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1753 – 1823Lazare Carnot (1753-1823)Died 2 August 1823, aged 70Lazare Carnot was a French mathematician, military engineer, and revolutionary statesman known as the "Organizer of Victory" for reorganizing French armies during the Revolutionary Wars. He later served briefly as Napoleon's Minister of War and defended Antwerp in 1814. He died in exile in Magdeburg after the Bourbon Restoration banished him.