Captain Faure (Gilbert-Amable)
Born: 5 April 1755
Entered naval service either commercial or military position: 1779
Captain de fregate: 5 September 1796
Captain de vaisseau 2nd class: 22 September 1796
Captain de vaisseau 1st class: 23 September 1800
Member of the Legion d’Honneur: 5 February 1804
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur: 14 June 1804
Wounds recieved while in the service of France: None
Died: 31 December 1812
The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
Captain Jérôme Bonaparte
Jérôme was born in Ajaccio, Corsica the eighth and last surviving child, fifth surviving son, of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino. He was a younger brother of his siblings: Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lucien Bonaparte, Elisa Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, Pauline Bonaparte and Caroline Bonaparte.
He studied at the Catholic College of Juilly, and then served with the French Navy in command of the Vétéran 74 before going to the United States. On 13 December 1805, captained by Jérôme Bonaparte, she departed Brest as a unit of Willaumez division, in the context of the Atlantic campaign of 1806. The division was scattered by a hurricane and Vétéran found herself isolated. She cruised off Quebec, destroying merchantmen and skirmishing with Royal Navy forces. She eventually returned to France and escaped the British blockade by fleeing into Concarneau, thanks to the experience of a sailor who had been a fisherman in the region.
The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
Captain Bretel (Jacques-Francois-Ignace)
Born: 30 July 1764
Entered naval service either commercial or military position: 1781
Captain de fregate: 27 September 1796
Member of the Legion d’Honneur: 14 June 1804
Died: ?
The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
Captain Langlois (Jean-Jacques)
Born: 28 October 1769
Entered naval service either commercial or military position: 1784
Captain de fregate: 1805
Member of the Legion d’Honneur: 14 June 1804
Wounds received while in the service of France: 1800
Died: 17 July 1829
Last edited by Bligh; 08-24-2017 at 03:13.
The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
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