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Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand
Military Person
1762 – 1815
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Who was Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand?
Claude Just Alexandre Louis Legrand was a French general. He commanded French divisions at several notable battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He rose to senator on 5 April 1813, then Pair de France on 4 June 1814 and chevalier de Saint-Louis on 27 June 1814. He organised the defence of Chalon-sur-Saône in 1814 and died in Paris in 1815 of wounds received beside the River Berezina.
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- Born
- Feb 23, 1762
Le Plessier-sur-Saint-Just - Also known as
- Claude Legrand
- Died
- Jan 8, 1815
Paris - Resting place
- Panthéon, Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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