Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty
| Étienne-Marie-Antoine Champion de Nansouty | |
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General Count Nansouty
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| Born |
30 May 1768 Bordeaux, France |
| Died | 12 February 1815 (aged 46) Paris, France |
| Buried at | Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris |
| Allegiance |
 Kingdom of France Kingdom of the French French First Republic First French Empire Bourbon Restoration
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| Service/branch | Cavalry |
| Years of service | 1785–1814 |
| Rank | General of Division |
| Commands held | 9th Cavalry Regt (1793-1799), 8th and 9th Cavalry Regts (1799-1800), 15th Cavalry, 11th Dragoon and 12th Chasseur Regts (1800), 1st Heavy Cavalry Division (1804-1807, 1809), I Cavalry Corps (1812), Guard Cavalry (1813-1814). |
| Battles/wars |
French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars |
| Awards | Count de Nansouty and of the Empire, Légion d'honneur (Commander, then Grand Officer, then Grand Eagle), Order of Saint Louis (Knight), Order of Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel (Knight), Royal Order of the Golden Eagle of Württemberg (Grand Cross), Name inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe. |
| Other work | Chamberlain of the Empress, First Squire of the Emperor, General Inspector of Cavalry, Colonel-General of Dragoons, General Inspector of Dragoons, Lt.-General of the King's Armies, Captain-Lt. of the 1st company of Musketeers of the King's Guard, Aide-de-camp to Comte d'Artois |
Count Étienne-Marie-Antoine Champion de Nansouty (30 May 1768 – 12 February 1815) was a French cavalry commander during the French Revolutionary Wars who rose to the rank of General of Division in 1803 and subsequently held important military commands during the Napoleonic Wars.
Of noble Burgundian descent, he was a student at the Brienne military school, then was a graduate of the Paris military school. Nansouty began his military career in 1785, as a sub-lieutenant in the regiment Bourgogne-Infanterie, where his father had served during the wars of Louis XV. A cavalry officer at the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1792, Nansouty was commissioned as an aide-de-camp to Marshal Nicolas Luckner. During the First Coalition, he saw service as a lieutenant-colonel and squadron commander in the 9th (heavy) Cavalry Regiment, campaigning with the French armies on the Rhine and in Germany. Promoted to Colonel in 1793 and given the command of the 9th Cavalry, he was noted for several well-led cavalry actions. Finally made a Brigadier General in 1799, after he had refused the promotion several times in the past, Nansouty fought the next year under General Jean Victor Moreau in southern Germany, in a decisive campaign of the Second Coalition.
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