Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand
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Claude Juste Alexandre Louis Legrand was a French general. He commanded French divisions at several notable battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including Austerlitz, where his division, as part of the IV Corps, repelled a huge Coalition, mainly Russian, onslaught.
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Claude Juste Alexandre Louis Legrand was a French general. He commanded French divisions at several notable battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including Austerlitz, where his division, as part of the IV Corps, repelled a huge Coalition, mainly Russian, onslaught. Napoléon made him a Count of the Empire in 1808. 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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