Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806) was a French Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary...

passage. The allied fleet, under the command of the French admiral, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, sailed from the port of Cádiz in the south of Spain on 18 October...

French canoeist Noble Villeneuve (born 1938–2018), Canadian politician Pierre Devilleneuve, French canoeist Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763–1806), French...

ensure a safe passage for the Grande Armée. Commanded by Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, the allied navy went down to Cape Trafalgar, where they encountered...

who died on board on 18 August 1804, and later of Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve as the flagship of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar...

British fleet attacked the French rear, forcing Contre-amiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve to pull away for the mouth of the bay. Four French ships were...

passage. The allied fleet, under the command of the French admiral, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, sailed from the port of Cádiz in the south of Spain on 18 October...

January 1805, the French fleet, under the command of Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, escaped Toulon and eluded the blockading British. Nelson set...

collaborated with directors like Jean-Marc Vallée, Charles Binamé, Christian Duguay, Allan Moyle, and Denis Villeneuve, working on such films as Black List, The...

Gottfried August Bürger, German poet and academic (d. 1794) 1763 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806) 1776 – Johann Spurzheim, German-American...

illness before he had a chance to use it. Under his successor Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, the fleet he had refurbished was annihilated at the Battle of...

2016-2017 Drunk History: UK Royal Society Lecturer / Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve / Edward Wilson Comedy Central 3 episodes 2016-2018 Upstart Crow...

Revolutionary Wars. On 1 April 1795, Maximilian succeeded his brother Charles II as Duke of Zweibrücken, however his duchy was entirely occupied by revolutionary...

(1747–1792) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain (1745–1792), daughter of Charles III of Spain. Francis was born in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, where...

(1722 – 11 March 1806), the daughter of Pierre Loubières and his wife Jeanne Viellescazes. Murat's father, Pierre Murat-Jordy, was the son of Guillaume...

place so they could keep up with him. Hortense bore Louis's sons Napoléon Charles Bonaparte and Napoléon Louis Bonaparte in Paris, while Louis was in Holland...

Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen (German: Erzherzog Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz von Österreich, Herzog von...

Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve (French pronunciation: [ʒil vil.nœv]; 18 January 1950 – 8 May 1982) was a Canadian racing driver, who competed in Formula...

under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering...

Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974) Rey, Marie-Pierre. Alexander I.: the Tsar who defeated Napoleon (2012) Troyat, Henri. Alexander...

passed to his brother, Charles X. Louis XVIII was the last king or emperor of France to die a reigning monarch: his successor, Charles X (r.  1824–1830) abdicated;...

Western Approaches. The Toulon and Brest fleets (under Admirals Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume respectively) could then rendezvous...

plan to lure the British fleet away. Accordingly, in March 1805, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, the French commander, evaded the blockade and headed for the...

with fine artillery crewed by experienced professional soldiers. Archduke Charles, brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army...

1805 to 1807, he temporarily served in the French Navy under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve. On August 11, 1813, he assumed command of Pyrenees-Orientales...

Society for French History (1998), Vol. 25, pp. 49–54 Alexander Grab and Charles F. Delzell, "The Kingdom of Italy and Napoleon's Continental Blockade,"...

rear division of the line was under the command of Contre-amiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve in Guillaume Tell. In deploying his ships in this way, Brueys...

Charles XIV John (Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first...

the Italian throne and then, after Joseph's refusal, his nephew Napoléon Charles, the son of Louis Bonaparte and Eugène's sister, Hortense. However, both...

Villeneuve OQ (French: [ʒɑk vilnœv]; born 9 April 1971) is a Canadian former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1996 to 2006. Villeneuve...