Mémoires sur la marine : manuscript, 1787-1788.

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Mémoires sur la marine : manuscript, 1787-1788.

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Manuscript volume of reports on the Navy concerning among other things the control of harbors and ports, etc.; written in various hands, together with table of contents at front.

1 bound ms.

Princeton University Library

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Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Henri-Hector d'Estaing was born in Ravel, France, on November 24, 1729, the son of Charles-François d'Estaing, the Marquis de Salliant, and Marie-Henriette Colbert de Maulevrier. He served as a military officer during the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. He spent most of the latter conflict in India, where he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1762, and was governor of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) from 1764-1766. D'Estaing was promoted to vice admiral i...