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1653–1734 France
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis then Duc de Villars, Vicomte de Melun (8 May 1653 – 17 June 1734) was a general of Louis XIV of France, one of only six Marshals who have been promoted to Marshal General of France.
Also known as: Claude Louis Hector de Villsrs
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A general has to expose his life as much as he exposes the lives of others.
In war everything depends upon being able to deceive the enemy; and having once gained this point, in never allowing him time to recover himself.
The most shameful, humiliating and disastrous of routs.
If God lets us have the grace of losing such a battle again, Your Majesty can count on all of his enemies being destroyed.
Fortify your towns, and above all the Schellenberg, that fort above Donauworth, the importance of which the great Gustavus taught us.
Where there are no peasants there are no supplies.
What! Is it expected that I, a Marshal of France, should be the first to escalade, when I order you to attack?
My friends ... if you make the people run away, you will die of hunger.
When we are determined upon war, we should carry it on vigorously and without trifling.
Do you want to know where Prince Eugene’s real enemies are? They are in Vienna, while mine are in Versailles.
I have fought your Majesty's enemies, and I now leave you in the midst of my own.
When the first shot is fired, no one can calculate what will be the issue of the war. It is, therefore, of vast importance to reflect maturely before we begin it.
I am going to fight your enemies, I leave you in the midst of my own.
God protect me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies. [Variation: Defend me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies myself].
[Your nation] seems immovable, never doing glorious things but by halves, and never disgracing itself.
I am going to drive your enemies so far that they shall not again see the banks of the Scheldt; and by a battle on my arrival, to regain all that has been taken from your majesty.
God save me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies.
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