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BOUVET, FRANCOIS JOSEPH (1753—1832)

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BOUVET, See also:FRANCOIS See also:JOSEPH (1753—1832) , See also:French See also:admiral, son of a See also:captain in the service of the French See also:East See also:India See also:Company, was See also:born on the 23rd of See also:April 1753. He went to See also:sea at the See also:age of twelve with his See also:father. Bouvet served in the East Indies in the famous See also:campaign of 1781—83 under the command of Suffren, but only in a subordinate See also:rank. On the outbreak of the French Revolution he very naturally took the See also:anti-royalist See also:side. See also:Murder and See also:exile had removed the See also:great See also:majority of the See also:officers of the See also:monarchy, and the services of a See also:man of Bouvet's experience were valuable. He was promoted captain and received the command of the " Audacieux " (8o) in the first great See also:fleet collected by the re-public. In the same See also:year (1793) he was advanced to See also:rear-admiral, and he commanded a See also:division in the fleet which fought the See also:battle of the 1st of See also:June 1794 against See also:Lord See also:Howe. Until the See also:close of 1796 he continued in command of a See also:squadron in the French Channel fleet. In the See also:December of that year he was entrusted with the See also:van division of the fleet which was sent from See also:Brest to See also:attempt to See also:land See also:General See also:Hoche with an expeditionary force in the See also:south of See also:Ireland. The stormy See also:weather which scattered the French as soon as they See also:left Brest gave Bouvet a prominence which he had not been designed to enjoy. Bouvet, who found himself at daybreak on the 17th of December separated with nine See also:sail of the See also:line from the See also:rest of the fleet, opened his See also:secret orders, and found that he was to make his way to Mizen See also:Head. He took a wide course to avoid See also:meeting See also:British cruisers, and on the 19th had. the See also:good See also:luck to fall in with a considerable See also:part of the rest of the fleet and some of the transports.

On the 21st of December he arrived off Dursey See also:

Island at the entry to See also:Bantry See also:Bay. On the 24th he anchored near See also:Bear Island with part of his fleet. The continued storms which blew down Bantry Bay, and the awkwardness of the French crews, made it impossible to land the troops he had with him. On the evening of the 25th the See also:storm increased to such a See also:pitch of violence that the See also:frigate in which Bouvet had hoisted his See also:flag was blown out to sea. The See also:wind moderated by the 29th, but Bouvet, being convinced that none of the See also:ships of his squadron could have remained at the anchorage, steered for Brest, where he arrived on the 1st of See also:January 1797. His See also:fortune had been very much that of his colleagues in this storm-tossed expedition, and on the whole he had shown more See also:energy than most of them. He was wrong, however, in thinking that all his squadron had failed to keep their anchorage in Bantry Bay. The See also:government, displeased by his precipitate return to Brest, dismissed him from command soon afterwards. He was compelled to open a school to support himself. See also:Napoleon restored him to the service, and he commanded the squadron sent to occupy Guadaloupe during the See also:peace of See also:Amiens, but he had no further service, and lived in obscurity till his See also:death on the 21st of See also:July.1832. Tronde, Batailles navales de la See also:France, vols. ii. and iii., and See also:James, See also:Naval See also:History, vols. i. and ii., give accounts of the 1st of June and the expedition to Ireland. There is a vigorous See also:account of the expedition in Tronde's See also:English in Ireland, and it is dealt with in Admiral See also:Colomb's Naval Warfare.

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