Collincourt, 9<sup>th</sup> July 1654, to Monsieur Le Tellier, Counselor to the King and Secretary of his commandments in Court, in French. Turenne states in part `J´envoi a votre Excellence des lettres de Monsieur le Comte Broglie dans lesquelles il compte, outre ce qui était a l´armée des ennemis, l´année passée trois mille Espagnols nouveaux venus, quatre mille Irlandais et quatre nouveaux regiments de Wallons…. on a vu débarquer encore ces jours passes a Dunkerke deux ou trois mille… Il n´I a point de munitions sur ces frontieres ici…´ (“I am sending to your Excellency letters from Count Broglie in which he counts, in addition to what was in the enemy army, last year three thousand new Spaniards, four thousand Irish and four new regiments of Walloons…. They have reported still these last days having seen two or three thousand disembarking at Dunkirk… There is no ammunition on these borders here…”) With address leaf, bearing remnants of a red wax seal. With small area of paper loss to the address leaf. Overall minor age wear, with small water stain to the bottom left corner not affecting the text or signature. About G