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Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'Hermite

Contre-amiral
Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'Hermite
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Contre-amiral Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'Hermite, portrait by Antoine Maurin.
Born 29 September 1766
Coutances, Manche
Died 28 August 1826(1826-08-28) (aged 59)
Plessis-Picquet
Allegiance French First Republic
First French Empire
Louis XVIII
Service/branch French Navy
Years of service 1780–1816
Rank Contre-amiral
Commands held

Seine
Preneuse
Brutus
Alexandre
Vengeur
Régulus
Ville de Varsovie

Ville de Marseille
Battles/wars

American War of Independence

French Revolutionary Wars

Empire

L'Hermite's expedition
Awards

Baron of the Empire
Legion of Honour
Order of Saint Louis

Name engraved on the Arc de Triomphe

Seine
Preneuse
Brutus
Alexandre
Vengeur
Régulus
Ville de Varsovie

American War of Independence

French Revolutionary Wars

Empire

Baron of the Empire
Legion of Honour
Order of Saint Louis

Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'Hermite (Coutances, Manche, 29 September 1766 — Plessis-Picquet, 28 August 1826) was a French sea captain and rear admiral, notable for his involvement in the Glorious First of June and his expedition into the Atlantic in 1805.

L'Hermite was born to the family of a counselor to the Bailiwick and Présidial of Cotentin. He joined the Navy in 1780, at the age of 14 as a novice on the coast guard cutter Pilote-des-Indes, cruising the English Channel, and on which he distinguished himself during the capture of an English privateer off Chausey.


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