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Jean-Marie De Villeneuve Cillart
Jean-Marie de Villeneuve Cillart was a French Navy officer. He served in the War of American Independence. Biography Cillart was born in an aristocratic family. His father was captain in a dragoon unit, and two of his brothers, Étienne-François de Cillart de Villeneuve and Armand-François Cillart de Suville, also served in the Navy. Cillart joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine on 19 March 1756. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 October 1773, and to Captain on 4 April 1780, effective 9 May 1781. Cillart captained the frigate 32-gun frigate ''Surveillante'', part of the Expédition Particulière under Admiral Ternay, composed of 7 ships of the line, 3 frigates and 36 transports. ''Surveillante'', as vanguard of the squadron, arrived at Boston on 11 June 1780. From then on, ''Surveillante'' was attached to the Ternay's squadron as part of a frigate division Cillart, with his flag on ''Surveillante'', and also comprising ''Amazone'' and ''Hermione'', which had been at Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of American Independence
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of the United States, fighting began on April 19, 1775, followed by the Lee Resolution on July 2, 1776, and the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The American Patriot (American Revolution), Patriots were supported by the Kingdom of France and, to a lesser extent, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Empire, in a conflict taking place in North America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean. Established by royal charter in the 17th and 18th centuries, the American colonies were largely autonomous in domestic affairs and commercially prosperous, trading with Britain and its British West Indies, Caribbean colonies, as well as other European powers via their Caribbean entrepôts. After British vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-André-Joseph De Lombard
Louis-André-Joseph de Lombard was a French Navy officer. He served in the War of American Independence. Biography Lombard was born to the family of a Council of the Parliament of Bordeaux. He joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine on 17 September 1751. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 October 1764. In 1770, he took command of the 14-gun fluyt ''Barbue'', at Rochefort. He commissioned her an Ile d'Aix in January 1771. She was wrecked in December 1771 at Penmarch. In 1773, Lombard commanded the 16-gun corvette ''Perle''. In 1777, he commanded ship ''Courtier'' at Rochefort. He was promoted to Captain on 4 April 1777. In 1779, he captained the frigate ''Terpsichore'', first around Ile de Ré, Ile d'Aix and Brest, and then part of the squadron under Orvilliers. He was later promoted to the command of the 64-gun ''Provence'', which he commanded at the Battle of Cape Henry on 16 March 1781. Lombard was a Knight in the Order of Saint Louis and a member of the Society of the Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Ulysses (1779)
HMS ''Ulysses'' was a 48-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. Commissioned in 1779, her principal active service was in the Caribbean, interspersed with periods as a troopship and storeship. She was decommissioned and sold at Sheerness Dockyard in 1815.Winfield 2007, pp. 176178 Career On 2 June 1781, ''Ulysses'' encountered the 32-gun ''Fée'', under Captain de Boubée. The ships broke contact after a brief battle. On 5 June, ''Ulysses'' chased the 32-gun ''Surveillante'', under Jean-Marie de Villeneuve Cillart Jean-Marie de Villeneuve Cillart was a French Navy officer. He served in the War of American Independence. Biography Cillart was born in an aristocratic family. His father was captain in a dragoon unit, and two of his brothers, Étienne-Fran ..., off Saint-Domingue. Around 2130, ''Ulysses'' caught up with ''Surveillante'', and a 2-hour and a half-battle ensued, after which the frigates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue () was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1804. The name derives from the Spanish main city in the island, Santo Domingo, which came to refer specifically to the Spanish-held Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, now the Dominican Republic. The borders between the two were fluid and changed over time until they were finally solidified in the Dominican War of Independence in 1844. The French had established themselves on the western portion of the islands of Hispaniola and Tortuga by 1659. In the Treaty of Ryswick of 1697, Spain formally recognized French control of Tortuga Island and the western third of the island of Hispaniola. In 1791, slaves and some Dominican Creoles took part in the Vodou ceremony Bois Caïman and planned the Haitian Revolution. The slave rebellion later allied with Republican French forces following the abolition of slavery in the colony in 1793, althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Cape Henry
The Battle of Cape Henry was a naval battle in the American War of Independence which took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 16 March 1781 between a British squadron led by Vice Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot and a French fleet under Admiral Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches. Destouches, based in Newport, Rhode Island, had sailed for the Chesapeake as part of a joint operation with the Continental Army to oppose the British army of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold that was active in Virginia. Destouches was asked by General George Washington to take his fleet to the Chesapeake to support military operations against Arnold by the Marquis de Lafayette. Sailing on 8 March, he was followed two days later by Admiral Arbuthnot, who sailed from eastern Long Island. Arbuthnot's fleet outsailed that of Destouches, reaching the Virginia Capes just ahead of Destouches on 16 March. After manoeuvring for several hours, the battle was joined, and both fleets suffer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Hermione (1779)
''Hermione'' was a 32-gun of the French Navy. Designed for speed, she was one of the first ships of the French Navy to receive a copper sheathing. At the beginning of the Anglo-French War of 1778, she patrolled in the Bay of Biscay, escorting convoys and chasing privateers. She became famous when she ferried General La Fayette to the United States in 1780 in support of the rebels in the American Revolutionary War. She took an incidental role in the Battle of Cape Henry on 16 March 1781, and a major one in the action of 21 July 1781. ''Hermione'' grounded and was wrecked in 1793. In 1997, construction of a replica ship started in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France; the new ship is likewise named . Construction Construction of ''Hermione'' started in December 1778 at Rochefort, under Chevillard brothers. She was launched on 28 April 1779, and commissioned on 11 May, with 5 month worth of food and 66 barrels of fresh water, under Lieutenant Latouche-Tréville Shortage of ade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Bellone (1778)
