page_title: Julien Cosmao
section_title: Late career
hierarchical_section_title: Julien Cosmao / Career / Late career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le Romulus, Capitaine Rolland, division du contre-amiral Cosmao&#160;; chargé de protéger l'entrée dans le port de Toulon du vaisseau Le Scipion venant des chantiers navals de Gêne. Le Romulus étant en serre-file fut pris sous les feux croisés de la Boyne (Pellew) et du Caledonia. Le capitaine du Romulus utilisa sa connaissance des fonds pour rentrer dans la baie de Toulon avec un navire très endommagé par les canons britanniques. Le Scipion parvint intact à Toulon. English: Fight of the Romulus
context_page_description: Julien Marie Cosmao-Kerjulien was a French Navy officer, admiral, and hero of the Battle of Trafalgar.
context_section_description: Cosmao-Kerjulien was made Rear Admiral on 29 May 1806. He took command of a division of the French Mediterranean Fleet, under Ganteaume from 1807. he took part in operations to resupply Corfu and to the landing in Sicily. His 4 ships, having sustained damage, retreated to Taranto.
  In late 1809, Ganteaume was organising reinforcements to Barcelona. Cosmao set his flag on Robuste and took command of a squadron comprising Donawerth, Génois, Borée and Lion, as well as the frigates Pauline and Pénélope, and a dozen of transports. The fleet departed Toulon on 24 April 1809, and returned on 1 May without incident.
  Cosmao was made baron in 1810. In August 1811, he served under Admiral Missiessy in the Escaut Squadron, commanding a division, with his flag in the ship-of-the-line Tilsit.
  In 1813 he returned to the Mediterranean Fleet, where he commanded a 5-ship division, with his flag on the Wagram. At the Action of 5 November 1813, he saved the 74-gun Agamemnon and the frigates Pénélope and Melpomène which were under threat to be surrounded by superior English forces.
  In February 1814, he set sail with three ships from Toulon to Genoa, threatened by the Austrians, to bring back the Scorpion. He escaped the forces of Admiral Pellew and successfully returned to Toulon on the 10th with the Scorpion without losing a ship, though the Romulus, at the rear, did suffer some damage.
  During the First Restoration, in April 1814, Cosmao-Kerjulien received command of the Mediterranean Fleet, and was appointed a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis. In 1815, upon the Emperor's brief return to power, he rallied to Napoleon, who made him préfet maritime of Brest in March, and a Peer of France in June, right before the Battle of Waterloo.
  Cosmao-Kerjulien was retired on 1 January 1816, and for one year he did not receive a pension.  At the time of his retirement, he was 55, with 25 year in campaigns, and 11 battles without once being wounded or captured. He died at 64, on 17 February 1825.
  Five paintings of him can be seen in the town house of his home town of Châteaulin, in the Finistère.
caption: Fight of the Romulus
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