Pocházel z Henegavska v rakouském Nizozemí. V roce 1750 vstoupil jako podporučík k pěšímu pluku č. 30. Bojoval v řadě bitev sedmileté války, např. u Štěrbohol, Lehnice či Leuthenu, získal hodnost plukovníka a Vojenský řád Marie Terezie.
François Sébastien Charles Joseph deCroix, Count of Clerfayt ( French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa sebastjɛ̃ ʃaʁl ʒozɛf də kʁwa]; 14 October 1733 – 21 July 1798), [1 ] a Walloon, joined the army of the Habsburg monarchy and soon fought in the…
Franz SebastiandeCroix, Graf vonClerfayt (1733-98) was a senior Austrian general in the early years of the War of the First Coalition, and fought through the entire campaign in the Austrian Netherlands in 1792-94, before defeating a…
Charles deCroix, count vonClerfayt was an Austrian field marshal who was one of the more successful of the Allied generals campaigning against Revolutionary France in the early 1790s.