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.The French Navy and the Seven Years' War by Jonathan R. Dull p.48 On 16 March 1757 his squadron captured the 50-gun , commanded by Captain Robert Roddam, off Saint-Domingue.Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World by David Marley p.278

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).Encyclopedia of the French & Indian War in North America, 1754-1763 by Donald I. Stoetzel p.61 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.Musée de la Marine exhibit

See also Franco-Ottoman alliance

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