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Johann Tserclaes was born on February 1559 in Castle Tilly, Walloon Brabant, in the Spanish Netherlands, in what is now Belgium, to a devoutly Catholic Brabantine family. . After receiving a Jesuit education in Cologne, he joined the Spanish Army at the age of fifteen and fought under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma in his campaign against the rebellious Dutch forces during the Eighty Years ...
269. ISBN. 1-55786-368-7. Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 is a 1990 book by the American political scientist Charles Tilly . The central theme of the book is state formation. Tilly writes about the complex history of European state formation from the Middle Ages to the 1990s – a thousand-year time span.
Baron d'Empire (1812) Jacques-Louis-François Delaistre de Tilly ( French pronunciation: [ʒak lwi fʁɑ̃swa dəlɛstʁ də tili]; 2 February 1749, Vernon, Eure – 10 January 1822, Paris) became a general officer in the French army during the French Revolutionary Wars. He led a cavalry division in a number of battles during the Napoleonic Wars.
Claude Frederic t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly (July 1648 – April 1723) was a Dutch States Army officer and nobleman. He took part in the Franco-Dutch War, Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession and proved a brave and capable cavalry general. In 1708 he became the de facto supreme commander of the Dutch army, and led the Allied ...
Alberto Octavio Tserclaes de Tilly. Alberto Octavio Tserclaes de Tilly (also known as Antonio; 1646 – 10 September 1715) was a Spanish general of Walloon origins, the grandson of a brother of General Johann Tserclaes Count of Tilly, who acquired fame in the Thirty Years War. His brother, Claude Frédéric, served in the army of the Dutch ...
Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly[ nb 1] (baptised 27 December [ O.S. 16 December] 1761 – 26 May [ O.S. 14 May] 1818) was a Russian Field Marshal who figured prominently in the Napoleonic Wars . Barclay was born into a Baltic German family from Livland. His father was the first of his family to be accepted into the Russian nobility.
Billa II is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language action film [4] directed and co-written by Chakri Toleti.It is a prequel to Billa and the film was set at the ending of late 1990s.The story focuses on how David Billa, an ordinary man from the coastal regions of Sri Lanka, becomes a dreaded underworld don.
Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac, chevalier de Ternay (27 January 1723 – 15 December 1780) was a French naval officer. Most active in the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence, Ternay was the naval commander of a 1762 expedition that successfully captured St. John's Newfoundland. He was appointed commander of the Marine Royale ...