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    Vice-Admiral Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (29 May 1747 – 24 July 1812) was a French Navy officer and politician. Born in Auch, after serving in the...
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    fleeing garrison had not spiked, against the French. Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, who had become Governor-General in September 1802, was still...
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  • Cherbourg, and also in the colonies, such as Fort Saint Louis in Martinique and Port Louis in Île-de-France, which were humbler versions of the three great...
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    French battlefleet was also known to be at sea, under Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse. Howe sent Pasley, recently promoted to rear-admiral, and his...
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    Lord Howe's Action, or the Glorious First of June (category Paintings by Philip James de Loutherbourg)
    Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg of the victory of British naval forces under Lord Howe over a French force led by Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse on the Glorious...
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    attack on the French colony of Martinique, governed by Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, was planned. Neptune became the flagship of the expedition's...
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    protected by the French Atlantic Fleet, commanded by Rear-Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse. The two forces clashed in the Atlantic Ocean, some 400 nautical miles...
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    original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022. de Rambaud, Guy (2002). "Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse". histoire-empire.org. Archived from the original...
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    February – Étienne-Louis Malus, military officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (born 1775) 24 July – Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, admiral (born...
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    French). Retrieved 13 April 2020. Johnson, Kenneth Gregory. "Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse: Admiral and colonial administrator (1747-1812)" (PDF). Florida...
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    late Revolutionary period battles of Castricum and Pozzolo. Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, admiral. Jean Lafitte, French-American pirate and privateer...
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    Battle of Groix against the French under Rear Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse off the Île de Groix and captured three ships. He was much criticized...
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    birthplace of: Jacques Fouroux (1947–2005), rugby union player Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (1750–1812), admiral Dominic Serres (1719–1793), painter Reginald...
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  • Fort Desaix (category Fort-de-France)
    Court of Inquiry in Paris in December 1809 stripped Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, the Governor General of Martinique, and some of his subordinates...
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    bride were the French admiral Pierre André de Suffren and Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse. This marriage made her the sister-in-law of Georges-René Pléville...
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    original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022. de Rambaud, Guy (2002). "Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse". histoire-empire.org. Archived from the original...
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    the French neglected to act. The governor of Martinique, Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, ordered work to begin on building a road to the coast opposite...
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  • (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) Martinique Politics of Martinique World Statesmen - Martinique Lt. Governor Bennett of Bermuda...
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    to man its large navy. The French Atlantic Fleet, under Admiral Villaret de Joyeuse, was tasked with keeping the British Channel Fleet occupied long...
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  • 1802). Bertin shared control of the island with Rear Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse as captain general and Le sieur Lefessier-Grandpré as grand...
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    operating as a scout in the search for the French fleet under Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse. On 1 June 1794, Cooke was a witness to the battle of the Glorious...
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    royalists. On 3 September, Vaublanc, with his colleague Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse and other clichiens, was a hair's breadth from achieving a...
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    Montagne, the flagship of the French commander Rear-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, and the Jacobin. During the battle Howe ordered Bowen to turn...
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    during the summer of 1808 the island's governor, Vice-amiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, sent urgent messages back to France requesting supplies and...
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    however, convince either Lagrange or the Captain-General of Martinique, Villaret-Joyeuse, of the merits of his proposal. It was agreed instead to attack the...
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  • Hood, which in June 1795 came across a French fleet under Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, and which included the captured Alexander off Groix. The Alexander...
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    Troude, Batailles navales, p. 270 Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France. Challamel ainé. Comte Louis Thomas VILLARET DE JOYEUSE...
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    magazine was breached on 24 February, at which point Governor Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse surrendered unconditionally. Troude was wary on his arrival...
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    the return voyage. During this, a French fleet under Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse was intercepted by a British fleet under Lord Howe, and a series...
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  • Atlantic campaign of May 1794. When the French fleet, under Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, was sighted, Howe ordered an attack, with Molloy leading the...
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