Claude Eugène Chauchouart de Lavicomté[Note 1] ( — Hector, Battle of the Saintes, 12 April 1782)[1] was a French Navy officer. He served in the War of American Independence.

Biography

Lavicomté was born at Saint-Malo. He joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine on 11 June 1748. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 15 January 1762, and to Captain on 10 May 1777.[1]

He was killed at the Battle of the Saintes on 12 April 1782.[1][2]

Sources and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Also written "La Vicomté".[1]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lacour-Gayet (1910), p. 646.
  2. ↑ Marley (1998), p. 522.

References

  • Lacour-Gayet, Georges (1910). La marine militaire de la France sous le règne de Louis XVI. Paris: Honoré Champion. pp. 431–434.
  • Marley, David (1998). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. ABC-CLIO. p. 343. ISBN 0874368375.

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