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    Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac (about 1630, Sainte-Radegonde, Gironde – 10 May 1704) was a career soldier in the French army under King Louis XIV and...
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    Grünwettersbach (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    In 1689 it was looted and burned again by the troops of General Ezéchiel de Mélac. In 1697 at the latest, a blacksmith's shop, the oldest surviving...
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    Pirmasens (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the Nine Years' War, it was sacked by French troops under General de Ezéchiel Mélac, who devastated the Palatinate in 1689. In 1691, only 16 people lived...
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    Wiesloch (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Wiesloch was attacked on 28 January 1689 by French troops under Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac, during the Nine Years' War, and was almost completely burnt...
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    72-year-old Lieutenant General Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac who commanded a garrison of 4,095 infantry and 240 cavalrymen. Mélac was notorious for his brutal...
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    outcry at the time, French troops, under notorious General Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac, devastated large parts of the Palatinate, Baden and Württemberg...
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    Berghülen (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1618–1648 and in the Nine Years' War 1688–1697 under general Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac Berghülen was taken hard. In 1763 a large part of the town...
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    Pforzheim (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    August 1689, a French army unit under the command of General Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac appeared in front of Pforzheims town gates, but this time the...
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    Bruchsal Palace (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac attacked and destroyed the Philippsburg and then Speyer, on 1 June 1689, razing the city and the Episcopal Palace [de]...
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    Dill, Germany (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Dill was destroyed in 1697 by a French army under General Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac. As a result of Evangelical Pastor Christoph Besold's intercession...
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