Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
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Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve was a French Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was in command of a Franco-Spanish fleet whic
1850 portrait of Villeneuve
1805 cartoon of Villenueve onboard HMS Euryalus after Trafalgar
Bucentaure was an 86-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, and the lead ship of her class. She was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Latouche Tréville, who died on board on 18 August 1804, and later of
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
…the combined fleets were intercepted by Nelson off Cape Trafalgar. Nelson, though outnumbered, won the Battle of Trafalgar, and Villeneuve's flagship Bucentaure was captured along with many other French and Spanish ships. The British sent Villeneuve to England in HMS Euryalus but released him on parole; during…
Bucentaure
Bucentaure at Trafalgar