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Jean-Marie Dutertre
Jean-Marie Dutertre (1768 in Lorient – 1811Gallois, p. 412), also called Jean Dutertre, was a French privateer. His ships included ''Modeste'', ''Heureux'', ''Passe-Partout'' and ''Malartic''.Gallois, p. 405 Career In September 1796, Dutertre set out for a campaign on the 20-gun ''Modeste'', which had previously been captained by Robert Surcouf under the name ''Émilie''. apparently captured her near Visakhapatnam in March 1797.Demerliac, p. 308, no 2898Demerliac (p. 308, no 2898) states that ''Modeste'' was captured either by ''Fox'' in March 1797, or by in April 1798; it appears that ''Cleopatra'' was in the English channel at the time, when she captured a privateer named ''Émilie'' but unrelated to the present ship. Duterte commissioned the privateer ''Heureux'' at Île de France in July 1798. On 4 March 1799 ''Heureux'' captured ''Solimany'', off Nagore. On 19 March the East Indiaman recaptured ''Solimany'', Captain Hamed Pelley, master, of eight guns. ''Solimany'' h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorient
Lorient (; ) is a town ('' commune'') and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France. History Prehistory and classical antiquity Beginning around 3000 BC, settlements in the area of Lorient are attested by the presence of megalithic architecture. Ruins of Roman roads (linking Vannes to Quimper and Port-Louis to Carhaix) confirm Gallo-Roman presence. Founding In 1664, Jean-Baptiste Colbert founded the French East Indies Company. In June 1666, an ordinance of Louis XIV granted lands of Port-Louis to the company, along with Faouédic on the other side of the roadstead. One of its directors, Denis Langlois, bought lands at the confluence of the Scorff and the Blavet rivers, and built slipways. At first, it only served as a subsidiary of Port-Louis, where offices and warehouses were located. The following years, the operation was almost abandoned, but in 1675, during the Franco-Dutch War, the French East Indies Company scrapped its base in Le H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James (naval Historian)
William James (1780 – 28 May 1827) was a British lawyer and military historian who wrote important histories of the military engagements of the British with the French and Americans from 1793 through the 1820s. Career Although little is known of his early life, William James was trained in the law and began his career as an attorney. He practised before the Supreme Court of Jamaica and served as a proctor in the Vice-Admiralty Court of Jamaica from 1801 to 1813. In 1812, when war broke out between Great Britain and the United States, James was in the United States. Detained by American authorities as a British national, he escaped to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1813. This experience interested him in the War of 1812 and he began to write about it, particularly defending the reputation of the Royal Navy and pointing out the factual errors and excessive claims that American reports made against the Royal Navy. His initial literary efforts seem to have been letters written to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Privateers
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, vessels used for piracy are pirate ships. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilisations. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks. The term ''piracy'' generally refers to maritime piracy, although the term has been generalized to refer to acts committed on land, in the air, on computer networks, and (in scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
