Ange René Armand de Mackau

Admiral de Mackau

Ange René Armand de Mackau (born February 17, 1788 in Paris , † May 13, 1855 there ) was a French admiral and politician .

Life

Ange René Armand de Mackau's family had come to Paris with Jacob II . The son of Ange René Armand de Mackau was Armand de Mackau.

De Mackau was 1805 midshipman , graduated in 1808 in Rochefort (Charente-Maritime) , and was given command of a post of the Coast Guard . On the frigate Hortense he was deployed in the Mediterranean in 1810 .

On May 26, 1811, under his command , the brig l'Abeille brought the British brig l'Alacrity to Bastia off the coast of Corsica . As a reward, Mackau was promoted to lieutenant, accepted into the Legion of Honor and given command of the captured brig. De Mackau had more ships brought in and was promoted to frigate captain in 1812 .

On September 1, 1819, he was appointed captain and sent on a study trip to Senegal . His feasibility study recommended not creating an extensive colony in Senegal and reported on the local slave trade .

In 1820 he became chamberlain to Louis XVIII. . In June 1821 he took the frigate Clorinde , (58 cannons ) diplomatic relations with the Latin American states on the Pacific, Chile and Peru , which had become independent from Spain .

On April 17, 1825, he was able to arrange compensation of 90 million French francs for the French slaveholders, who were expropriated from their slaves by the abolition of slavery in Haiti in 1822 .

On September 25, 1825, he was promoted to Rear Admiral and appointed to the Admiralty . On September 17, 1829, the head of him was human resources department of the French Navy transferred, where he met with preparing an invasion in Algeria was concerned.

On June 23, 1830 he was electoral officer in the second constituency of the Morbihan department and was elected a member of parliament.

He was sworn in to the July monarchy and in 1831 was given command of the "escadre des Dunes" ( piracy ), which occupied Antwerp , Dunkirk and Vlissingen and from there blocked the Dutch ports.

In Cherbourg-Octeville , de Mackau was given command of the naval units of the French Antilles and the governorship of Martinique in 1836 . The French consul Adolphe Barrot was arrested in Cartagena, Colombia . De Mackau asked the government of New Granada for compensation for the treatment of the French consul. Consul Adolphe Barrot was evacuated from Cartagena with five warships and the isthmus at the Castillo de San Luis de Bocachica was blocked, thus enforcing the claim for compensation.

From May 30, 1837 de Mackau was back in the naval staff. De Mackau inspected fishing operations in the French overseas territories of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and Newfoundland . He secured commercial and strategic interests of the French government in the Caribbean and Atlantic from the United States government.

In 1838 he returned to France with his family from Martinique. His ship, the frigate Terpsichore , got caught in a heavy storm that landed the ship in the port of the Irish city of Cork .

In 1840 Armand crossed the Río-de-la-Plata estuary with 43 warships and on October 29, 1840, agreed a shipping and trade agreement with Felipe Arana, which was an error of explanation , since Juan Manuel de Rosas ruled Argentina .

On October 29, 1845 De Mackau was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and promoted to Admiral on December 23, 1847.

predecessor	Office	successor
Emmanuel Halgan	Governor of Martinique 1836 to January 1838	Claude Rostoland
Albin Roussin	French Colonial and Navy Minister July 24, 1843 to May 9, 1847	Louis Napoléon Lannes

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association des Archives des Antilles, Actes de la seconde Conférence des Archives antillaises (Guadeloupe et Martinique, Octobre 27-31, 1975), Saur, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-598-21002-7 , p. 90.