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Louis-Léonce Trullet
Louis-Léonce Trullet (Saint-Tropez, 6 October 1756 – Toulon, 1 February 1827) was a French Navy officer. Biography Born to a family of sailors, and younger brother of Jean-François-Timothée Trullet, Louis-Léonce Trullet joined the Navy as a cabin boy on ''Séduisant'' in 1768. He served as a sailor on a number of ships before rising to helmsman in 1775. From July 1776, he served as a lieutenant on a merchantman and rose in rank until captaining ships by 1784. In September 1793, Trullet was tasked by the French ambassador in Constantinople with ferrying despatches to France. Arriving at Fort de Brégançon, his ship was intercepted by the British, but he managed to repulse them and secure the documents. In recognition of his behaviour, he was promoted to captain in January 1794. In 1797, Trullet commanded the ''Guillaume Tell'' and later the ''Conquérant'', and in 1798, the ''Peuple Souverain'' and later the ''Timoléon''. On ''Timoléon'', Trullet took part in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François-Timothée Trullet
Jean-François-Timothée Trullet (15 April 1755 in Saint Tropez – 27 May 1819 in Toulon Toulon (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Tolon , , ) is a city on the French Riviera and a large port on the Mediterranean coast, with a major naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, and the Provence province, Toulon is th ...) was a French Navy officer. Biography Born to a family of sailors, and elder brother of Louis-Léonce Trullet, Jean-François-Timothée Trullet joined the Navy as a cabin boy in 1770, before sailing on a merchantman captained by his father. He was appointed commerce captain in 1777. In 1779, he joined the French Royal Navy as an auxiliary ensign and served off Arabia By 1792, Trullet had risen to ensign and served on ''Tonnant''. Promoted to lieutenant in July, he took command of an aviso. From February 1793, he served on the ''Heureux''. In May 1795, Trullet received a temporary promotion to captain and was appointed second captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Séduisant (1783)
''Séduisant'' was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was renamed ''Pelletier'' on 30 September 1793, in honour of Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau. Under Savary, she was one of the last ships of the line at the Glorious First of June. On 30 May 1795 her name was changed back to ''Séduisant''. She sank accidentally on 16 December 1796 while leaving Brest for the Expédition d'Irlande The French expedition to Ireland, known in French as the ''Expédition d'Irlande'' ("Expedition to Ireland"), was an unsuccessful attempt by the French Republic to assist the outlawed Society of United Irishmen, a popular rebel Irish republica .... Out of 600 crew and 610 soldiers, only 60 survived. Other sources speak of 650–680 survivors. The wreck was rediscovered in 1986. Notes Citations References *Demerliac, Cmdt. Alain, ''Nomenclature des navires français de 1774 a 1792''. Editions ANCRE, Nice. *Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort De Brégançon
The Fort de Brégançon (; English: ''Brégançon Fort'') is a medieval fortress, located above sea level on an islet off the French Riviera, connected by a short causeway to the mainland, in the Communes of France, commune of Bormes-les-Mimosas, Var (department), Var Departments of France, department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It has been the official retreat of the President of France, President of the French Republic since 1968. History The island has long been occupied, due in part to its easily defended nature, and that it allows easy view of the sea access to Hyères and Toulon. The island was the site of a Ligures, Ligurian oppidum in the 6th century BCE. In the eleventh century, the territory belonged to the Viscount of Marseille, lieutenants of the Count of Provence, who sold it to the Community of Marseille. In 1257, following the marriage of heiress Beatrice of Provence, with Charles I of Anjou who was the brother of Louis IX of France, King Louis IX, the isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Malta (1800)
HMS ''Malta'' was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously served with the French Navy as the , but was captured in the Mediterranean in 1800 by a British squadron enforcing the blockade of French-occupied Malta. Having served the French for less than four years from her completion in July 1796 to her capture in March 1800, she would eventually serve the British for forty years. ''Guillaume Tell'' took part in the Battle of the Nile, but formed part of the rear of the French fleet and saw little action. She became one of only two French ships of the line to escape the destruction of the fleet, and took refuge at Malta. She was trapped there by the British blockade, and as the island began to fall to the British, she attempted to escape. She was spotted by a patrolling British frigate and attacked, with nearby British ships of the line joining the action. After a fierce fight she struck her colours and was taken over by the British. Rena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Conquérant (1746)
The ''Conquérant'' was originally launched in 1746 on a design by François Coulomb the Younger. She was taken out of service in March 1764 and rebuilt at Brest as a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Career In 1778, ''Conquérant'' was under Monteil, part of the Third division in the Blue squadron of the fleet under Orvilliers. She took part in the Battle of Ushant on 27 July 1778, where Monteil was wounded. 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 Lombard, ''Ardent'' under Bernard de Marigny, ''Jason'' under La Clocheterie and ''Év ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Peuple Souverain (1792)
