Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest

Russian army commander

Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1776

Place of Birth: Constantinople

Date of Death: 17-Mar-1814

Profession: military personnel, military officer

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.



Alternative names	G. Daoe; D. Doj; Dawe; [Dawe]
Description	English portrait painter
Date of birth/death	8 February 1781	15 October 1829
Location of birth/death	St James's, Westminster	Kentish Town
Work location	Saint Petersburg (1818–1828)
Authority control	: Q1507231 VIAF: 22413721 ISNI: 0000 0000 6660 9928 ULAN: 500021368 LCCN: n83227323 WGA: DAWE, George WorldCat