Person

Eugène-Guillaume Argenteau

Austrain general

b. 1743 CE – d. 1819 CE World The Great Crossroads

Eugène-Guillaume Argenteau, comte de Mercy or Eugen Gillis Wilhelm Graf Mercy d'Argenteau (1743 – May 4, 1819) joins the Austrian army in 1760, becomes a general officer, and leads large formations of soldiers in several actions during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.