Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest
Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard de Saint-Priest | |
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Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard by George Dawe | |
| Other name | Emmanuil Francevich Saint-Priest |
| Born | 4 March 1776 |
| Died | 29 March 1814 (aged 38) |
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| Rank | Major-general |
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Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest[a] (4 March 1776, in Constantinople – 29 March 1814) was a French émigré general who fought in the Imperial Russian Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
He was the eldest son of prominent émigré diplomat François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735–1821), one of King Louis XVI's last ministers, and Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest.
Guillaume Emmanuel became a major-general in the Russian army under Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and fought against the forces of Napoleon.[1] Some weeks before the Battle of Leipzig, he and his cavalry defeated the troops of French brigade general François Basile Azemar in the Battle of Großdrebnitz. Saint-Priest was defeated and mortally wounded during the 1814 Allied invasion of France in the Battle of Reims and died two weeks later at Laon.
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- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 42.