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    Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (29 May 1747 – 24 July 1812) was a French Navy officer and politician. He was born in Auch. After serving in the Indies...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 captured in 1806. The French Navy took her into service as Villaret, but renamed her Rapide. She then became the model for a class of advice...
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    (Year V of the Republic), he was given a division in a squadron under Villaret-Joyeuse for an expedition to Ireland, with 15 ships of the line, 12 frigates...
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    Hugues Alexandre Joseph Meunier (category Knights of the Order of Saint Louis)
    known as the Army of the Coasts of the Ocean. Soon Hoche, Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse and Laurent Truguet put him in command of a planned expedition...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Lord Bridport on 21 June. A French fleet under Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse looked to attack the British, and Bridport ordered Standard...
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