The French expedition to Sardinia was a short military campaign fought in 1793 in the Mediterranean Sea in the first year of the War of the First Coalition, during the French Revolutionary Wars. The o
Contemporary print of the French bombardment of Cagliari during the expedition
1832 portrait of Truguet as a ship-of-the-line captain in 1792
Drawning of the French attack
Vice-Admiral Laurent Jean François Truguet was a French Navy officer and politician who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
French expedition to Sardinia
…the south and La Maddalena in the north both ending in defeat. The operation was launched by the French Mediterranean Squadron, led by Counter-admiral Laurent Jean François Truguet, under instructions from the National Convention. The government had issued orders to invade Sardinia, strategically important to the Mediterranean…
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, 1832
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