André-Charles de La Jaille

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André-Charles, marquis de La Jaille (or Lajaille) (born December 7, 1749 in Brest , France , † 1815 in Cork , Ireland ) was a French naval officer, explorer and cartographer.

biography

In the navy, La Jaille held the rank of lieutenant at sea ( Enseigne ) from 1773 and was promoted to captainleutnant ( Lieutenant de Vaisseau ) in 1778 . In 1782 he was involved in the American Revolutionary War in the attacks by La Pérouse on the British posts in Hudson Bay .

After his return to France, he set sail in January 1784 as captain of the Baïonnaise and made two exploratory trips to Senegal by 1785 . With Sylvain Meinrad de Golbéry he explored the coast from Cap Blanc to Sierra Leone and took possession of the Île de Gorée for the French government .

La Jaille was husband of Marie-Vincente de Kerguiziau de Kervasdoué (* 1755 - † 28 May 1802 in London) and lived on Roual, a country estate in Lannilis . Since 1786 he held the rank of sea captain ( Capitaine de Vaisseau ). As a result of the Revolution , he emigrated to England in 1793, before joining the royalist resistance ( Chouannerie ) as a volunteer and taking part in the Battle of Quiberon .

After the defeat of the royalists, he entered the service of Spain as captain in 1797 and served in Saint-Domingue . He was a trader in Havana and from 1798 to 1799 planter in Honduras . La Jaille died on a layover in Cork , Ireland .

Works

  • Plan de l'ile de Gore , 1784
  • Carte de la Côte d'Afrique depuis la Rivière St. Cyprien jusqu'au Cap Rouge pour servir au Mémoire de Navigation de cette partie de la Côte , 1784
  • Voyage au Sénégal pendant les années 1784 et 1785 , published 1802
    • André-Charles marquis de La Jaille: Matthias Christian Sprengel (Ed.): [ Full text in the Google book search Trip to Senegal in the years 1784 and 1787]  (= library of the latest and most important travelogues and geographical news to expand geography), Volume 7. Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, Weimar 1802.

bibliography

  • Jean Adolphe Hanoteau, Joséphine avant Napoléon: Le ménage Beauharnais d'après des correspondances inédites , Plon, 1935, p. 56
  • Paul Monneron, Alain Barres, Lapérouse et ses compagnons dans la baie d'Hudson , 2012, pp. 133-134

Web links

Wikisource: André Charles de Lajaille  - Sources and full texts

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b André-Charles de La Jaille (1749-1815) ( French ) In: BnF Data . Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  2. ↑ L. Jore: Un Canadien gouverneur du Sénégal: Louis Le Gardeur de Repentigny, 1721-1786 (suite) . In: Revue d'histoire de l'Amerique Francaise, . 15, No. 2, September 1961, ISSN  1492-1383 , pp. 257-258. doi : 10.7202 / 302114ar .
personal data
SURNAME La Jaille, André-Charles de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Jaille, André-Charles, marquis de; Lajaille, André Charles de; Lajaille, G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naval officer, explorer and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Brest , France
DATE OF DEATH 1815
Place of death Cork , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland