Jean-Jacques Magendie
Jean-Jacques Magendie (born May 21, 1766 in Bordeaux , † March 26, 1835 in Paris ) was an officer in the French Navy . He was the captain of the famous sailing warship Bucentaure in the Battle of Trafalgar under Vice Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve .
Life
family
Jean-Jacques Magendie was born on May 21, 1766 in Bordeaux (Gironde) to Jacques Magendie and Marie-Anne Bienvenu. On September 28, 1795 he married Raymonde Deschazeau in Bordeaux.
Service in the French Navy from 1793
After numerous professional positions with nautical relevance, which also took him to Martinique , St. Lucia and Guadeloupe , he was stationed in Brest in 1793 as a lieutenant in the service of the French Navy .
On August 23, 1793 he was on board a corvette that was brought up by two British frigates. The four-hour battle led to the mast being dismasted and the subsequent sinking of the ship; Magendie was captured by the British.
After his return to France on March 21, 1796, he was transferred to Rochefort . Here he performed his service on the frigate Tartu , with which he was sent to military campaigns off Ireland from 1796–1797 . After a storm and a skirmish with the HMS Polyphemus on December 31, 1796, France lost the frigate Tartu to the British; Magendie was captured again. In 1798 he returned to Rochefort from captivity. On September 14, 1799, he arrived on the frigate L'Africaine under the command of Captain Lapalisse , who was called to participate in a mission in Santo Domingo . Due to the illness of Lapalisse, he then led the frigate L'Africaine as a substitute until it returned to Rochefort - here Captain Saunier took over the ship, under whose command Magendie was henceforth served. The L´Africaine was involved in a night battle with the British frigate HMS Phoebe near Gibraltar on February 19, 1801 . 130 dead and 186 wounded were recorded as a result of the battle - among the injured was Magendie, who suffered a head wound and was taken back into British military imprisonment. Released from captivity, he returned to Toulon on March 25, 1801 via Menorca . On September 11, 1801, Magendie was ordered to Ancona to board the frigate Minerve . With her he drove several patrols in the Mediterranean , especially in the Adriatic . Magendie later took part with the Minerve on expeditions to Santo Domingo and in the attack on the Fort of Port-de-Paix .
The commander of Santo Domingo appointed Magendie as captain on January 8, 1803. On October 27, 1803 he was given command of the Bucentaure , a 3rd rank ship of the line under Admiral Latouche-Tréville , who died on board. Magendie took part with the Bucentaure in campaigns in the Antilles as well as in the naval battle of Cape Finisterre on July 22, 1805.
Under Vice Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve Magendie finally sailed with the Bucentaure in the battle of Trafalgar against Lord Nelson's British fleet. In this battle, the Bucentaure was shot at by several ships, including Nelson's flagship HMS Victory , at the same time, so that the French crew lost 400 men of crew for further fighting. Magendie was one of the injured and suffered another head injury. Magendie as well as Villeneuve fell into British captivity.
On February 1, 1806 Magendie returned to France.
Magendie also worked in Lisbon , La Rochelle , Port-Vendres , Paris and Antwerp .
Magendie died on March 26, 1835 at 9 rue de Lafayette in Paris and was buried in a cemetery in the north of the city.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spanish article on Captain Magendie , accessed on December 1, 2008, freely translated in excerpts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Magendie, Jean-Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Officer in the French Navy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1835 |
| Place of death | Paris |