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François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo
1838Jun, 25

François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo

François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (b. 1774)
François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo (24 June 1774 – 25 June 1838) was a French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Haxo became famous in the Siege of Antwerp in 1832. He is the nephew of revolution era General Nicolas Haxo of Étival-Clairefontaine and Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in Lorraine, France.

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