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Maurice of Nassau was a general.

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Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) ...was educated at the Jesuit College of La Fleche until 1614. He then went to Holland to serve in the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau. In 1622 he returned to France, but six years later he returned to Holland where he began to write The World in...
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