Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest
- Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Großdrebnitz
- Battle of Reims
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
- Gold Sword for Bravery with diamonds
Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Pour le Mérite (Prussia)
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, 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 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.
References
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Saint Priest, François Emmanuel Guignard s.v. Guillaume Emmanuel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 42.
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