
Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (7 May 1724-22 August 1797) was a Field Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire during the French Revolutionary Wars. Born in the Kingdom of France, he was in the service of the French Army during the Seven Years' War, but left for the Austrian Empire after the French made peace with Great Britain in 1763 and went on to fight in the War of the Bavarian Succession and Second Russo-Turkish War.
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Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser was from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, a part of the Kingdom of France. From 1756 to 1763 he was in the service of the French Army in the Seven Years' War, but he later left France and joined the military of the Holy Roman Empire as a General of Cavalry. Wurmser went on to fight in the War of the Bavarian Succession and Second Russo-Turkish War, and from 1793 to 1795 he commanded Austrian troops on the Rhine River against the French Revolutionary Army during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1796 General Wurmser was dispatched to Italy to replace Johann Beaulieu and was defeated at Trient in late March 1797, giving up the city to Napoleon Bonaparte's army. He withdrew and he died soon after of health failure.