Jean-Jacques Magendie
Jean -Jacques Magendie ( born May 21, 1766 Bordeaux, † March 26, 1835 in Paris) was an officer in the French Navy. He was captain of the famous sailing warship Bucentaure at the Battle of Trafalgar under Vice Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve.
Life
Family
Jean -Jacques Magendie was born on 21 May in 1766 in Bordeaux (Gironde ), the son of Jacques Magendie and Marie -Anne Bienvenu. On September 28, 1795 he married Raymonde Deschazeau in Bordeaux.
Service in the French Navy from 1793
After numerous professional stations with nautical terms, which have led him also to Martinique, St. Lucia and Guadeloupe, he was stationed in 1793 as a Lieutenant in the service of the French Navy in Brest.
On August 23, 1793, he was aboard a corvette, which was applied by two British frigates. The 4 hour long battle led to Entmastung and subsequent sinking of the ship; Magendie fell into British captivity.
After his return on March 21, 1796 to France, he was sent to Rochefort. Here he was on duty on the frigate Tartu, with which he was sent to military campaigns against Ireland 1796-1797. After a storm, and a battle with the HMS Polyphemus on December 31, 1796 France lost the frigate Tartu to the British; Magendie was captured again. In 1798 he returned from captivity to Rochefort back. On September 14, 1799, he arrived on the frigate L' Africaine under the command of Captain Lapalisse, which was called to participate in a mission in Santo Domingo. Due to the illness of Lapalisse he led in representation then the frigate L' Africaine until the return to Rochefort - here took over the ship captain Saunier, under whose command Magendie henceforth was on duty. The L' Africaine was involved on February 19, 1801 at Gibraltar in a night battle with the British frigate HMS Phoebe. 130 dead and 186 wounded were recorded as a result of battle - among the injured there was also Magendie, who suffered a head wound and it again fell into British military imprisonment. Released from captivity, he returned on March 25, 1801 Menorca back to Toulon. On September 11, 1801 Magendie was ordered to Ancona to go aboard the frigate Minerve. With it, he drove several patrols in the Mediterranean, particularly in the Adriatic. Later Magendie also participated in expeditions to Santo Domingo and in the attack on the fort of Port-de- Paix with the Minerve.
The commander of Santo Domingo appointed Magendie on January 8, 1803 captain. On October 27, 1803 he was given command of the Bucentaure, a ship of the line under Admiral Latouche - 3rd rank Treville, who, however, died on board. Magendie participated with the Bucentaure in campaigns in the West Indies as well as in the Battle of Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805.
Under Vice Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve Magendie finally sailed with the Bucentaure also at the Battle of Trafalgar against Lord Nelson's British fleet. In this battle the Bucentaure of several ships, including Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, was shot at the same time, so that the French crew 400 crew forfeited for further fighting. Among the injured also Magendie, who was wearing a head injury which again belonged. Magendie as well Villeneuve fell into British captivity.
On February 1, 1806 Magendie came back to France.
Additional duty stations led Magendie to Lisbon, La Rochelle, Port -Vendres, Paris and Antwerp.
Magendie died on 26 March 1835 in the Rue de Lafayette 9 in Paris and was buried in a cemetery in the north of the city.