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Louis Lhéritier
Louis Lhéritier (17 June 1747 – 15 December 1823Quintin, pp.242 — 243) was a French Navy officer. He most notably took part in the Glorious First of June and the Battle of the Raz de Sein. Career Early career Lhéritier joined the Navy as a sailor in 1763, serving on the frigate ''Malicieuse'', on ''Sceptre'' and ''Hirondelle'' the following year, before returning on ''Malicieuse'' until 1766. Promoted to helmsman, he embarked on ''Union'' in August 1766, and later on the frigates ''Légère'' and ''Indiscrète''. Again promoted assistant pilot, he served on the fluyts ''Gave'', ''Dorothée'' and '' Africain''. From 1770, Lhéritier worked in the merchant Navy first as an officer on ''Bellecombe'', ''Coureur'' and ''Concorde'', and as third captain on ''Solide'', as ensign on ''Normande'', and as first officer on ''Ville d'Arkhengelsk'' from 1776 and 1778. War of American Independence He returned to the French Royal Navy for the War of American Independence with a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commodore (rank)
Commodore is a senior naval rank used in many navies which is equivalent to brigadier and air commodore. It is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral. It is either regarded as the most junior of the flag officers rank or may not hold the jurisdiction of a flag officer at all depending on the officer's appointment. Non-English-speaking nations commonly use the rank of flotilla admiral, counter admiral, or senior captain as an equivalent, although counter admiral may also correspond to ''rear admiral lower half'' abbreviated as RDML. Traditionally, "commodore" is the title for any officer assigned to command more than one ship, even temporarily, much as "captain" is the traditional title for the commanding officer of a single ship even if the officer's official title in the service is a lower rank. As an official rank, a commodore typically commands a flotilla or squadron of ships as part of a larger task force or naval fleet commanded by an admiral. A commodo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Raz De Sein
The Battle of the Raz de Sein was a single-ship naval engagement of the blockade of Brest during the French Revolutionary Wars between a French and Royal Navy ships of the line on 21 April 1798. The British blockade fleet under Admiral Lord Bridport had sailed from St Helens on 12 April and on the morning of 21 April was crossing the Iroise Passage when sails were spotted to the east. Three ships were detached in pursuit, led by the 74-gun ship of the line HMS ''Mars'' under Captain Alexander Hood. As the British ships approached their quarry a third sail was sighted to the southeast close to the coastline and moving north towards Brest. This ship was the 74-gun '' Hercule'' under Captain Louis Lhéritier, newly commissioned at Lorient and sailing to Brest to join the main French fleet and the British squadron immediately changed direction to intercept the new target. Facing overwhelming odds L'Héritier attempted to escape through the narrow ''Raz de Sein'' passage, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1823 Deaths
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1747 Births
Events January–March * January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. * February 11 – King George's War: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers, attacks and defeats British troops at Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. * March 7 – Juan de Arechederra the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines, combines his forces with those of Sultan Azim ud-Din I of Sulu to suppress the rebellion of the Moros in the Visayas. * March 19 – Simon Fraser, the 79-year old Scottish Lord Loyat, is convicted of high treason for being one of the leaders of the Jacobite rising of 1745 against King George II of Great Britain and attempting to place the pretender Charles Edward Stuart on the throne. After a seven day trial of impeachment in the House of Lords and the verdict of guilt, Fraser is sentenced on the same day to be hanged, drawn and quartered; King George alters Fraser's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourbon Restoration In France
The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the first fall of Napoleon on 3 May 1814. Briefly interrupted by the Hundred Days War in 1815, the Restoration lasted until the July Revolution of 26 July 1830. Louis XVIII and Charles X, brothers of the executed king Louis XVI, successively mounted the throne and instituted a conservative government intended to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien Régime. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France but were unable to reverse most of the changes made by the French Revolution. Exhausted by decades of war, the nation experienced a period of internal and external peace, stable economic prosperity and the preliminaries of industrialization. Background Following the French Revolution (1789–1799), Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler of France. After years of expansion of his French Empire by successive military victories, a coaliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brest, France
Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental France. With 142,722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest forms Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area (with a population of 300,300 in total), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 19th most populous city in France; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the ''préfecture'' (regional capital) of the department is the much smaller Quimper. During the Middle Ages, the history of Brest was the history of its castle. Then Richelieu made it a military harbour in 1631. Brest grew around its arsenal unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pock Mars Hercule
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Prisoner-of-war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons, such as isolating them from the enemy combatants still in the field (releasing and repatriating them in an orderly manner after hostilities), demonstrating military victory, punishing them, prosecuting them for war crimes, exploiting them for their labour, recruiting or even conscripting them as their own combatants, collecting military and political intelligence from them, or indoctrinating them in new political or religious beliefs. Ancient times For most of human history, depending on the culture of the victors, enemy fighters on the losing side in a battle who had surrendered and been taken as prisoners of war could expect to be either slaughtered or enslaved. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Nymphe (1782)
''Nymphe'' was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy. Career In January 1783, ''Nymphe'' was in the Caribbean, with . On 7, they captured the corvette HMS ''Raven''. On 17 February of the same year, ''Nymphe'' was with the 32-gun when she captured the 44-gun . On 20 January 1785, ''Nymphe'' arrived at Brest, ferrying Lafayette. In July 1792, she was under Coëtnempren de Kerdournan. Along with and , she sailed to Cayenne to ferry troops, as well as the new governor, Frédéric Joseph Guillot. She then returned to Lorient and was put in the ordinary. In July 1793, ''Nymphe'' was brought into active again under Lieutenant Pitot to fight the Chouan royalist insurgency. Fate On 30 December 1793, ''Nymphe'' was wrecked while battling Chouan coastal artillery near Noirmoutier Noirmoutier (also French language, French: Île de Noirmoutier, ; br, Nervouster, ) is a tidal island off the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of France in the Vendée Departments of France, departmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Languedoc (1766)
The ''Languedoc'' was a 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy and flagship of Admiral d'Estaing. She was offered to King Louis XV by the Languedoc, as part of the '' Don des vaisseaux'', a national effort to rebuild the navy after the Seven Years' War. She was designed by the naval architect Joseph Coulomb, and funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Estates of Languedoc. Construction Ordered in Toulon, ''Languedoc'' took several years to complete due to a lack of timber in the shipyard, already busy building ''Zélé'' and ''Bourgogne'', and with the orders for the 74-gun ''Marseillois'' and the 64-gun ''Provence'' in queue. Career In 1773, she was under Apchon. War of American Independence In 1778, France decided to intervene in the American War of Independence, and the Anglo-French War broke out. Vice-amiral d'Estaing was ordered to take the fleet to the Americas. He set his flag on the ''Languedoc'', after her upgrade to 90 guns. His 12-ship fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Guerrier (1753)
The ''Guerrier'' was a ''Magnifique'' class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She took part in the Battle of Minorca (1756) and in the Battle of Lagos. She was part of Bougainville's squadron for the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, and took part in the operations before the Battle of Rhode Island, in the Battle of Grenada, and in the siege of Savannah. In July 1781, she took part in the Invasion of Minorca. On 9 August, she captured the 700-tonne HMS ''Scarborough''. By the time of the invasion of Egypt, ''Guerrier'' should have been decommissioned for two years, , by François-Guy Hourtoulle, Napoleon.org but was nevertheless incorporated in the invasion fleet. She took part in the |
