Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest
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Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard de Saint-Priest | |
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 Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard by George Dawe | |
| Born | 4 March 1776 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 29 March 1814 (aged 38) Laon, France |
| Allegiance |  Russian Empire |
| Rank | Major-General |
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Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest (4 March 1776, in Constantinople – 29 March 1814) was a French émigré general who fought in the Russian army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
He was the eldest son of prominent
Louis XVI of France's last ministers, and Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest
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Guillaume Emmanuel became a
Napoleon.[1] Some weeks before the Battle of Leipzig, he and his cavalry finally 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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References
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- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 42.
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