Armand Charles Guilleminot

Armand Charles Guilleminot

Armand Charles Graf Guilleminot (born March 2, 1774 in Dunkirk , †  March 14, 1840 in Baden-Baden ) was a French general and diplomat .

Life

Guilleminot joined the Brabant troops in the uprising against Austria in 1790 and, after their defeat in 1792, joined the French army. There he was initially a member of Dumouriez's staff in the Northern Army and, after his escape, he joined the Pichegru Army . He later served under Moreau in Italy and on the Rhine . His close association with Moreau, whose adjutant he had been, later made him suspicious of Napoleon . He was temporarily dismissed from the service, but because of his topographical knowledge he was again employed in the general staff in 1805. In 1806 he became the emperor's wing adjutant.

In 1808 Guilleminot was sent to Spain as Chief of the General Staff under General Bessières , where he took part in the Battle of Medina de Rioseco in the province of Valladolid on July 14, 1808 and was then promoted to Général de brigade . In 1809 he fought again in Italy and returned to the Iberian Peninsula in 1810 . In the Russian campaign in 1812 he was only with the great general staff and after the withdrawal from Moscow became chief of staff at Murat . He became general de division in March 1813 , distinguished himself as the commander of a division of the 4th Army Corps in the battles near Lützen and Bautzen , defeated General Dobschütz near Zahna on September 5, and defeated the Swedes attack on Dessau on September 28 back. In the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig he commanded the 13th Division in Maréchal Marmont's 6th Corps . After Napoleon's abdication in 1814, he joined the Bourbons and, when the Emperor returned from Elba , became Chief of Staff to the Duke of Berry. But soon he went again to Napoleon and led by Ney in the Battle of Quatre Bras , a Division .

In 1815, as Chief of Staff under General Davout , Guilleminot closed the surrender of Paris and remained in active employment after the Restoration . He became the head of the topographic corps and headed the survey on the Swiss border . In 1816 he took over the position of general director of the war depot at the head of the entire mapping and surveying system. In the campaign against Spain in 1823, Guilleminot was actually chief of the operation as chief of staff of the Duke of Angoulême . He was then appointed peer in October 1823 and in 1824 French ambassador to Constantinople , where he had great influence on Sultan Mahmud II's military reforms. In 1826 he returned to Paris, was acquitted in the trial against Ouvrard because of the army supply contracts concluded at Bayonne for the Spanish war and, after justifying himself in a special pamphlet, returned to his diplomatic post. There he skilfully advocated the independence of Greece , supported the gate through his council during the Russian War in 1828 and 1829 and fought against Russian influences in the Ottoman Empire after the July Revolution of 1830 . In March 1831 he even advised the Porte to go to war against Russia. His government did not approve of this activity, however, and Guilleminot was therefore dismissed in 1831. In the chamber of peers he declared himself ready to present pieces of files as evidence that he had not exceeded his powers. But the communication of these files was thwarted by the Foreign Minister, Count Sébastiani .

Since then, Guilleminot lived in Paris as an available general, but was a member of the Chamber of Deputies . In 1839 he became chairman of a border regulation commission on the Rhine . Even before the completion of this contract, he died on March 14, 1840 at the age of 66 in Baden-Baden from complications from a cold.

Honors

His name is entered on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 7th column.

Publications

• Campagne de 1823: exposé sommaire des mesures administratives adoptées pour l'exécution de cette campagne , Paris 1826

literature

• Guilleminot, Armand Charles , in: Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon , 14th edition 1892-96, Vol. 8, p. 541.

Web links

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