Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is not, however, with the career of Saxe, deemed once an immortal captain of the eighteenth century, that we need concern ourselves any more. The echo of the campaigns in which he played so shining a part has long since been stilled. With all their loud-sounding fame the wars of the old regime always ended in a general as you were.