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Monday, December 23rd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Desaix, Louis Charles Antoine
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A distinguished French general, born at the Château d'Ayat, Auvergne, of a noble family; entered the army at 15; commanded a division of the Army of the Rhine in 1796, and after the retreat of Moreau defended Kehl against the Austrians for two months; accompanied Bonaparte to the East, and in 1799 conquered Upper Egypt; contributed effectively to the success at Marengo, and fell dead at the moment of victory, shot by a musket-ball; he was an upright and a chivalrous man, known in Egypt as "the just Sultan," and in Germany as "the good general" (1768-1800).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Desaix, Louis Charles Antoine'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/desaix-louis-charles-antoine.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Desaix, Louis Charles Antoine'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/desaix-louis-charles-antoine.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
