• Chef d'escadre (pronounced [ʃɛf dɛskadʁ]; literally "squadron commander") was a rank in the French Navy during the Ancien Régime and until the French Revolution...
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    général des Armées navales Bougainville Chef d'escadre d'Entrecasteaux Chef d'escadre Dumont d'Urville Chef de Division Lapérouse Captain Samuel de Champlain...
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    battle). The Second Division of the White-and-Blue squadron was under Chef d'Escadre Étienne-Pierre de Rochechouart, with his flag on Duc de Bourgogne, who...
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    commanded by a capitaine. Chef d'escadre - the ancien Régime equivalent of rear admiral rank. (in French) "Niger : le chef d'escadron Salou Djibo, "président"...
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    Guns Commander Casualties Notes Killed Wounded Total Escadre bleue (Chef d'Escadre de Bougainville) 3rd Division Hercule 74 Chadeau de la Clocheterie  †...
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    Bellechauve, baron de Beauville, 1st marquis de la Ferté-Beauharnais, chef d'escadre des armées royales, and governor of the French colony of Martinique...
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    dɔminik sɔʃɛ ʃəvalje detuʃ]; 7 October 1727 – 23 December 1793) was a Chef d'Escadre in the French Navy. He is most widely known for his participation in...
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    twenty-fifth lance in the escadre, that of the squadron commander (chef d'escadre). The newly established Burgundian Ordonnance companies were almost...
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    granted to him in 1707. His nephew, Francis V de Beauharnais, was made chef d'escadre des armées royales, then governor of Martinique. The Beauharnais of...
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    (Chevalier de Tambonneau, killed) Pompeux 72 (Chevalier de Valbelle, chef d'escadre) Lys 74 (Lieutenant-Général Marquis Guillaume d'Alméras, killed; flag-captains...
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    Chef d'escadre de la Jonquière's fleet Ship Guns Commander Notes Diamant 30 Captain Toussaint Hocquart [fr] Captured Philibert 30 Captain Jacques Lars...
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    Saint Eustace after the defeat of Comte de Grasse. He was promoted to chef d'escadre. When he re-entered the French Army, he was commissioned as maréchal...
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  • 25 March 1765, renamed Chef de Division on 1 January 1786. It was senior to Capitaine de vaisseau, and junior to Chef d'escadre. The rank of Brigadier...
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  • commodore in the early period, like an English commodore or a French chef d'escadre, was an officer (generally, but not exclusively, a captain) assigned...
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    on 1730 in Amsterdam.[citation needed] Memoires de M. du Gué-Trouin, chef d'escadre des armées de S.M.T.C. et grand-croix de l'Ordre militaire de S. Louis...
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    Surville Auguste 80 Captain Castellan (flag captain) 10 58 68 Van flag, Chef d'Escadre Bougainville Saint-Esprit 80 Captain Chabert-Cogolin  (WIA) Caton 64...
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    train to Yorktown. Louis Antoine de Bougainville was a rear admiral (Chef d'escadre), explorer and former army officer. He commanded several ships and squadrons...
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    of the army on July 25, 1762, d'Estaing was also given the rank of chef d'escadre (rear admiral) in the French Navy in recognition for his exploits, a...
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  • was a French naval officer from a Breton noble family. His final rank was chef d'escadre. Bulletin de la Société Académique de Brest, 1890, p. 237 v t e...
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    he captured three ships and sank another one. In 1707, he was made a Chef d'Escadre (Rear-Admiral). On 12 May he captured a British convoy of 18 ships en...
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  • d'Argelos commanded the 80-gun Auguste in Brest, as flag captain under Chef d'Escadre Rochechouart. He commanded the 74-gun Palmier at the Battle of the Chesapeake...
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    Chevalier de Cogolin Arrogant 38 M. de Villeneuve-Ferriere Superbe 70 (Chef d'escadre Des Rabesnières, killed in battle) Invincible 70 Comodorre de Verdille...
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    des armées navales; Antoine Alexis de Perier de Salvert (1691-1757) chef d'escadre, commander of Saint Louis, director of the Dépôt des cartes et plans...
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    forcing that city to surrender. This earned him a promotion in rank to chef d'escadre (Rear-Admiral), a castle, and a gift of the entire isle of Indre, Loire-Atlantique...
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    d'Éoux 10 9 19 Hippopotame 50 Henri de Rochemore 2 10 12 Redoutable 74 Chef d'Escadre Pierre-André de Glandevès du Castellet 12 39 51 Sage 64 Captain Duruen...
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    promoted to Captain in May 1756. The year after, he was promoted to Chef d'Escadre. After France entered the War of American Independence, Guichen was...
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  • Chateauvert was born to Thérèse-Marie Giraudy de Piosin-Montauban and Chef d'Escadre André Beaussier de Châteauvert. His brother, Pierre André Beaussier...
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    received three years of training in the navy. In 1776, he held the rank of Chef d'Escadre, and commanded one of the three divisions of the Escadre d'évolution...
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    Bay. Randwick & District Historical Society Inc; "les deux commandants en chef, eux, ne se rencontrèrent pas"; Association Salomon (Nouméa, New Caledonia)...
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  • His reputation at the French Court was such that he was appointed as chef d'escadre in the French Royal Navy in 1667. Louis, however, was disenchanted with...
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