''Souverain'' was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She took part in the Battle of the Chesapeake, in 1781. In 1792, she was renamed ''Peuple Souverain'' ("Sovereign People"). In 1798, she took part in the battle of the Nile. A shot from (at the rear of the British line) cut her cable and she drifted out of position, later in the battle being captured by the British.Crowdy, p. 47 She was subsequently recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Guerrier'', but was in too bad a shape to serve in the high sea, so she was used as a guard ship A guard ship is a warship assigned as a stationary guard in a port or harbour, as opposed to a coastal patrol boat, which serves its protective role at sea. Royal Navy In the Royal Navy of the eighteenth century, peacetime guard ships were usual .... Citations Sources * * External links HMS ''Guerrier'' Ships of the line of the French Navy Souverain-class ships of the line 1757 ships Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Timoléon
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Battle Of The Nile
The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; french: Bataille d'Aboukir) was a major naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the Nile Delta of Egypt from the 1st to the 3rd of August 1798. The battle was the climax of a naval campaign that had raged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte. The British fleet was led in the battle by Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson; they decisively defeated the French under Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers. Bonaparte sought to invade Egypt as the first step in a campaign against British India, as part of a greater effort to drive Britain out of the French Revolutionary Wars. As Bonaparte's fleet crossed the Mediterranean, it was pursued by a British force under Nelson who had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Carrere (1801)
''Carrère'' was a French frigate that served briefly in the French navy before the British captured her in 1801, naming her HMS ''Carrere''. She seems never to have seen any meaningful active duty after her capture as she was laid up in 1802 and finally sold in 1814. French service ''Carrère'' was one of two 38-gun frigates that were building on the stocks in Venice in May 1797, when Napoleon took the city during the Campaign of Italy.Troude (1867), p. 66. Pierre-Alexandre Forfait ordered the two frigates completed, which they were in August 1797 under the names ''Carrère'' and ''Muiron''. The French named ''Carrère'' after an esteemed artillery colonel who had fallen at Unzmarkt fighting the Austrians. ''Carrère'' and ''Muiron'' both served during the French invasion of Egypt in 1798. They then accompanied Napoleon on his return to France after the failure of that campaign. The captain of the ''Carrère'' was Commodore Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley, and with him travelled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Courageuse (1778)
''Courageuse'' was a 12-pounder ''Concorde'' class frigate of the French Navy. She was launched in 1778. The British captured her in 1799 and thereafter used her as a receiving ship or prison hulk at Malta before breaking her up in 1802. Career In 1790, under Captain"''Major de vaisseau''"; Fonds Marine, p.22 de Grasse-Briançon, ''Courageuse'' was part of the Toulon squadron under Poute de Nieuil.Fonds Marine, p.22 From 2 August, she ferried troops and civil commissioners to Corsica, and cruised in the area before making a port call to Ajaccio and eventually returning to Toulon on 30 October.Fonds Marine, p.26 In 1792, under Captain de La Croix de Saint-Vallier, ''Courageuse'' sailed off Smyrna, Saloniki and Tripoli, returning to Smyrna on 6 December.Fonds Marine, p.33 In January 1793, she escorted a convoy to Marseille, and from there returned to Toulon, arriving on 12 May.Fonds Marine, p.52 ''Courageuse'' took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver in the winter of 1794-1795 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Of 18 June 1799
The action of 18 June 1799 was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought off Toulon in the wake of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798. A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Perrée, returning to Toulon from Syria, met a 30-ship British fleet under Lord Keith. Three ships of the line and two frigates detached from the British squadron, and a 28-hour running battle ensued. When the British ships overhauled them, the French frigates and brigs had no choice but to surrender, given their opponents' overwhelming strength. Background In the opening moves of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798, the French Navy's Toulon squadron, under Vice-admiral Brueys, embarked a 40,000-man force and rushed to land them in Egypt. The landing of the Army, under General Bonaparte, proceeded well and the French Army scored successes against the Ottomans and the Mameluks. However, the Royal Navy, under Admiral Nelson, obliterated most of the naval squadron at the Battle of the Nile. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Navy Officers
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