Draft:John Sigismund Maguire

John Sigismund Maguire of Enniskillen (1710–12 January, 1767) was an Irish-Habsburg general. He is most known for his defense of Dresden in 1760.

Life
John Maguire was born in the parish of Ballymacelligot, County Kerry in 1710. Maguire came from the Maguire Clan of County Fermanagh, which left during the time of the Irish Confederate Wars and settled in Kerry.

He left Ireland and joined the Austrian army; in 1729 he was documented as an ensign in Temesvár and fought in the War of the Polish Succession, and the Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739) and in the War of the Austrian Succession under the command of the renowned Austrian commanders of Irish origin, Field-Marshal Maximilian Ulysses Browne and Lieutenant-General Franz Moritz von Lacy.

In the Seven Years' War he was a Lieutenant Field Marshal and took part in the battles of Lobositz and Prague He captured the fortress of Sonnenstein in September 1758 after a 3 day siege. He was second in command at the capture of Dresden in 1759 and as as military governor successfully defended it in the Siege of Dresden by Frederick the Great in 1760. Maguire refused the King's request to surrender with the words "that having the honour to have charge of the defences of this city I will defend it to the last man" He received the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa for his defence of Dresden and was given command of Olomouc.

He died on the 12th January 1767 in Troppau, the capital of Austrian Silesia.

Family
He had been married to Elisabeth Louise since 1743. On 24 September 1763 he married Maria Antonia von Blümegen (* 3 June 1742; † 1785). Both marriages were without issue.