Stanisław Dunin-Wąsowicz



Count Stanisław Dunin-Wąsowicz (1785 - zm. 1864 Paris) was the Lithuanian Captain of the 1st Polish Lancers and Napoleon's bodyguard and aide-de-camp during his 1812 Russian Campaign. On December 5, 1812, with Napoleon's troops in disarray and freezing temperatures taking a heavy toll, Napoleon abandoned his Grand Army at Smarhon (then in the Russian Empire, now in Belarus) and retreated to Paris. Napoleon was accompanied only by a Mameluke bodyguard and Captain (Count) Dunin-Wąsowicz. Napoleon ordered that he should never be allowed to be captured alive and handed Count Dunin-Wąsowicz a set of pistols.