Count Dunin-Wonsowicz

Count Dunin-Wonsowicz was the Lithuanian Captain of the 1st Polish Lancers and Napoleon's bodyguard and aide-de-camp during his 1812 Russian Campaign. On December 5, 1812, with Napoleon's troops in disarray and freezing temperatures taking a heavy toll, Napoleon abandoned his Grand Army at Smorgonie (Russia) and retreated to Paris. Napoleon was accompanied only by a Mameluke bodyguard and Captain (Count) Dunin-Wonsowicz. Napoleon ordered that he should never be allowed to be captured alive and handed Count Dunin-Wonsowicz a set of pistols. [ [http://www.lituanus.org/1984_1/84_1_01.htm Napoleon's Lithuanian Forces ] ]

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* [http://www.lituanus.org/1984_1/84_1_01.htm Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences]