biography
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Tourville, Anne Hilarion de Contentin, comte de (Count of)
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pronunciation:
[toorveel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1642–1701)
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| biography:
| Naval commander, born in Château Tourville, Manche, NW France. From a noble family, he entered the Royal Navy in 1666, took part in Louis XIV's war against the Dutch (1672–8), and was promoted to lieutenant-general (1682). In 1689, at the outbreak of the War of the Grand Alliance, he prevented an invasion of Brittany, and was promoted to vice-admiral of the Mediterranean fleet and naval commander-in-chief. He defeated the Anglo-Dutch fleet off Beachy Head (1690). An attempt to rescue an ill-planned landing in England failed at the Battle of La Hogue, but his conduct made him Marshal of France (1693). |
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