Onésime-Joachim Troude (Brest, 31 January 1807 – Brest, 1886
) was a French Navy officer and later naval historian.
Career
Born the fourth child of
Amable Troude
Amable Gilles Troude (1 June 1762 – 1 February 1824) was a French Navy officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Early career
Troude joined the commerce navy in 1776. During the Am ...
, Onésime-Joachim Troude had a career in the
French Navy
The French Navy (, , ), informally (, ), is the Navy, maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of History of France, France. It is among the largest and most powerful List of navies, naval forces i ...
.
He took part in the
Invasion of Algiers in 1830
The invasion of Algiers in 1830 was a large-scale military operation by which the Kingdom of France, ruled by Charles X, invaded and conquered the Deylik of Algiers.
Algiers was annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1529 after the capture of Algi ...
as an ensign on the
''Aventure'', under Lieutenant Quernel, and was aboard when she was wrecked on 14 May. He survived the ordeal of the 200 marooned sailors when they were captured by Kabyles and 108 were decapitated.
He later rose to the rank of
Capitaine de frégate. In 1854, he married Sophie Hamon; together, they had two daughters: Émeline in 1855 and Gabrielle in 1856.
In 1867, he published a four-volume ''Batailles navales de la France'', mimicking
William James' plan for his ''Naval history of Great Britain''.
characterises them as promoting
commerce raiding
Commerce raiding is a form of naval warfare used to destroy or disrupt logistics of the enemy on the open sea by attacking its merchant shipping, rather than engaging its combatants or enforcing a blockade against them. Privateering is a fo ...
and states that they remain a classic to this day.
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French naval historians
French Navy officers from Brest, France
1807 births
1886 deaths
French male non-fiction writers