Antoine René Thévenard
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Antoine René Thévenard was a French Navy officer. His name is written "Henri-Alexandre Thévenard" in some English source.
, then a captain of the French East India Company
.
Thévenard commanded the Wattignies
during the Expédition d'Irlande
.
He captained the 74-gun Aquilon
at the Battle of the Nile
, where he used the spring on his anchor cable to angle his broadside into a raking position across the bow of Nelson's flagship, HMS Vanguard
, which consequently suffered over 100 casualties, including Nelson, wounded by a piece of shot in the forehead.
Thévenard was killed on the first day of the battle.
Biography
Antoine René Thévenard was born to Antoine-Jean-Marie ThévenardAntoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard
Antoine Jean Marie Thévenard was a French politician and vice admiral. He served in the French ruling regimes of Louis XVI, those of the Revolution, Napoleon I and Louis XVIII, and is buried at the Panthéon de Paris...
, then a captain of the French East India Company
French East India Company
The French East India Company was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies in colonial India....
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Thévenard commanded the Wattignies
French ship Wattignies (1794)
The Wattignies was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande in 1798 under captain Antoine René Thévenard.In July 1808, she was converted to a fluyt....
during the Expédition d'Irlande
Expédition d'Irlande
The Expédition d'Irlande was an unsuccessful attempt by the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars to assist the outlawed Society of United Irishmen, a popular rebel Irish republican group, in their planned rebellion against British rule...
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He captained the 74-gun Aquilon
French ship Aquilon (1789)
The Aquilon was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.She served off Italy under Brueys, and took part in the Battle of the Nile, where she fought HMS Vanguard, HMS Minotaur and HMS Theseus. She was captured and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Aboukir.- External links...
at the Battle of the Nile
Battle of the Nile
The Battle of the Nile was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1–3 August 1798...
, where he used the spring on his anchor cable to angle his broadside into a raking position across the bow of Nelson's flagship, HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard (1787)
HMS Vanguard was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 March 1787 at Deptford. She was the sixth vessel to bear the name....
, which consequently suffered over 100 casualties, including Nelson, wounded by a piece of shot in the forehead.
Thévenard was killed on the first day of the battle.