BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY Austrian field marshal, was born at Basle on Oct. 23, 1705. His father (Ulysses Freiherr v. Browne, d. 1731) was an Irish exile of 5690, who entered the imperial service and in 1716 was made a count of the Empire (Reichsgra f) by Charles VI. He was a lieutenant field marshal in command of the Silesian garrisons when in 1740 Frederick II. overran the province. His careful employment of such resources as he possessed materially hindered the king in his conquest and gave time for Austria to collect a field army (see AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION, WAR OF THE) ; he was wounded at the battle of Mollwitz. Browne took part in the Italian campaigns of 1746-49 and became commander-in-chief in Bohemia in 1751, and field marshal two years later. He was still in Bohemia when the Seven Years' War opened with Frederick's invasion of Saxony (1756). Browne's army, advancing to the relief of Pirna (see SEVEN YEARS' WAR), was met, and, after a hard struggle, defeated by the king at Lobositz (Oct. I), but he drew off in excellent order, and soon made another attempt with a picked force to reach Pirna, by wild mountain tracks. He actually reached the Elbe at Schandau, but as the Saxons were unable to break out Browne retired, having succeeded, however, in delaying the development of Frederick's operations for a whole campaign. In the campaign of he voluntarily served under Prince Charles of Lorraine (q.v.) who was made commander-in chief, and while leading a bayonet charge at the battle of Prague was wounded. He died on June 26, his last days embittered by the knowledge that he was unjustly held responsible for the failure of the campaign.