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    Étienne Eustache Bruix (Fort-Dauphin, Saint-Domingue, 17 July 1759 – Paris, 18 March 1805) was a French Navy officer and admiral, and Minister of the Navy...
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  • (1846–1931), French military cryptanalyst Étienne Eustache Bruix (1759–1805), French Navy admiral Étienne Clavière (1735–1793), Swiss-born French financier...
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    Brueys wrote a letter describing the situation to Minister of Marine Étienne Eustache Bruix, reporting that "Our crews are weak, both in number and quality...
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  • to fought in the Spanish American Wars of Independence. Son of Étienne Eustache Bruix, Admiral of the French Navy. Alexis was in the Napoleonic campaigns...
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    This flotilla was initially under the energetic command of Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix, but he soon had to return to Paris, where he died of tuberculosis...
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  • improvement of navigational instruments, and its graduates included Étienne Eustache Bruix. The institution disappeared temporarily from 1764 to 1769, at the...
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    famed French Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix (1759–1805) by renaming a portion of Boulevard Lannes as Boulevard de l'Amiral-Bruix. Bruix, who was a Vice admiral...
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  • 1799 when the bulk of the French Atlantic Fleet under Vice-Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix departed the base at Brest, evading the British Channel Fleet which...
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    Paul Barras, Jean-François Reubell, Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, Étienne-François Le Tourneur and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès were chosen as Directors...
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    François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac Preceded by Étienne Eustache Bruix Ministers of Marine and the Colonies 1799 Succeeded by Marc Antoine...
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    de Bruix (or Bruix' expedition of 1799) was a naval campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars. Planned and commanded by French Vice-Admiral Étienne Eustache...
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    to warn Jervis at Gibraltar. The French fleet under Vice-Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix, which had escaped on 25 April, comprised 25 ships-of-the-line and...
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    Franco-Spanish force of 42 ships under Admirals Étienne Eustache Bruix and Jose Mazarredo, and set out to sea on 10 July. Bruix' expedition evaded Keith, and reached...
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    turrets were protected by 92 millimeters of armor. Bruix, named after Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix, was laid down at the Arsenal de Rochefort on 9 November...
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    French Atlantic Fleet, commanded by the Minister of Marine Admiral Étienne Bruix, had entered the Mediterranean and was at Toulon, Bonaparte learned...
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    leaders who were not amongst the 26 marshals of the First Empire: Étienne Eustache Bruix (1759–1805), a French admiral; Jean Simon [fr] (1912–2003), a distinguished...
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    studies, in 1798, he entered the navy as a midshipman with Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix. In 1799 he was appointed midshipman. He assisted in the blockade...
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    scheme was vociferously opposed by Contre-amirals Kerguelen and Étienne Eustache Bruix who argued that in such a position the British would be able to...
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  • 4 March - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter (born 1725) 18 March - Étienne Eustache Bruix, sailor (born 1759) 19 June - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, painter...
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    Mediterranean and the appearance of a French fleet under Admiral Etienne Eustache Bruix in the Western Mediterranean all contributed to lapses in the blockade...
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    1802) but instead forcibly re-embarking them for France. Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix won Magon's reappointment and a few months later Magon rose to chef...
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    Total Peuple First rate 120 Vice-amiral Villaret de Joyeuse Captain Étienne Eustache Bruix Captain Jacques Angot  † Représentant Jean-Nicolas Topsent [fr]...
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    the ship assisted in the tracking of the French fleet of Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix, and in 1800 she participated in the blockade of Cadiz. In 1803...
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    of praising his resistance from Minister of Marine Rear-Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix. In Britain, Butterfield was promoted to commander, and Hood was...
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    supplies from Toulon. In May, a major French expedition under Admiral Etienne Eustache Bruix entered the Western Mediterranean, forcing Nelson to recall his...
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    martialled and initially condemned by the Minister of Marine Étienne Eustache Bruix. Bruix believed that the ship had been too easily surrendered and publicly...
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  • chasing the escaped fleet of Étienne Eustache Bruix from Brest to the Mediterranean. This chase having concluded when Bruix reached Cadiz, Egmont returned...
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    landing craft. In France the newly appointed Minister of Marine Étienne Eustache Bruix ordered a second attempt on the islands soon afterwards but the...
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    July 1797 Georges René Le Peley de Pléville 15 July 1797 27 April 1798 Eustache Bruix 27 April 1798 4 March 1799 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 7...
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