Ya fara aikinsa na soja a matsayin jami'in a cikin Life Guards amma an sallame shi a cikin tsaftacewar anti-Catholic a 1667, wanda ya ɗauki sabis na Faransa kuma ya umurci "gens d'armes" na Ingilishi sannan kuma wani rukunin Irish a cikin Yaƙin Franco-Dutch (1672<unk>1678). Ya yi aiki a karkashin Turenne a yakin Sinsheim da
Entzheim a shekara ta 1674. Ya kuma yi yaƙi a Sasbach (1675) inda aka kashe Turenne. Daga nan sai ya rufe koma baya a Altenheim. An kashe shi a cikin 1676 a cikin wani aiki na baya a Col de Saverne yayin da yake aiki a ƙarƙashin Luxembourg. Matsayinsa na ƙarshe shi ne "Maréchal de camp" (babban janar). An san shi da "comte", amma ko Louis XIV ya ɗaukaka shi da gaske ba shi da tabbas.