honorific_prefix branch death_date death_place birth_place allegiance placeofburial_label battles birth_date rank image article_title name
count french navy 28 july 1818 aubagne la ciotat france place of burial ; american revolutionary war 13 april 1755 vice admiral ganteaume.jpg honoré joseph antoine ganteaume
 honoré joseph antoine ganteaume
honoré joseph antoine ganteaume

count honoré joseph antoine ganteaume -lrb- la ciotat , 13 april 1755 -- aubagne , 28 july 1818 -rrb- was a french navy officer and vice-admiral .
ganteaume started sailing on indiamen , before serving during the american war of independence in the fleets of admiral d'estaing and suffren .
at the french revolution , he was promoted to command the 74-gun `` trente-et-un mai '' , taking part in the glorious first of june and the croisière du grand hiver .
ganteaume took part in the expedition to egypt , narrowly escaping death during the battle of the nile .
there , he formed a personal relationship with general bonaparte , who supported his promotion .
he was made a rear-admiral and given command of a squadron to supply the army of egypt , but in ganteaume 's expeditions of 1801 , he engaged in months of complicated maneuvers to elude the royal navy and eventually failed his mission .
he supplied the french forces of the saint-domingue expedition .
during the trafalgar campaign , ganteaume was to lead his squadron to the caribbean to reinforce villeneuve and missiessy , but he was blockaded by british squadrons .
ganteaume held various offices during the late first french empire , and gave his loyalty to louis xviii at the bourbon restoration .
