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conquered all his enemies and placed himself on the throne of France. Saxe entered the army at twelve, and soon obtained the command of a regiment of horse. He gained the celebrated victory of Fontenay at forty-nine. Vauban at the age of twenty-five had conducted several sieges. Turenne had won all his military reputation by the age of forty. The great Conde gained the famous battle of Rocrol at the age of twenty-two, and won all his military fame before twenty-five.--Prince Eugene, of Savoy, was Colonel at twenty one, Lieutenant Field Marshal at twenty four, gained the battle of Zente at thirty four and of Blenheim at forty-one.--Charles the Twelfth of Sweden completed his first successful campaign against Denmark at eighteen, overthrew eighty thousand Russians at Narva before nineteen, and conquered Poland and Saxony at twenty-four. Frederick the Great of Prussia terminated the first Silesian war at the age of thirty; the second Silesian war at thirty-three; and at forty thre