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Marie-Antoine, vicomte de Reiset (29 November 1775 - 25 March 1836) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, serving from 1793 to 1830. He was born in

Colmar Colmar (, ; Alsatian: ' ; German during 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: ') is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is ...

into a noble family, the seventh of seventeen children. He captured Prince Augustus of Prussia at the

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in 1806 and commanded the 13th Dragoon Regiment from 1810 to 1813, including its major part in defeating the Duke of Wellington's vanguard at the Battle of Majadahonda. He forced several regiments to surrender at Dresden in 1813, defended the fortress of Mainz and commanded the French army of occupation in Catalonia. He died in

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...

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