Pierre César Charles de Sercey
Pierre César Charles de Sercey , (born the April 26th 1753 with the castle of the Play, parish of Comelle-under-Beuvray diocese of Autun, died with Paris, the August 10th 1836) Knight then marquis de Sercey. Wire of lord Jean Jacques de Sercey count of the Play and of lady Marie Marguerite Duvrest. Entered at thirteen years the navy, it had been marine guard with Brest, the 1770. It continues to be useful under the Révolution. Denounced at the revolutionary Committee, it is stopped during the Terreur. Released after Thermidor, its command will be returned to him.
Since 1796, the commander of the French naval forces in the Indian Ocean was the Rear-admiral of Sercey whose buildings were based on the island of France (Mauritius). He had 7 frigate S: the Strong one, the Seine, Cybèle, the Virtue, Regenerated, the Careful one, and the Taking one. In October of this year, the French squadron was with Batavia or the French admiral had gone to negotiate with the regency of the island a treaty to supply the island of France out of rice. On the way of the return, the January 23rd 1797, after having crossed the strait of Bali, the French buildings unfortunately let escape an important British convoy from the Compagnie of the Indies and, at the beginning of March, they were again with the island of France.
On the received instructions of France and which prescribed to him, under cover of a help to be brought to the Dutchmen, to unload troops with Batavia and to settle in the country to raise the natives against Holland and to support, thanks to the revolutionary ideas, an establishment of our influence, the admiral de Sercey again installed for Batavia at the end of the summer 1797. It unloaded approximately thousand troops accompanied by two police chiefs of the people charged to spread the novel ideas and turned over shortly after to the island of France. On his arrival, the admiral de Sercey found two ambassadors of Tippo-Saïb, king of Mysore in India and which, faithful combined France, continued the fight against the English, in spite of the reverses and the capitulation of Lally-Tollendal to Pondichéry in 1761.
It had been named Rear-admiral on January 1st 1793, Vice-amiral the May 28th 1814, grand' cross of the Légion of honor and large cross of Saint-Louis the October 30th 1828.
Reprocessed in 1804, will withdraw itself with the island of France (Maurice).
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