Armand de Vignerot Du Plessis - Military Career

Military Career

Further information: War of the Polish Succession and War of the Austrian Succession

In 1733-1734, he served in a Rhine campaign during the War of the Polish Succession. The following decade during the War of the Austrian Succession he fought with distinction at Dettingen and Fontenoy, where he directed the grapeshot upon the British columns, and three years afterwards he made a brilliant defence of Genoa.

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