Bouille in Prague

Bouille in his later years

The Battle of Grenada

The Battle of Grenada took place on 6 July 1779 during the American War of Independence in the West Indies between the British Royal Navy and the French Navy, just off the coast of Grenada. The British fleet of Admiral Jack Byron had sailed in an attempt to relieve Grenada, which the French forces of the Comte D'Estaing had just captured.

Incorrectly believing he had numerical superiority, Byron ordered a general chase to attack the French as they left their anchorage at Grenada. Because of the disorganized attack and the French superiority, the British fleet was badly mauled in the encounter, although no ships were lost. Naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan described the British loss as "the most disastrous ... that the British Navy had encountered since Beachy Head, in 1690."^[2] Despite the French victory, d'Estaing did not follow up with further attacks, squandering any tactical advantage the battle gave him.

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The second battalion, which was at la Martinique since November 20, 1775, went to Saint-Domingo in 1777. The fourth battalion, which was at Calais in June, 1776, left at the end of that year for Bordeaux, and there embarked the 25th September, 1777, to rejoin the second battalion. The regiment remained in garrison at the Cape until 1779. That year it was placed on board of vessels of the fleet of Count d'Estaing, and the 15th September to 20th October was at the siege of Savannah. The companies of chasseurs coveted themselves with glory, the 9th of October, at the attack on the retrenchments. The sublieutenant LEVERT was the first to enter the entrenchments, whose defenders, astonished at such audacity, fled, throwing away their arms. The English, nevertheless, returned more numerous, and the brave Gatinois companies, without support, having lost the half of their number, were obliged to retire. They withdrew in good order, carrying off their dead and wounded, among whom the Viscount de Béthizy, colonel en second, with three wounds, in the left hand, the right arm, and in the stomach; Captain Sireuil, wounded with a biscaïen [musket shot] in the side; Captain de Foucault, knocked down by the concussion from a cannon ball; Lieutenant De Justajmont, killed outright; Chevalier de la Roche-Negley, who had received a biscaïen shot in the head and was later 'trepanned'; Chevalier de Tourville, wounded by a ball which passed from the right breast (téton) to the shoulder; sublieutenant Levert had his clothes riddled with bullets.

Bouille and Dominica

REVUE D'HISTOIRE DE L'AMÉRIQUE FRANÇAISE courant de ce qui se passe dans l'île, ayant entretenu une correspondance suivie avec Thomas Chabaud Arnault, un imprimeur français qui demeure à Roseau où il a été pendant plusieurs années curateur des biens de l'Eglise. Cette charge lui avait été confiée par les Anglais au lendemain de la conquête.4 De Bouille sait donc que les Britanniques ont construit des fortifications à divers points de l'île, qu'ils disposent "de la meilleure artillerie au monde" — 164 canons et 24 mortiers — et qu'ils s'affairent à dresser des batteries à Cachacrou, à Charlotteville ou Newton et à Roseau. Il sait aussi que ces nouvelles installations ne pourront résister à une attaque terrestre parce qu'elles ne sont pas terminées.5 Enfin, il a appris que les quelques troupes régulières de la garnison dominicaine n'ont pas été renforcées et qu'elles comptent à peine "une cinquantaine d'hommes bons pour le service".6 Alors, sachant ses forces navales inférieures à celles

Bouillé again

"Terro and Horro in Dominica." StudyMode.com. 04, 2013. Accessed 04, 2013. http://www.studymode.com/essays/Terro-And-Horro-In-Dominica-1647427.html. THE ROSEAU CATHEDRAL and a time of terror and horror in Dominica part IX The French occupation from (1778-1784). by Bernard Lauwyck In my previous article I described several factors, such as hurricanes, war, naval blockades and privateers, which made the 5 years of the French occupation one of the most miserable times in Dominica’s history. Marquis Duchilleau, the first French governor, was depicted by English history writers such as James Atwood as the culprit of all ills and misery that befell Dominica. It is said “History is written by victors or winners”. Bishop James Moris wrote in his “History of the Diocese of Roseau”: “Several stringent laws were passed against the British Colonists. As a result the population decreased both rapidly and considerably. In 1780 there remained only 1566 Europeans, 14713 slaves and 543 free people of colour.” Compare this civil population with the 1527 French soldiers stationed in the island by July 1781 (« Etat de la Situation des Garnisons, AN, Colonies C8 A 80 »). This large garrison had to be fed by the local economy. We know from Joseph Alfred Boromé in his book “ La Dominique pendant l’occupation française (1778-1784)” that the 2/3 majority of the “Europeans” or whites were French settlers or their descendants. One of Duchilleau first move was to appoint a few of them to the local Assembly. This body consisted of English freeholders only before the French invasion. The French appointees were Nicolas Crocquet de Belligny, Collart D'Auchamps, Edme Desabaye, John Baptiste Bernard Serrant. The free people of colour; mulattos, coloured tradesmen from Martinique/ Guadeloupe and free blacks, remained a stable presence during the French occupation at about 550 persons. The publication “MONTGOMERY MARTIN’s THE BRITISH COLONIES” stated that in 1763, at the start of the first English occupation, Dominica had 5872 slaves, which was increased in 10 years of English occupation and the development of sugar cane plantations

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