Armand Charles Guilleminot

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

Guilleminot occurred in 1782 in the French army and fought under Dumouriez and Pichegru in the Northern Army, and later under Moreau in Italy and on the Rhine. His close connection to Moreau, whose aide he was later made him suspicious at Napoleon. He was temporarily dismissed from the service, but received in 1805 again a job in the army.

1808 Guilleminot was sent as chief of staff under General Bessières to Spain, where he participated in the Battle of Medina de Rioseco in the province of Valladolid and was subsequently promoted to brigadier general. In 1809 he again fought in Italy and returned again in 1810 to the Iberian Peninsula back. In 1812 he went as a member of the General Staff of the Russian campaign and was in 1813 appointed general of division. He joined after the abdication of Napoleon in 1814 the Bourbons, but went with the return of the emperor again about this. He led under Ney at the Battle of Quatre -Bras division.

In 1815 he joined as Chief of Staff of General Davout the capitulation of Paris and remained even after the restoration in active employment. Later in the campaign against Spain Guilleminot was the real head of the operation as Chief of Staff of the Duke of Angoulême. He was appointed Pair and 1824 as envoy in Constantinople Opel Then, where he worked until 1831. In 1839 he became chairman of a boundary Regulatory Commission on the Rhine.

Armand Charles, Count Guilleminot died on March 14, 1840 in Baden -Baden.