Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume

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Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume (born April 13, 1755 in La Ciotat , Bouches-du-Rhône , † September 28, 1818 in Aubagne ) was a French admiral .

Live and act

When he was fourteen, Ganteaume came to live with his father, who was the captain of his own ship. He remained under his command until 1781 and sailed for some time on behalf of the Mississippi Company . In 1779 he was hired by the Royal Navy together with his father and his ship "Le Fier Rodrigue" . They escorted a convoy of Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte to North America . Then they were under the command of Charles Henri d'Estaing and fought in the American War of Independence a . a. off Grenada (July 6, 1779) and Savannah (September / October 1779).

After the Peace of Paris (September 3, 1783) they were again allowed to pursue their economic interests by royal decree. In 1783 their ship was arrested by the Royal Navy while on a voyage for the Mississippi Company and Ganteaume and his father were captured.

After his release, he returned to France and entered the French Navy with the rank of lieutenant . When the revolution broke out in 1789, he was soon able to distinguish himself through bravery and in 1794 he joined Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse's staff as captain . Under his command he fought u. a. in the sea ​​battle on the 13th Prairial (June 1, 1794) and was wounded several times.

After another promotion, he moved to the staff of Admiral Pierre Martin and took under his command u. a. at the Îles d'Hyères (July 13, 1795).

At the end of 1797 Ganteaume began a few months of patrol service on the coasts of France, but he succeeded in May of the following year as chief of staff with Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers . When Napoleon Bonaparte was planning his campaign in Egypt in 1798 , Ganteaume also took part under Brueys d'Aigalliers' leadership. In the sea ​​battle at Abukir (August 1-2, 1798) Ganteaume was able to distinguish itself as well as in the battles off Jaffa (March 1799) and Akkon (March / May 1799).

In August 1799 Ganteaume brought Napoleon and his staff safely back to France. After his putsch (November 9, 1799) he appointed Ganteaume to the Navy Ministry and appointed him to the Council of State.

In 1802 Ganteaume was commissioned by Napoleon to bring troops to reinforce General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc's expeditionary army to Saint-Domingue ( Haiti ).

In 1808 Ganteaume was appointed inspector general of all coasts and, as an important member of the Admiralty , Ganteaume was also minister of the navy for a short time.

After Napoleon's abdication and the Treaty of Fontainebleau (April 11, 1814) Ganteaume sided with King Louis XVIII. During Napoleon's reign of the Hundred Days , he stayed on the side of the Bourbons . After the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) and Napoleon's final abdication, Ganteaume devoted himself mainly to political tasks. One of his last tasks was the court martial against Marshal Michel Ney , in which he spoke out in favor of the death penalty on December 6, 1815.

A short time later, Admiral Ganteaume retired into private life and settled in Aubagne.

Honors

literature

  • David G. Chandler : The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (unchanged reprint of the London 1966 edition)
  • Hubert Granier: Histoire des marins français, Vol. 1: 1789-1815 . Marines Éditions, Nantes 1998, ISBN 2-909675-41-6 .
  • Charles Mullié: Dictionnaire des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, vol. 1 . Poignavant, Paris 1852.
  • Georges Six: Dictionnaire biography des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814, Vol. 1 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1934 edition)
  • Jean Tulard (Ed.): Dictionnaire Napoléon, Vol. 1 . Fayard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-213-60485-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ganteaume, Honoré Joseph Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French admiral
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH La Ciotat , Bouches-du-Rhône department
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1818
Place of death Aubagne , Bouches-du-Rhône department