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General Comte Richard Debaufre Guyon

Male 1813 - 1856  (43 years)    Has 97 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.

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    Name Richard Debaufre Guyon 
    Prefix General Comte 
    Birth 31 Mar 1813  5, Lower East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Sommerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 11 Oct 1856  Scutari Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 15 Oct 1856  Haydarpasa Cemetery, IstanbulTürkiye Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Battle (10) Click the arrow on the left to show/hide these 10 events. 
    Siblings 5 Siblings 
    Person ID I41112  Geneagraphie
    Links To This person is also Richard Guyon at Wikipedia 
    Links To This person is also Guyon, Richard Debaufre at Wikisource 
    Last Modified 24 May 2017 

    Father Commander John Guyon,   b. 16 Jun 1767   d. 15 Jan 1844, Richmond, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Debaufre,   b. 13 Feb 1785   d. 2 Aug 1863, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 7 Jun 1804 
    Family ID F19353  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Baronesse Mary Splényi de Miháldi   d. 1867-1871, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Nov 1838  Košice Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Victor Guyon,   b. 1841   d. 1862, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 21 years)
     2. Mary Ann Guyon   d. Aft 1867
     3. Comte Edgar Joseph-Richard de Guyon de Geis,   b. 1848, Csatta, Magyarország Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1930, Budapest, Magyarország Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F19132  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2013 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 31 Mar 1813 - 5, Lower East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Sommerset, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAddress - fought in Portugal against Dom Miguel (1828) - 1828 - Portugal Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAddress - Headquarters of the 2nd regiment of Hussars during peacetime - 1832 - Nagy-Enyed, Magyarország Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Nov 1838 - Košice Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAddress - Soon after his marriage, he retired to an estate near Pesth, the vicinity of his wife's friends and relatives, where he occupied his leisure after the manner of a Coventry gentleman, in cultivating his property, in hunting the wolf and the wild boar. - Dec 1838 - Pest, Magyarország Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBattle - an army of 50.000 men, led by Jellachich, the Ban of Croatia, invaded Hungary and were beaten by an ill- armed medley of men, forming a corps of some 15,000, assembled a few miles from Buda-Pesth - 29 Sep 1848 - Sukoro Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBattle - At the head of his battalion he three times repulsed the Serezans of Jellachich, and his horse being shot under him, he seized his pistols and led his men to the charge on foot He was made a colonel on the field - 30 Oct 1848 - Schwechat Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBattle - Gorgey meanwhile marched his forces in three columns from Pesth to upper Hungary, while Guyon commanded the rear. - 12 Dec 1848 - Tyrnau Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBattle - These operations on parallel lines of advance and retreat, it seems, offer a difficulty in defining, but Guyon, by a skilful and certainly heroic effort covered the whole baggage and saved it from the pursuing Austrians. - 10 Jan 1849 - Ipolysag Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBattle - On the 2nd of February, General Schlick's advanced guard made a descent upon Colonel Guyon, who had established himself with some haste at Iglo - 02 Feb 1849 - Igló Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBattle - Guyon, and his brave Magyars, not 10,000 in number, stood in the valley; while 25,000 picked imperialists waited in watchfulness for the moment which was to behold the calculated extermination of the audacious insurgents that he led. The contest was furious, but decisive, and the Austrians were driven in disorder, and with great slaughter, over the main ridge - 05 Feb 1849 - Branyiszko Pass Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBattle - Guyon commanded a division of Dembinski's force - 26 Feb 1849 - Kapolna Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBattle - having hunted the country in the neighbourhood of Komorn he knew the scenery well which enabled him to post his troops advantageously; on which occasion, so glorious for the Hungarian tricolor, General Guyon commanded in chief, with 24,000 men and 80 pieces of cannon. The Austrian general was driven from his position, and, dividing his army into two divisions to escape pursuit, it was cut to pieces, the enemy leaving 4000 dead on the field - 11 Jul 1849 - Komorn Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAddress - Sep-Oct 1849 - Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAddress - He was directed to proceed from Damascus, with all dispatch, to the army of Anatolia and reached Kars, shortly after the Turkish forces had sustained a defeat at Soobaltan - Nov 1853 - Kars, Anatolia, Türkiye Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBattle - Guyon was doomed to experience unjust and ungenerous treatment from the authorities at Stamboul. All future command was denied the general, who was placed upon halfpay - 16 Aug 1854 - Kurekdere Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 11 Oct 1856 - Scutari Link to Google Earth
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    • Comte de Guyon

      Resigned imperial-royal first lieutenant;
      honved general in the War of Independence;
      division general of the Upper Danubian Army Corps;
      commander of the Komarom fort;
      commander of the 4th Army Corps. Emigrated.
      Converted to Islam in Turkey. (In his biography is stated that he was not converted as some others but stayed protestant)
    • From Jozsef J. Szabo, a teacher in Military history in Hungary:

      RICHARD GUYON, was a General in the war for freedom in Hungary (1848-1849). He was born in England, in the town BATH. He died in 1856 in Konstantinople. As a young man he already fought in Portugal against Dom Miguel (1828). In 1832 he joined the Austrian army. In 1839 he left Austria as a high-lieutnant and moved to Hungary. In the war for freedom he joined the Honved-army. He started as a commander of a bataillon and 5 februar he was appointed commander of a division. In a hard and famous battle he captured with his division the pass of Branyiszko which is in nowadays in Slovakia. The 1st of July 1849 he was appointed commander of the army and he captured the town Arad. After the revolt was crushed general Guyon fled to Turkey where he joined the Turkish army. His name in Turkey was "pascha Urschid". He was appointed commander of Damaskus and crushed in 1850 the revolt of Aleppo.
    • Roland Guion
      He joined the Austrian army in the 2nd regiment of Hussars.
      He was chief of staff of the Turkish army allied to Britain in the Crimean war. In 1839 he was granted the use of the title Compte de Guyon. A street in Budapest is named after him and his medals and sword are in the military museum there.
    • The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
      Born 1803 (?) near Bath in England.
      Trained in England - commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Hussars 1823 (?)
      Joined the Honvédség as a general in 1848.
      Fought with distinction in the Szabadságharc 1848/1849.
      Fled to Turkey and joined Turkish army as pasha in 1852.
      Fought in Turco-Russian war 1854-55.
      Died of cholera in Scutari 1856.
    • The tricolor of Hungary
      From Bennett, W. C. (William Cox), "The Tricolor.
      A Cry for European Freedom. 1855.

      "Gagged and fettered by cowl and crown,
      Hungary crouches, Cossacked down:
      Pesth, how long will it be before
      Your walls shall fling out the Tricolor?
      Kossuth watches and waits afar;
      In the leash are Honved and fierce hussar
      Guyon, the Austrian squares, once more
      Will thunder through, with the Tricolor."
    • House where Richard was born




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