Louis Michel Antoine Sahuc
Military leader
Died when: 58 years 290 days (705 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Louis-Michel-Antoine, comte Sahuc (French pronunciation: [lwi miʃɛl ɑ̃twan kɔ̃t də sayk]), was a French army general born 7 January 1755 – died 24 October 1813, joined the French Royal Army and spent 20 years there before fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars.
He rose to command a French cavalry regiment and later became a general officer.During the Napoleonic Wars he held important cavalry commands in three of Emperor Napoleon I of France's wars.
In the early years of the French Revolution Sahuc was appointed to lead a Chasseurs à Cheval regiment and later commanded a brigade.
Under Napoleon, he commanded a cavalry brigade in the 1805 campaign.During the 1806-7 campaign he led a dragoon division.In 1809, he directed a light cavalry division in Italy and at the Battle of Wagram.
For a few years afterward he served as a lawmaker but was recalled up to military duty.He died in the 1813 typhus epidemic in Germany.
Sahuc is one of the Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.
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