Édouard-Thomas de Burgues, comte de Missiessy (French pronunciation: [edwaʁ tɔmɑ byʁɡ də misjesi]; 23 April 1756, Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence...

to recapture the fort in 1806 but failed. French Admiral Édouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy raided the island and succeeded in blowing up the powder...

to reinforce the ships of Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and Édouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy, but he was blockaded by the British navy. Ganteaume held...

to St. Kitts.: 108 : 161–164  In 1804, the French Admiral Édouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy and General La Grange forced Nevis and St. Kitts to pay ransoms...

naval officers had become more talented and one, Admiral Pierre André, Comte de Suffren, proved to be a brilliant opponent in the Indian Ocean (Second Anglo-Mysore...

of a division of the squadron under the orders of Admiral Édouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy. In April 1818 he moved to Toulon as general major of the...

was the 25-year-old assistant zoologist François Péron. Captains: Nicolas Thomas Baudin (1754–1803) (Géographe) and Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin (1768–1839)...

hoped that Carnot might draw 3,000 marines and sailors from Edouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy's French squadron that was bottled up in the Scheldt. When...

of French Guiana in 1643, to the present day. (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) Politics of French Guiana History of French...

Bonaventure, comte de Mesnard, pair de France, first squire of Madame la duchesse de Berri. Édouard-Thomas, comte Burgues de Missiessy, vice-amiral. Prelates :...