Charles Julien Fanneau de Lahorie

Charles-Julien Fanneau de Lahorie , born the April 27th 1758 with Javron and dead the July 23rd 1822 with Cayenne, is a navigator French.

Origin

Charles-Julien Fanneau de Lahorie belongs to a family of Justice of the Peace to Couptrain, drawing his title from nobility of a ground of Ferté-Macé. He is the second of a family of sixteen children of Charles-Julien Fanneau de Lahorie and Marie Jeanne Renee the Miller of Bignon.

One of these brothers, Victor Claude Alexandre Fanneau de Lahorie will be Général of Empire, and mingled with conspiracies against Napoleon i. Louis-Michel Fanneau de Lahorie, Colonel of Cavalry, made a score of military campaigns under the Republic and the Empire, including that of the Countryside of Russia.

Initiation with the sea

In 1769, it accomplishes its first voyage of sea on the tradind ships of the Havre in the capacity as volunteer. It continued until in 1774. In 1774, its family requests her admission with the Body of the Pupils of the Marine established in Le Havre under the orders of the captain Holy-Cézaire. He is admitted and received in June 1774. He sailed in this quality on the royal vessels intended for the service of the colony until June 1776.

America

At that time he requests a patent of Sous-lieutenant of Infanterie, with permission to go to be used for the the United States. He goes there with passport and letter of introduction of Benjamin Franklin. Arrived at Boston the December 4th 1776, it is immediately incorporated in the body of infantry of colonel Chansay, belonging to the Army of the Green General. It will join the army with Washington, where it is received lieutenant while arriving at the regiment. It is useful in this Body and in this quality until August 1777, where it is promoted with the rank of Capitaine until November of the same year.

Its prevalent taste for the navy commits it to request near the Congress its approval to take again the service of sea, which was granted to him by preserving its row in the army. It seems that his/her brother Henri who presented the same states of services usurped his identity to claim with the master's certificate.

Navy

In December 1777, it takes the command of a brig of war armed with 20 guns of 6" , with which it is sent to cross with the the Antilles January 1778 until October of the same year. It takes and led in the ports of the Martinique and the Guadeloupe 34 catches British. In November 1778, it leaves Saint-Pierre-of-the-Martinique to take again its navigation; returned with the wind of Antigua, it meets a British frigate of 36 guns of 12". After a eight hour old combat, it is forced to go and is led to Antigua. Few days after its arrival in Antigua, it escape and go to Martinique, where it remains for one month; it embarks then on an American corsair to go to the United States to make there relative judge its control with the loss of the ship which had been entrusted to him. On its request, the Congress named a commission. It was judged that its control was not only irreproachable but that it received the approval of the commission in what it had crossed successfully against the enemies of the United States, and which it had supported “ a honourable combat for the house against the English frigate ”. On this report/ratio addressed to the Congress, it accepted from it a letter of satisfaction and the patent of lieutenant-colonel.

The Antilles

The war being declared between France and the Great Britain, its duty and its inclination carried it to devote its life to the service of its Fatherland. It exposed to the Congress the desire that it had to return to the service of France, that it was for still serving the United States since France was their firmer support. It then receives a flattering letter of adhesion to its request, its confirmation of my rank of Lieutenant-colonel in the army of the United States of America, and the Cross of the “order of Cincinnatus”. In May 1779, it goes to Martinique where it finds the count Charles Henri d' Estaing, généralissime of the forces of ground and sea to which it offers its services. In June 1779, the general wished to form a body of “Flibustiers Volunteers of the Antilles”. He named of it the Knight of Castling-Percins, ordering colonel, and Horie lieutenant-colonel second in command, and charged them with the recruitment of this body. At the end of July, it was composed and made of 500 men intended for the unloadings for the conquest of British Isles. It is used under the orders of Estaing for the conquest of the islands as Saint-Vincent, the Grenade, where it with the left leg broken by a grapeshot, and Tobago. At the beginning of the General for France, the Body remained under the orders of the marquis de Bouillé, general commander-in-chief with the Windward Islands. Its Body was employed by the Marquis of Bouillé and under its orders with the seats and catches of British Isles of Saint-Christophe, Montserrat. These last conquests having finished the countryside with the Isles of the Wind by the retirement of the naval armies with Saint-Dominique, Bouillé decided to lay off the Body of Lahorie. It returns to France in March 1782.

Coastal traffic

After peace, he requests faculty to return in his family, faculty obtained in 1783. He goes to Saint-Dominique for businesses of family and remains until in 1789 there. He went of this colony to Martinique. where it remained until December of the same year. It arrived at Paris the January 30th 1790 and there remains until in 1792. Its property of St Dominique being destroyed, and without fortune in France and not having more row of the army, it requested of the Minister for the Navy, under the terms of her old services, the rank of sign-of-vessel. It obtains it, with the order to go to Brest to take there the command of the Aviso the Butterfly . This forwarding having received counter-order, it goes to Paris to solicit Government the government of the Senegal. This place was already given. In May 1790, it is Armateur owner of the goélette Industrie . In September, it goes to Bordeaux and Paris for steps. In October 1792, it receives the order to go to Brest to await later orders there. It receives in November the order of loading on the corvette the Blonde , intended to carry to Cayenne the Civil Police chief, and to carry there the order of command of the colony to the general Benoist, former artillery colonel. Part in March 1793, forwarding for Cayenne arrives in May.

Guyana

It accepts with reserve the place of Lieutenant Général of the Government with Cayenne and the Guyana the June 7th 1793 after the resignation of Monge, 1st Minister for the new mode. It arrives on the Blonde with Jeannet (nephew of Danton). April 1st 1794, it is named ordering Navy. It enters in dissension with Jeannet and gives its resignation the April 12th 1794. In 1795, it returns in France. It is taken by the squadron of the admiral Nottham and conduit with Gibraltar. It was plundered of all that it had. From Gibraltar, it goes to Marseilles, and from there with Paris.

The July 26th 1797, it is the publication of the decree of Abolition of slavery, Horie is stopped for, says it “ disobedience to the orders counter-revolutionaries ” and thanks to an enemy informer, the Jeannet police chief, whom he will then accuse of embezzlements. It leaves for the Nouvelle York then the Nouvelle England on Insipid the as prisoner. It goes then to the Surinam, then in France. In 1802, it returns to Cayenne (letter of Thermidor 6 An X) where it is fixed on its properties, only occupied with agriculture.

In 1809, at the time of the entry of the Portuguese in Cayenne, it agrees a place To advise at the Court of Appeal until in 1811. It receives the Cross of Saint Louis the September 19th 1814. In 1818, it obtains the command of the district of Marcouria, richest and populeux of the colony.

Family

He would have married a Desprez young lady, of the Arrow, of which he would have had a son died in 22 years without descent. After would the death of his first wife, it have married (the September 14th 1814?) in Cayenne a young lady Victoire (or Henriette) Barthelemy died at 23 years the May 20th 1820 without child. He withdraws himself then with Tomate where he bought the property My Desire in the Marcouria district with Approuage. He dies the July 23rd 1822 in Cayenne. In spite of a posterior death to that of his wife, they are parents of this one who will inherit all his goods and will sell his property in 1846. A gold mine would have been worked there towards 1930.

See too

Family Fanneau de Lahorie

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