Show Who Came Ba BaBy BaI Ba I By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE j jI I PRINCE EUGENE th the Failure Who Conquered Half of Europe He was Francois Eugene fifth son of ot the tho prince of ot Savoy His father was French His mother was an Italian maid of ot honor at the French court The boy began life badly enough by being the youngest of ot a none too rich fathers father's large largo family To make things worse he was cursed with physical I Infirmities and and defects that made made- him himI the pity and the scorn of luckier I youths Then when he reached early manhood manhood man man- hood came a crushing blow man man-I Eugene was military mad The one aim and longing of ot his life was to bo be a soldier He dreamed of ot military glory His Ills family wanted to make a priest of ot him But he hewon won their consent to I let him Wm go Into the army anny No sooner was this consent gained than a far worse obstacle came between Eugene and his goal Louis XIV was king Icing of ot France Louis hated Eugenes Eugene's mother By way of ot petty revenge against her ho he refused to allow her son to enter the French army The kings king's prime minister too hated Eugene and he brought the young man Into public disgrace At Atthe Atthe Atthe the same time Louis injured the forI fortunes fortunes for for- tunes of ot Eugenes Eugene's family and dismissed I the young mans man's mother from her post of ot honor bonor at court Eugenes Eugene's career was thus ruined at atthe atthe atthe the very outset He lie was barred from the army array and from court Noblemen turned their backs on him when he met them Through no fault of ot his own heI he ho was a failure Not only that but his beloved mother had been brought to I humiliation on his account France was too hot for tor him He Tie went into exile I Few young men have had more obstinate obstinate obstinate ob ob- ob- ob setbacks at so early an age The fawning courtiers who curried favor with their king by sneering at Eugene regarded him as one of the most laughable figures of ot the day Instead of letting failure depress him into apathy Eugene became the more I determined to succeed yes succeed d yes and to win winI revenge against the king who had refused refused reI re- re I I fused him a career and who had In- In j suited his dear mother II He Ho left lert France His Ilis distant cousin was emperor of ot Austria To him the young exile now went asking for a commission in the Austrian army The emperor accepted Eugenes Eugene's services and gave him a a. cavalry captaincy It was the wisest move any Austrian em- em 3 ever made made a a move that change the history and the tho Europe Through reckless bra sheer military genius Eugene Eugener r rIn In the Austrian service Lo Lou Loul l lor of or his rise and sought once oncel j disgrace him He lie sent Eugene message bidding him return alFrance at al France penalty of or Eugene wrote this cUT cUTI cur cu curI I shall return some day t to But It will be at the head of Otil a at log ing army j 1 Within a very ery few years gene was a major general In iri and high in the favor of or the emperor He lIe used his new Inn spur spur Austria on to an alliance France under penalty of ot gene the baton of ot a marshal of 01 ofas ofas as a bribe to leave Austria's a his own Eugene sent back ar arIng i ilog r ring Ing log refusal and doubled his e ei stir up strife between France Frances Franc II tria The failure had aready l M make good 4 Austria and Turkey were at Turks' Turks invasion threatened t tc all the continent Eugene i at-i of ot the tho Austrian forces met stronger Turkish army at Z 1687 1667 annihilating it and fort for Sultan to sign a peace treathe treaty treat he lie besieged Belgrade fended by a Turkish force s sas sas sas as strong as his own and b 11 forced the city to surrender marching on Its the Sultan again sued for tor p pe peAt peAt At la last t Eugene succeeded In England and Austria and Holl IToh Hollan an alliance against Louis H Ha lie e down clown upon tho the French armies annles 1 Italy and ned demolished them 0 another Thence he went to to tg where In 1704 he lie and th Marlborough Maryborough beat the Fre Frencl great battle of ot Blenheim Benheim 3 11 Afterward at the head of Ing fag army army ann as he had long ag agh ago 1 hp h hp marched Into France Prance 3 Thirteen dangerous rous wounds lanche of ot wealth and anti honors conquest of almost half haU of of these were some of ot the resul failures half haU century o J all his rev glory glor- Greatest of ot r his own way of thinking humbling of Louis Louts and the av tho the French monarchs monarch's Ill tr trea him and his mother 1 the tho first time In history Aus AU raised by Eugene to the rank rant most military power of ot the the wI wi |