besieged Palermo. For eleven years more he administered the Banat, reorganizing the country as a prosperous and civilized community. In 1733 he was made a general field marshal in the army and in the Spring of that year he and the Irish-born Major General Baron Francis Patrick O'Neillan assembled 50,000 men at Mantua in an effort to reclaim all that had been lost the previous year when the Austrians had been driven from Italy by the Franco-Spanish forces. Mercy was killed on 29 June 1734 at the Battle of Parma while personally leading his troops. He left no children, and his name passed to Count Argenteau, from whom came the family of Mercy-Argenteau. He was the foster father of Florimund Count de Mercy d'Argenteau. On 3 August 2009, a bust of the count was unveiled in Central Park, Timișoara. References 1666 births 1734 deaths People from Longwy Counts of Austria Field marshals of Austria Austrian army commanders in the War of the Spanish Succession Austrian military personnel of the War of the Polish Succession Generals of the Holy Roman Empire Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718)