Charles Baudin
See also: Baudin
Charles Baudin , French admiral, born in 1784 with Paris, wire of the conventional Pierre-Charles-Louis Baudin (of the the Ardennes).
Biography
As from 1800, it takes part as a Aspirant of second class on the Géographe in the voyage towards the South Seas of Nicolas Baudin.
Teach aboard frigate Piedmontese the , it assisted in 1808 with a combat against the English in the sea of the Indies, and it had the right-hand man carried by a ball, but did not continue any less to be useful.
Lieutenant in 1812, it ordered the brig the Fox ; it accepted the order to escort, with small a goëlette for preserve, a convoy of fourteen buildings charged with naval ammunition, in destination for Toulon. Started from Genoa the June 11th, the convoy was constantly badgered by the many enemy cruisers which infested the the Mediterranean.
The 16, being with the height of Saint-Tropez, it fight against English vessels of higher force. This combat was worth with lieutenant Baudin the rank of Commander.
It left the service with the re-entry of the Bourbon S. the Restauration put it in non-activity, but the rest weighed to him; it entered the Merchant navy. It founded with the Havre a commercial firm which ruined the Révolution of 1830.
1830 returned its shoulder pads to the captain to the long course. At the end of 1833, it was named Captain, and in 1838, thirty years after the day when it had lost an arm with the service of his country, it was promoted with the rank of Rear-admiral.
See also: War of pastry making
At that time was solved forwarding against the Mexico, it was charged in 1838, to draw revenge on acts of violence made with the Mexico against French traders. The admiral Baudin was in charge of the command of the squadron. Arrived in front of the coasts of the News-Spain with twenty-three buildings, the admiral exhausted, for one month, all the ways of conciliation.
See also: Battle of San Juan de Ulúa
It was necessary to resort to the force, and the November 27th 1838, the frigate amirale Néréide , Glory and Ephigénie , and bombard them the Cyclops and the Vulcan , opened a terrible fire against Saint-Jean-with Ulloa, fortress looked at impregnable by the Mexicans, and who orders the port and the city of the Veracruz. It is the Bataille of San Juan de Ulúa.
Mr. Baudin was named Vice-amiral the January 22nd 1839. In 1840, it accepted the cord of commander and was invested of a military and diplomatic mission close to the République of Buenos-Surfaces, as well as command as a chief of the naval forces in the seas of the South America.
It had just been high by Napoleon III with the dignity of Admiral when he died in 1854. Protesting, it was elected president of the central council of the churches reformed by its co-religionists.
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