Étienne Eustache Bruix

Étienne Eustache Bruix (* 1759 in Fort Dauphin in Saint- Domingue, † March 18, 1805 in Paris) was a French naval officer.

The son of a respected family from Béarn hired, in 1786 on a slave ship under Captain Jean -François Landolphe. In 1778 he was Garde de la marine and experienced his first battles on the frigate Fox and on the Concorde. He served in several squadrons which supported the United States in their war of independence.

As commander of the Pivert Bruix and Puységur were in charge of mapping tasks to Saint- Domingue. 1791 Bruix member of the Académie de Marine, and on January 1, 1783 was appointed captain - but then dismissed in October 1794 because of his aristocratic descent from the service. As a result, wrote the treatise Moyens d' approvisionner la marine par les productions du territoire français seules in which he pleaded for the self-sufficient supply of the French Navy.

This thesis is interested Napoleon Bonaparte. Bruix was taken 1795 in the Navy and commanded the first Éole. In the wake of the French landing operation in Ireland Bruix was promoted to Rear Admiral, on 28 April 1798 he was Secretary of the Navy

He personally took command of the fleet, which broke through the British naval blockade of Brest to sail towards Egypt, assisted at the siege of Genoa ( 1800), but had to turn back due to weather conditions and under pressure from the British.

Bruix was determined by Napoleon as commander of the fleet, which was to carry out the invasion of England. Bruix but died during the preparations of tuberculosis.

The Boulevard de l' Amiral- Bruix in Paris, part of the Boulevards des Maréchaux, is named after him.

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• Étienne Eustache Bruix, in Charles Mullie, biography of célébrités militaires of Armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, 1852