Claude Carra Saint-Cyr

Claude Carra Saint-Cyr
General Count Carra Saint-Cyr.
Born	28 July 1760(1760-07-28) Lyon, France
Died	5 January 1834(1834-01-05) (aged 73) Vailly-sur-Aisne, France
Allegiance	France
Service/branch	Infantry
Years of service	1774-1814
Rank	General of Division
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars
Awards	Baron of the Empire, Count
Other work	Governor of Guiana

Claude Carra Saint-Cyr (born 28 July 1760 in Lyon, died 5 January 1834 in Vailly-sur-Aisne) was a French general and diplomat, noted for his participation to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.^[1]

Carra Saint-Cyr entered active service in 1774, with the Bourdonnais regiment, and was a part of the French expeditionary corps during the American War of Independence. He was a captain and held a position in the military commissariat. With the outbreak of the Wars of the Revolution, Carra Saint-Cyr resumed active duty, serving in the army of the West as aide-de-camp to general Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet, subsequently accompanying Aubert du Bayet to Constantinopole, where the latter was appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carra Saint-Cyr then served as consul in Wallachia, before returning to France, in 1798. He was at Marengo in 1800 and became a general of division in 1803. Named governor of Magdeburg in 1806, he was created baron of the Empire two years later and in 1809 he held the command of an infantry division during the War of the Fifth Coalition, playing an important role at the battle of Aspern-Essling. He was named governor of Dresden and in 1813 governor of Hamburg and in this capacity evacuated the city with his troops and was defeated on the Elba. For this, he was disgraced, but general Dominique Vandamme still gave him the command of a division, with the mission of defending the Ems river. With the Bourbon Restoration of 1814, Carra Saint-Cyr was created count and named governor of the French Guiana, a position that he would hold from 1814 to 1819. His name appears on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Fierro; Palluel-Guillard; Tulard, p. 595.

Sources

• Fierro, Alfredo; Palluel-Guillard, André; Tulard, Jean - "Histoire et Dictionnaire du Consulat et de l'Empire”, Éditions Robert Laffont, ISBN 2-221-05858-5

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Name	Carra Saint-Cyr, Claude
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Date of birth	28 July 1760
Place of birth	Lyon, France
Date of death	5 January 1834
Place of death	Vailly-sur-Aisne, France