Claude-Pierre, Comte de Pajol (3 February 1772 – 20 March 1844), was a French cavalry general and political during and after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Early life He was born in Besançon, as the son of a lawyer. He was intended to follow his father's profession, but the events of 1789 led him to join the battalion of Besançon, where he took part in the political events of that year. Revolution In 1791 he joined the French Revolutionary Army of the Upper Rhine with a volunteer battalion. He took part in the campaign of 1792 and was one of the stormers at Hochheim (1793). From the Count of Custine's staff he was transferred to that of Jean-Baptiste Kléber, with whom he took part in the Sambre and Rhine campaigns (1794–96). After serving with Louis Lazare Hoche and André Masséna]] in Germany and [[Switzerland (1797–99), Pajol took a cavalry command under Jean Victor Marie Moreau for the campaign on the upper Rhine. First Empire In the short years of peace Pajol, now colonel, successively served as envoy to the Batavian Republic, and delegate at Napoleon's coronation (the start of the First French Empire). In 1805, the emperor employed him with the light cavalry. He distinguished himself at the battle of Austerlitz, and, after serving for a short time in the Italian Peninsula, he rejoined the Grande Armée as a general of brigade, in time to take part in the campaign of Friedland. The next year (1808) he was made a Baron d'Empire. In 1809 he served on the Danube, and in the Russian War of 1812 led a division, and afterwards a corps, of cavalry. He survived retreat, but his health was so broken that he retired to his native town of Besançon for a time. He was back again in active service, however, in time to be present at the battle of Dresden, in which he played a conspicuous part. Again wounded in the battle of Leipzig, Pajol was created a count of the Empire on 25 November 1813. In 1814 he fought in the Six Days' Campaign, commanding a corps of all arms in the Seine Valley. On the fall of Napoleon, Pajol gave his allegiance to the Restoration government, but he rejoined the Emperor immediately upon his return to France. The 1st Cavalry Corps (1er corps de cavalerie) under his leadership played a prominent part in