Joseph de Bauffremont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French naval officer
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Joseph de Bauffremont
- Joseph de Bauffremont, Prince of Listenois (1714–1781), was a member of the Bauffremont family, and a French Navy officer under Louis XIV.
- He was a commander in the Seven Years' War.
- On 16 March 1757 his squadron captured the 50-gun HMS Greenwich, commanded by Captain Robert Roddam, off Saint-Domingue.That same year, Joseph de Bauffremont brought to Louisbourg five ships-of-the-line and a frigate from Saint Domingue, permitting a strong French naval deployment that repulsed the attempts of Lord Loudon in the Louisbourg Expedition (1757).
- The British would succeed however the following year in the Siege of Louisbourg (1758). In 1766, as Lieutenant General of the Navy, was put in charge of a naval division tasked with protecting trade in the Levant.
- His flagship was the Protecteur.
- His entry into Smyrne on 28 September 1766 was depicted in an anonymous painting, now visible in the Musée de la Marine.
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