Armand Joseph Bruat

Armand Joseph Bruat , Admiral French, born with Colmar on March 27th 1796, died in 1856.

Born in Alsace in 1796, it entered to the service in 1811, on board the Vaisseau-école of Brest, where it was noticed for its boldness become proverbial.

In 1815, it made a campaign with Copenhagen, the Brésil and the the Antilles, on the brig Hussard .

In 1817, it was used for edge of the corvette the Hope , which held three years the station of the Raising, and was named ensign.

Of 1819 with 1824 he was officer of operations on the Conqueror , Striking down it , and on the frigate the Diane .

In 1824, it made a hard campaign in the South Sea, on board Diligent the , and contributed to the catch of the pirate celebrates Quintanilla. With the return, it was made Lieutenant, and was embarked on the Breslaw as officer of operation.

In 1827, it is Breslaw which, with Navarin, released the Russian admiral, forced the vessel who fought the Albion to cut his cables and to throw himself to the coast, and made run the frigate that mounted the Turkish admiral and another frigate. Bruat was decorated for its control in this action.

The following year it obtained the command of the brig Silène , it was on this brig that it went to cross until under the forts of Algiers, and to carry out many catches for port. It was also whereas while following the commander of Assigny, which mounted the brig the Adventure , it made shipwreck on the coasts of Africa. On 200 men of the French crew 110 were massacred. The remainder was saved only by the devotion and the energy of the two captains.

Bruat, prisoner in Algiers, made pass to the admiral Duperré a note on the state of the place. This act exposed it to the greatest dangers.

Since 1830, the military career of the Bruat captain was more active. It was attached to the station of Lisbon. It is in the Tage that in May 1838 it accepted its nomination of Captain, and passed under the orders of the admiral Lalande on board Iéna , and became its captain of house. It is in this quality that it ordered this vessel of 92 guns and made the Campagne of Raising.

From Iéna , it passed on the Triton under the admiral Hugon, in July 1841 left it, and belonged to the council of work of the marine with Toulon.

It was called, in 1843, with the government of the Marquesas Islands and with the command of the naval subdivision.

It was then named governor of the establishments of Oceania. It succeeds, in spite of the intrigues English are, to make accept by the queen of Tahiti, Pomaré the Protectorat of France, was named in 1849, governor of the the Antilles, maintained the order and work in the colonies, in spite of the recent emancipation of the slaves, was called in 1854, during the Campagne of the Crimea, to take the command in chf French fleet, and was characterized by a bold forwarding in the Mer from Azov, like by the taken of Kinburn (October 15th 1855).

His wife was controlling children of France.

He died of the cholera in 1856 and its body was buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise

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