Charles Antoine Dominique Xaintrailles | |
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| Born | 17 January 1769 Wesel, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | 13 May 1833 (aged 64) Paris, France |
| Allegiance |  Kingdom of France .svg){kind=small} Kingdom of France French Republic |
| Service | artillery |
| Years of service | 1779–1783;1792–1803; 1814–1814. |
| Rank | general of division |
Charles Antoine Dominique Xaintrailles, also called Anointe-Charles-Dominique de Lauthier de Chabanon Xaintrailles, (17 January 1769–1833) was a general in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
As a young man, he fought in the West Indies; upon the dissolution of his regiment, he served as a mercenary in several armies of northern Europe. While in Nassau, he developed a liaison with Marie-Henriette Heinikein, of Berlin, who joined him on his travels as his aide de camp. He returned to French service in 1792, and served in several campaigns on the Rhine, and in Switzerland. He avoided execution in 1793, when charged with treason and misconduct by the representatives on mission.
In Switzerland in 1799, he suppressed the Valais uprising and captured the Valais border posts with northern Italy. Placed on trial a second time, this for peculation, he again faced a courts-martial, in which he was acquitted. He retired from the army in 1804, but returned briefly in 1813. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Leipzig, and died in 1833 in poverty.