GUYON, RICHARD DEBAUFRE British soldier, general in the Hungarian revolutionary army and Turkish pasha, was born at Walcot, near Bath, in 1803. After receiving a military education in England and in Austria he entered the Hun garian hussars in 1823. At the outbreak of the Hungarian War in 1848, he re-entered active service as an officer of the Hun garian Honveds, and he won great distinction in the action of Sukoro (Sept. 29, 1848) and the battle of Schwechat (Oct. 3o). He served in important and sometimes independent commands to the end of the war, after which he escaped to Turkey. In 1852 he entered the service of the sultan. He was made a pasha and lieutenant-general without being required to change his faith, and fought in the campaign against the Russians in Asia Minor General Guyon died of cholera at Scutari on Oct.
12, 1856.
See A. W. Kinglake, The Patriot and the Hero General Guyon (1856).