Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest
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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 émigré diplomat François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735–1821), one of King Louis XVI of France's last ministers.
Guillaume Emmanuel became a major-general in the Russian army under Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and fought against the forces of Napoleon. 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.
Honours and awards
- Order of St. Anna, 1st class
- Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class
- Order of St. George, 2nd class
- Order of St. George, 3rd class
- Order of St. George, 4th class
- Order of St. John of Jerusalem
- Pour le Mérite (Prussia)
- Gold Sword for Bravery with diamonds
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- 1776 births
- 1814 deaths
- People from Istanbul
- French generals
- People of the French Revolution
- Russian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
- Viscounts of Saint-Priest
- Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Second Degree
- Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree
- Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class
- Knights of the Order of St John
- Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class)
- Recipients of the Gold Sword for Bravery
