Édouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy
French sailor
Vice-Admiral Édouard-Thomas de Burgues, comte de Missiessy (French pronunciation: [edwaʁ tɔmɑ byʁɡ də misjesi]; 23 April 1756 – 24 March 1837) was a French Navy officer. He joined the navy in April 1766 as a volunteer aboard his father's ship and spent most of his early service in the Mediterranean, in the frigates of the Levant Fleet. When France entered the American Revolutionary War, Missiessy joined the 64-gun Vaillant in Admiral Charles Henri Hector, Count of Estaing's fleet, where he took part in the initial engagements off Newport, Saint Lucia and Grenada, and in September 1779, the failed siege of Savannah. Missiessy's first command came in 1782 when he was promoted to ship-of-the-line lieutenant on the cutter Le Pygmée. He was soon after captured by the British but later released in a prisoner exchange.
In 1789, the year of the outbreak of the French Revolution, Missiessy was a frigate captain in the Mediterranean. Promoted to ship-of-the-line captain in January 1792, he received the command of the ship Centaure in Vice-admiral Laurent Jean François Truguet's squadron. In January 1793, he was promoted to counter admiral. The Revolution became more radical and Missiessy was arrested on 21 May 1793 for being of noble birth. He was released and returned to duty on 30 June but when Toulon declared for the King, Missiessy fled to Italy.
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