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.
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, 1832
Truguet as a ship-of-the-line captain in 1792
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Vice-Admiral Pierre César Charles Guillaume, marquis de Sercey was a French Navy officer and politician who served in American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and Haitian R
Laurent Jean François Truguet
…naval forces. This operation proved to be a complete fiasco. He organized and sent a division of frigates into the Indian Ocean under the command of Sercey. He strove to force French colonies to implement the Law of 4 February 1794 which abolished slavery, and supported the creation of a collège intended…
Combat des frégates françaises La Nymphe et L'Amphitrite contre le vaisseau anglais L'Argo (11 février 1783), oil on canvas, by Pierre-Julien Gilbert, 1837, Musée de l'Histoire de France.
Vue de l’incendie de la ville du Cap-Français, 21 juin 1793, painted engraving by Jean-Baptiste Chapuy, 1794, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Le Combat de la Preneuse, Auguste Mayer, Quesnel-Morinière Museum.
Sercey's name inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, west pillar, column 40.