Boisseleau, Alexandre de Rainier de Droué (c.1650–1698)

Eamonn O Ciardha

Boisseleau, Alexandre de Rainier de Droué (c.1650–1698)

Eamonn O Ciardha

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Boisseleau, Alexandre de Rainier de Droué (c.1650–1698), marquis of Boisseleau, French major-general and governor of Limerick, was not yet 40 at the time of his appointment to command the besieged Jacobite forces in Limerick, but had spent most of his life in the French army, counting among his campaigns the battle of Saint-Denys and the sieges of Tournai, Douai, Lille, Maastricht, Artois, Valenciennes, Cambrai, and Luxembourg.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Dictionary of Irish Biography
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	630-631
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	9780521633314
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Nov 2009

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Boisseleau, Alexandre de Rainier de Droué (c.1650–1698)

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