He came earlier to Spain as a Colonel of a Walloon Regiment financed by Imperial Spain, to fight in the Spanish War of Succession in 1703, the siege of Gibraltar (1704–1707), participating also in the siege of Tortosa, Tarragona, in 1711, where he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.
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