Richard de Beaufré comte de Guyon (1813 – 12 October 1856) was a British-born Hungarian soldier, general in the Hungarian revolutionary army and Turkish

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(Kurshid Pasha).

Biography

Early life

He was born at Walcot, near Bath, Somerset,Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition the son of Commander John Guyon RN (1767-1844), a shipmate and friend of the

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), and descended from a French noble family. After receiving a military education in England, Guyon fought against Dom Miguel in the

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in Portugal. In 1832 Guyon entered the Austrian service joining the Hungarian Hussars; and was attached as aide-de-camp to General Baron Ignác Splényi (1772-1840), who had served at the

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and was captain-in-chief of the Hungarian noble bodyguard, and Standard Bearer of Hungary. Guyon married Baron Spl