Johann Sigismund Macquire of Inniskillen

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Johann Sigismund Macquire of Inniskillen

Count Johann Sigismund Macquire von Inniskillen (* 1710 or 1711 in Ballymacelligot , County Kerry (Ireland); † January 21, 1767 in Troppau ) was an Austro-Hungarian general field master. For the successful defense of Dresden in 1760 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order . In addition, from 1751 to 1763 he was the owner of the kuk 46th infantry regiment and from 1763 to 1767 owner of the kuk 35th infantry regiment.

Life

He comes from the noble Irish family Maguire ( Irish Mag Uidhir ) from Enniskillen , who had participated in the Irish rebellion of 1641 and was expropriated. His parents were James McGuire and Cecelia McNamara Reagh . Some of the family members had then emigrated to the continent, for example Philip Francis Maguire in French services. So Johann Sigismund went into foreign service early on.

Little is known about his early career; he is said to have joined the imperial army around 1722. In 1729 he is documented as an ensign in Temesvár . In 1731 he became a captain in the O'Neillan regiment and fought in the War of the Polish Succession and the War of the Turks . He came to the military border in 1742. He distinguished himself during the attack on Genoa on September 6th, 1745. In 1746 he became a colonel in the newly established Warasdin border militia. He then helped to build it up. In the same year he fought with the troops in Italy in the War of the Austrian Succession and was able to capture a Spanish troop with their leader there near Pontremoli . In the following Battle of Piacenza he and his troops distinguished themselves in such a way that he was appointed major general. At La Bocchetta he was able to conquer a heavily fortified redoubt and drive the enemy back to Lavezzara. At the end of the year he went to Draguignan with 4,000 men to keep the enemy at bay. He stayed in the area until January 24, 1747. He was then involved in the siege of Genoa , but without appearing. After the war he was a member of the commission that was supposed to reorganize the border troops.

During the Seven Years' War he was appointed field marshal lieutenant on August 28, 1756 and fought in 1756 near Lobositz , Reichenberg and Prague . After the defeat at Prague he was commissioned to operate in the rear of the enemy. When the Prussians had to return to Saxony after the defeat in Kolin , he was supposed to keep the Prussians away from their depots in Zittau . This did not succeed but the withdrawing Prussians under the Prince of Prussia lost a lot of material and a large number of soldiers deserted. Macquire was also able to capture the strategically important fork after 36 hours of bombardment. In November 1757 he fought in the Battle of Breslau . He pushed the Prussians back to Pilsnitz. He was injured in the Battle of Leuthen . In 1758 he was only involved in the operations against the small Sonnenstein fortress , which surrendered after three days. In the following year 1759 he led the successful siege of Dresden . When he heard of an approaching relief army, he waived the Prussian war chest in negotiations with the Prussian commandant and granted the withdrawal before this information reached the Prussian commandant. So the Austrians regained possession of the city. Macquire received the Grand Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order and became Feldzeugmeister and commander of the city. When the Prussian King Friedrich II besieged the city in 1760 , he successfully defended it. He remained in command of Dresden until the end of the war. From May 1762 to May 1763 he was the commanding general of the Imperial Army in Saxony, after which he was transferred to the fortress of Olomouc . He died in 1767 on his estate in Troppau.

family

He was married to Elisabeth Louise since 1743 . She was a born Countess Hardegg and widowed Baroness von Livingstone since 1742 . On September 24, 1763 he married Maria Antonia von Blümegen (* June 3, 1742; † 1785), she was the daughter of the Chancellor Heinrich Kajetan von Blümegen . Both marriages had no offspring. After the death of her husband, the widow remarried. First Johann Rudolph von Kolowrat-Liebstein († July 15, 1772) and then her uncle Johann Christoph Heinrich von Blümegen (* 1722).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia of Virginia biography Vol. 4, p. 66.
  2. ^ Franz Joseph Schwoy, Topographische Schilderung des Markgrafthum Moravia , Volume 1, p. 80, digitized Biskupitz
  3. ^ Maria Antonia von Blümegen
personal data
SURNAME Macquire from Inniskillen, Johann Sigismund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maguire von Inniskilen, Johann Sigismund; Maguire, Johann Sigismund von; McGuire, John Sigismund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial and Royal General Feldzeugmeister, defender of Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH 1710 or 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballymacelligot , County Kerry (Ireland)
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1767
Place of death Troppau