''Bellone'' was an 32-gun frigate of the French Navy on plans by Léon-Michel Guignace. She took part in the American Revolutionary War in the Indian Ocean with the squadron under Suffren, and later in the French Revolutionary Wars. She was present at the Glorious First of June. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1798 and commissioned her as HMS ''Proserpine''. She never went to sea and was broken up in 1806. French service In January 1780, ''Bellone'' received copper sheathing. Operations off America On 2 May 1780, she departed Brest with the 7-ship and 3-frigate Expédition Particulière under Admiral Ternay, escorting 36 transports carrying troops to support the Continental Army in the War of American Independence. The squadron comprised the 80-gun ''Duc de Bourgogne'', under Ternay d'Arsac (admiral) and Médine (flag captain); the 74-gun ''Neptune'', under Sochet Des Touches, and ''Conquérant'', under La Grandière; and the 64-gun ''Provence'' under Lom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François De Galaup, Comte De Lapérouse
Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (; variant spelling: ''La Pérouse''; 23 August 17411788?), often called simply Lapérouse, was a French naval officer and explorer. Having enlisted at the age of 15, he had a successful naval career and in 1785 was appointed to lead a scientific expedition around the world. His ships stopped in Chile, Hawaii, Alaska, California, Mauritius, Reunion, Macau, Japan, Russia, and Australia, before wrecking on the reefs of Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands. Early career Jean-François de Galaup was born near Albi, France. His family was ennobled in 1558. Lapérouse studied in a Jesuit college, and joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine in Brest on 19 November 1756. In 1757 he was appointed to the French ship ''Célèbre'' and participated in a supply expedition to the fort of Louisbourg in New France. Lapérouse also took part in a second supply expedition in 1758 to Louisbourg, but as this was in the early years of the Seven Years' War, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Amazone (1778)
''Amazone'' was a 32-gun ''Iphigénie''-class frigate of the French Navy. She was the second ship of the French Navy to receive a copper sheathing in 1778. She served in the War of American Independence under Captain Lapérouse, and later in the French Revolutionary Wars. Career ''Amazone'' was commissioned in July 1778, in time for the Anglo-French War that had broken out in June. She took part in the War of American Independence under Captain Lapérouse, and constituted the vanguard of the French squadron that came to support the Continental Army, arriving at Boston on 11 June 1780. On 7 October 1779, ''Amazone'' captured the 20-gun HMS ''Ariel''. On 2 May 1780, she departed Brest with the 7-ship and 3-frigate Expédition Particulière under Admiral Ternay, escorting 36 transports carrying troops to support the Continental Army in the War of American Independence. The squadron comprised the 80-gun ''Duc de Bourgogne'', under Ternay d'Arsac (admiral) and Médine (flag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Le Gardeur De Tilly
Armand Le Gardeur de Tilly (Rochefort, 14 January 1733 — La Salle, near Champagne, Charente-Maritime, 1 January 1812) was a French Navy officer. He served in the War of American Independence. Biography Le Gardeur de Tilly was the first son born to the family of a Navy captain. He joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine on 6 July 1750. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 May 1763. Le Gardeur was promoted to Captain on 24 October 1778. That same year, he was in command of the frigate ''Concorde''. On 21 August, he captured the British frigate HMS ''Minerva''. His younger brother, also a Navy officer serving on ''Concorde'', was killed in the action. The action was celebrated to the point that the Navy Minister commissioned a painting of the battle. On 18 February 1779, ''Concorde'' encountered a 32-gun British frigate, that she fought for three hours before the ships disengaged. Le Gardeur de Tilly was wounded in the action. In early 1781, Des Touches gave Le Gardeur command of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Éveillé (1752)
''Éveillé'' was a 2-deck 64-gun ship of the French Navy, laid down by A. Groignard in 1751 and launched at Rochefort in 1752. She was part of a naval shipbuilding boom between the end of the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748 and the start of the Seven Years' War The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict that involved most of the European Great Powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. Other concurrent conflicts include the French and Indian War (1754†... in 1755. She took part in several battles before being paid off in 1771. Career In 1762, ''Éveillé'' was a Newfoundland under Captain Monteil. Notes, citations, and references Notes Citations Bibliography * * * * (1671-1870) External links ''French Third Rate ship of the line Eveillé (1752)''oThree Decks – Warships in the Age of Sail*''Vaisseaux de ligne français de 1682 à 1780'' list by Ronald Deschênes oagh Ships of the line of the Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Isaac Chadeau De La Clocheterie
Jean Isaac Timothée Chadeau, Sieur de la Clocheterie (1741–1782) was a French naval officer of the American Revolutionary War. Biography Early career Chadeau de la Clocheterie entered the French naval service in 1754, at the age of thirteen, as an ''élève de la marine''. He became an ensign in 1757 and served in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). On 2 November 1758 he was made a prisoner of war at the capture of the '' Belliqueux'', returning to France in April 1759. In 1768 he was stationed at Mauritius. There he met the botanist Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, who described him as "a young man, with a dashing figure, very modest, who hardly spoke and was devoted to his duties". In 1775 he was made a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis. ''Belle Poule'' As Lieutenant commanding the frigate '' Belle Poule'', La Clocheterie fought the action of 17 June 1778 against HMS ''Arethusa'', the ''casus belli'' that precipitated the French entry into the American Revolut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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