serviceyears branch commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards relatives battles birth_date nickname rank image article_title name
1791 - 1800 1816 - 1830 cavalry and infantry armée royale de rennes et de fougères 25 october 1839 paris fougères kingdom france 1814 kingdom of france of france association bretonne kingdom of france chouan chevalier de saint-louis commander of the légion d'honneur brothers boisguy oncle : toussaint-guillaume picquet de la motte brother-in-law : : toussaint du breil de pontbriand louis picquet du boisguy guy picquet du chouannerie of entrames battle of fougères siege of granville siege of war angers battle of le mans battle of argentré first battle in of saint-james battle of le rocher de la piochais battle the of saint-hilaire-des-landes battle of valennes battle of maisonneuve second battle vendée of saint-james battle of les tombettes virée de galerne battle 15 march 1776 '' le petit général '' maréchal de camp boisguy.jpg aimé picquet du boisguy
 aimé picquet du boisguy
aimé picquet du boisguy

aimé casimir marie picquet , chevalier du boisguy , sometimes spelt bois-guy , -lrb- 15 march 1776 , fougères , ille-et-vilaine - 25 october 1839 , paris -rrb- was a french chouan general during the french revolution .
he was nicknamed `` the little general '' by his men due to his youth .
still a child at the outbreak of the revolution , he signalled his precocity to fight on the royalist side , joining the association bretonne at 15 and becoming aide de camp to la rouërie .
at 17 he was made leader of the chouannerie in the pays de fougères , and a general at 19 .
boisguy made the north-east of the ille-et-vilaine one of the most active areas of the breton chouannerie , and showed himself an excellent tactician .
rarely beaten , the chouans there were among the best organised and best disciplined .
fighting in uniform from the end of 1795 and made up of elite troops , even so they suffered from a lack of cavalry and a near-total lack of artillery .
the republicans had to raise major forces to defeat them , and then only with difficulty .
in both 1796 and 1800 , boisguy was the last general to surrender , making him one of the main figures of the chouannerie .
