Louis Michel Antoine Sahuc

Louis-Michel-Antoine Sahuc
General Louis-Michel-Antoine Sahuc
Born	7 January 1755 (1755-01-07) Mello, Oise, France
Died	24 October 1813 (1813-10-25) (aged 58) Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Germany
Allegiance	France
Service/branch	Cavalry
Years of service	1772-1813
Rank	General of Division
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars
Awards	Légion d'Honneur Count of the Empire
Other work	Corps législatif

Louis-Michel-Antoine Sahuc, born 7 January 1755 – died 24 October 1813, joined the French Royal Army and spent 20 years there before fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars. He rose to command a French cavalry regiment and later became a general officer. During the Napoleonic Wars he held important cavalry commands in three of Emperor Napoleon I of France's wars.

In the early years of the French Revolution Sahuc was appointed to lead a Chasseurs à Cheval regiment and later commanded a brigade. Under Napoleon, he commanded a cavalry brigade in the 1805 campaign. During the 1806-7 campaign he led a dragoon division. In 1809, he directed a light cavalry division in Italy and at the Battle of Wagram. For a few years afterward he served as a lawmaker but was recalled up to military duty. He died in the 1813 typhus epidemic in Germany. Sahuc is one of the Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

Sahuc was born on 7 January 1755 at Mello, Oise in France and joined the army of the Old Regime in 1772. At the beginning of the French Revolution he became an officer in the Army of the North. Later he transferred to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and was appointed Chef de brigade (colonel) of the 1st Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment on 10 July 1794. He became a general of brigade on 21 April 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition. He fought at the on 3 May 1800.