Fleet of Montmorency led by Augustin de Beaulieu 1619 1622

Augustin de Beaulieu (1589–1637) was a

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general, who in 1619 led an armed expedition to the East Indies composed of three ships (275 crews, 106 cannons) and called the "Fleet of Montmorency", after its sponsor the Admiral Montmorency.''Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book 1''

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Born at

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, Augustin de Beaulieu studied science and navigation. He participated in other expeditions before the 1619 one, and, in 1612 he sailed to

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''Cambridge geographical series'' p. 60 In 1616 he joined an expedition to Far East, the East as captain of a small ship in the fleet led by Captain De Nets. de Beaulieu again sailed in 1619. The fleet was sent from Honfleur, to fight

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in the Far East, and to establish trade with the sponsorship of traders from

and Paris. Beaulieu made a noted description of Cape Town during the year that England occupied it. The fleet visited

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, which allowed Beaulieu to write one of the best accounts of Aceh in the early 17th century.''First globalization: the Eurasian exchange, 1500 to 1800'' Geoffrey C. Gunn p. 15

/ref> Beaulieu met with Sultan

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(1607–36) to obtain a trading license and the agreement to establish a factory. They encountered the Dutch fleet off

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. One ship was captured, another remained in Asia for inter-country trade, and the third returned to Le Havre in 1622. In 1624, with the Treaty of Compiègne,

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obtained an agreement with the Dutch to cease fighting in the East.''Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book 1'' by

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/ref> de Beaulieu advocated for a French settlement on Madagascar, but Richelieu refrained from the adventure for fear of annoying the Dutch. It was only in 1665, with the establishment of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, that a proper attempt would be made to settle the island. Beaulieu wrote in 1631-32: de Beaulieu participated to the Siege of La Rochelle with the Royal fleet in 1627–28, as well as in the capture of

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''A new general biographical dictionary'' by Hugh James Rose p. 439 He died of

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in Toulon in 1637.

Works

*''Mémoires d'un voyage aux Indes orientales, 1619-1622'', École française d'Extrême-Orient, aris/ Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris, 1996 (Pérégrinations asiatiques)

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