François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (born 1774)

François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo

French general

François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo 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…